<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1679b3a5-cdd0-44c0-8e43-1f625cc982ce/4AFF6B1A-6E65-4C34-861A-536CE2F2A30C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Filmgoers Seek Cheer; Studios Toil to Deliver It </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/88D020FD-6F99-4836-9521-BDA4D3B2ACBA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P class="caption"> Connecting with viewers: Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn in the boisterous holiday comedy “Four Christmases.” </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P>LOS ANGELES — In these troubled times, America’s film studios are hard at work on planned pictures about a battered boxer; the post-apocalyptic wasteland; a bad human-resources executive whose job is to fire people.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P>Where is Busby Berkeley when you need him?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P>If moviegoers have delivered a message in the last few months, it is that they want their films, for the moment, at least, to be a lot more fun than their lives. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P>Among topics connecting with viewers since financial markets collapsed in October: animated penguins (<A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/335737/Madagascar-Escape-2-Africa/overview">“Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”</A>), holidays (<A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/409757/Four-Christmases/overview">“Four Christmases”</A>), dancing teenagers (<A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/389192/High-School-Musical-3-Senior-Year/overview">“High School Musical 3: Senior Year”</A>) and vampires who don’t bite (<A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/titlelist.html?v_idlist=439903;160611;443855;454474;114723;114732;445489;292949;275257;144251;451793;159739;327071;265566&inline=nyt_ttl">“Twilight”</A>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P class="caption"> Too somber? Angelina Jolie and Devon Conti in “Changeling.” </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/movies/17mood.html"><P class="caption"> Easy sell: The dancing teenagers of “High School Musical 3.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4AFF6B1A-6E65-4C34-861A-536CE2F2A30C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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