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| How the Grinch stole Christmas |
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| The Polar Express |
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| Elf |
Movies from the origin till date remains a roller coaster ride that takes over people considered the audience into a whole different world, fresh out of the imagination of someone as seen through the genres of horror, drama and science fictions
Movies permit individuals to break away from stress of daily life challenges and also educate and inform the audience. There are however other movies which emotionally exhaust the viewer such as horror and tragedies.
It’s Christmas, a time to make merry, share and celebrate. Filmmakers all over the world use this period as an opportunity to maintain their stay in business. Christmas movies come with different lessons to parents and kids alike. In an effort to bring you a Christmas package, we look through the highest selling Christmas movies ever made in the world. The rating is in terms of gross sales and franchises.
- HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Release Date: November 17, 2000
Distributor: Universal Studio
Production Budget: $123 Million
Domestic Gross: $260, 044, 825
- THE POLAR EXPRESS
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Distributor: Warner Bros
Production Budget: $165 Million
Domestic Gross: $162, 775, 358
- ELF
Release Date: November 7, 2003
Distributor: New Line
Production Budget: $33 Million
Domestic Gross: $173, 398, 518.
Away from these, Christmas movies produced in 2013 are many and diverse, amongst which three movies caught our attention. They give flare to Christmas celebrations.
- Malcolm D. Lee’s ‘The best man holiday’, staring Terence Howard, Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut and a host of others.
- Tyler Perry’s A’A Madea Christmas where Tyler Perry acting as Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit but the biggest surprise is what they find when they arrive.
- Kasi Lemmons ‘Black Nativity’ staring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Mary J. Blige and Jenifer Hudson as produced by T.D Jakes
In Cameroon and Africa at large, Christmas movies produced by filmmakers in the continent relate to the daily realities of the African people and the lessons drawn from these movies vary with the genre, duration and even producer.
Its Christmas and filmmakers the world over join the Christendom to make the celebrations as memorable as ever.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU.