George Clooney and 'A Christmas Carol' Head to Theaters

Bring your Sourpatch Kids.

Even though November just started, movie studios are already gearing up for the holidays. Arriving in theaters this weekend is an updated version of Charles Dickens' classic story, A Christmas Carol. Of course, that's not all there is. Check out our quick guide to what's hitting a theater near you.

In the new adaptation of A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis employs the same 3D motion-capture technology that he employed to tell Beowulf. This gives the classic tale a depth and vitality Dickens himself could nevere have dreamed of. Catch Jim Carrey as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Let's say someone gives you a mysterious button and tells you all you have to do is push it and you'll get one million dollars. But here's the catch: when you push that button, someone you've never met before will die. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden are a couple who must make that decision in Box.

The military has long been interested in harnessing psychic powers for combat, and in The Men Who Stare At Goats we get an absurdly comic peek. Ewan MacGregor stars as a reporter who meets a special forces agent (George Clooney) who is part of a secret, psychic military unit.

In the Fourth Kind (this week's big budget Paranormal Activity?), Milla Jovovich stars as Abigail Tyler, a doctor in Nome, Alaska, who tries to solve a rash of disappearances in the town. What she finds may lead to a shocking conspiracy.