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From the animated sequel "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," which opens Friday, to the Christmas prestige film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," diverse releases crowd the final two months of 2008. Data service Nielsen EDI defines the holiday season -- one of five on the box office calendar -- as running from the weekend before Thanksgiving through the frame after New Year's, i.e. November 21 to January 4. But three sessions before Turkey Day, distributors are already lining up their most prized releases. To wit: DreamWorks Animation's "Madagascar" sequel, which is getting a head start now rather than waiting for the holiday. "It's a movie that feels like it should play strongly all the way through Thanksgiving vacation," says Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore, whose studio distributes DreamWorks Animation releases. Next Friday boasts what will likely be one of the fourth quarter's biggest releases: the James Bond thriller "Quantum of Solace," from Sony and MGM. The Daniel Craig starrer is considered a lock to play strongly well into December, especially considering its huge U.K. opening, much like Sony's November 2006 Bond opener "Casino Royale." Two weeks from now, over the November 21 frame, wide openers will include the season's biggest teens-and-tweens title, "Twilight," from newbie distributor Summit. Based on a series of high school vampire novels, the potential franchise-starter could sink its teeth into some serious business if the marketplace matches its prerelease Internet hype. The target audience for Disney's 3-D animated feature "Bolt" (November 26) will overlap a bit with that for "Twilight." But the holiday weekend should allow both to play strongly through their first 10 days. It also could bode well for Warner Bros.' Reese Witherspoon-Vince Vaughn comedy "Four Christmases" (November 26). "Our second weekend will be propped up by the nature of holiday moviegoing habits," Summit chief Rob Friedman says. "Once you start approaching November, it's always gotten more competitive, and this Christmas is even a bit more crowded than in the past. So it's definitely is going to be very competitive, but I think we have a unique movie." After Thanksgiving, the holiday release schedule takes on an awards-oriented flavor. Such films as Universal's "Frost/Nixon," Focus Features' "Milk" and the Weinstein Co.'s "The Reader" will launch platforming campaigns to capitalize on kudos considerations, setting up theatrical runs well into January. Yet Fox's remake of the sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is a pure commercial play, with some suggesting that the Keanu Reeves starrer will prove one of the holiday season's top grossers. "Day" breaks on December 12, or just 16 days after Fox unspools director Baz Luhrmann's period drama "Australia" (November 26), starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The studio is looking to make enough holiday loot to compensate for its skimpy summer tally at the box office. "I will not hide from the fact that we had a poor summer," Fox distribution president Bruce Snyder says. "The pictures didn't work as well as we had hoped, but it looks like we should have a strong holiday period." That's not to suggest that the period won't be extremely competitive. Two films boasting particularly top-notch talent open over the December 19 frame, just before Christmas. Sony offers Will Smith in "Seven Pounds," in which the can't-miss box office darling plays a depressed IRS agent who falls in love. And Jim Carrey toplines Warners' comedy "Yes Man," perhaps the studio's best shot at a big holiday haul after its move to postpone "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" until July. Continued... 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