Die größten Thanksgiving Erfolge aller Zeiten in Amiland

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Tja, Truthahn, Familie und Feiern!
Das ist was uns der amerikanische Film zu Thanksgiving normalerweise beibringt.
Hier eine Liste mit den erfolgreichsten "Lange-Thanksgiving-Wochenende-Starts"
D.h. es zählen die 5 Tage verlängertes Wochenende das viele Amerikaner demnach NICHT mit der Familie sondern im Kino verbringen....

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Thanksgiving weekend is always a big one--big dinners, big family get-togethers, and for Hollywood studios, big box office. Traditionally, studios use this five-day weekend to wring the most moolah out of their crème-de-la-crème fare, family movies and actioners guaranteed to get people out of the house and into the theaters.

This year is no different. Director Oliver Stone's historical epic Alexander, starring Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie, is bound to draw film aficionados, while Christmas with the Kranks, featuring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, is aimed to please families and unshakeable holiday movie fans.

How they stack up in relation to movies of Thanksgiving past remains to be seen. Meanwhile, check out our countdown of the Top 10 highest grossing Thanksgiving Day films ever.

Hanging at 10: Rocky IV
Opened: Nov. 27, 1985
Grossed: $19.9 million
Sylvester Stallone reprise his role as the Italian Stallion, Rocky Balboa. Here, the slightly dimwitted, once-amateur boxer from Philadelphia's tough neighborhood is brought out of retirement to go up against Drago (Dolph Lundgren), an almost superhuman, seemingly undefeatable Soviet boxer who could easily be a one-man killing machine. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, the shy, reclusive girl Rocky met at the local pet store.

"Number 9…Number 9…": End of Days
Opened: Nov. 24, 1999
Grossed: $20.5 million
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Jericho Cane, a beaten-down ex-cop who wakes up oblivious to the struggle he's about to face. Following a bizarre confrontation with a homeless man warning him of impending doom, Cane rescues a young woman from attackers and soon realizes she is the key to a supernatural force of terror, born of prophecy long ago foretold. Now it is up to Cane to protect mankind from witnessing the end of days.

No. 8, pretty great: The Haunted Mansion
Opened: Nov. 26, 2003
Grossed: $24.2 million
Real estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) takes his family to visit to a mansion located on a remote bayou. But a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands the Evers family in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric owner Edward Gracey (Nathaniel Parker). At first Jim scoffs at Gracey's stories about ghosts and hauntings--until he unearths the mystery of the mansion and finds that his wife has unexpected connections to its haunted past.

Lucky No. 7: Flubber
Opened: Nov. 26, 1997
Grossed: $26.7 million
We can't believe this made the list either. Funnyman Robin Williams stars as Professor Phillip Brainard, who is working with his flying robot assistant, Weebo, on a substance he thinks will be a revolutionary new source of energy. Brainard's hard work in the lab comes together when he creates a miraculous goo that when applied to any object--cars, bowling balls, even people--enables them to fly through the air at remarkable speeds.

No. 6 sees sequel success: Back to the Future II
Opened: Nov. 22, 1989
Grossed: $27.8 million
In this sequel to the 1985 hit Back to the Future directed by Robert Zemeckis, crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) announces that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and his girlfriend must travel to the year 2015 in the Delorean turned time machine and tangle with a teen rogue named Griff, the descendant the original film's bully.

No. 5, and the start of Pixar's reign: Toy Story
Opened: Nov. 22, 1995
Grossed: $29.1 million
In 1991, Pixar Animation Studios signed a deal to develop and produce animated movies for Disney to distribute, and it all began with Toy Story, the first-ever completely computer-animated feature film. Here, Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), a traditional pull-string talking cowboy, falls out of favor with 6-year-old Andy with the arrival of Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen), a cool astronaut action figurine.

No. 4, a little bit of a mystery: Unbreakable
Opened: Nov. 22, 2000
Grossed: $30.3 million
Known as the movie that split director M. Night Shyamalan's audience (moviegoers either loved it or hated it), Unbreakable stars Bruce Willis as a listless security guard whose uneventful life changes when a train he is on crashes, killing more than 100 people on board-except him. The notoriety of his survival leads a comic-art dealer with a rare bone disease (Samuel L. Jackson) to believe he may be a superhero.

Bugs take over at No. 3: A Bug's Life
Opened: Nov. 20, 1998
Grossed: $33.2 million
Yet another animated adventure from Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, A Bug's Life revolves around a colony of ants threatened by a gang of grasshoppers led by the evil Hopper (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Common ant and misfit Flik (voiced by Dave Foley) goes on a mission to save his colony from grasshoppers and recruits a band of inept circus fleas to help him. This animated fare also features the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Phyllis Diller.

...But it's a dog's life at No. 2: 101 Dalmatians
Opened: Nov. 27, 1996
Grossed: $33.5 million
Glenn Close lends her voice to the evil Cruella DeVil, who owns and runs the fashionable House DeVil, which indulges her two passions: clothes and fur. But when her most talented designer leaves, Cruella is at a loss--until she pays a visit to her former employee and finds a litter of Dalmatian puppies she thinks would make a lovely coat. As she preens in readiness for her new finery, the entire canine kingdom is racing to rescue the pups.

And the number one all-time Thanksgiving moneymaker is…

Toy Story 2
Opened: Nov. 19, 1999
Grossed: $57.3 million
In this sequel to Disney and Pixar Animation Studios' Toy Story, toys Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) are left to their own devices when their owner Andy goes off to summer camp. Things take a turn for the worst when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who is a highly valuable collector's item. Buzz, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm, all leap into action to rescue Woody before Andy's return.



Quelle: Hollywod.com