A traditional Disney movie that some critics said seemed to have been guided by the spirit of Walt himself became a big hit at the domestic box office over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to final figures released Monday. Enchanted earned $34.4 million over the weekend and $49 million over the five-day holiday period, box office trackers Media By Numbers said. In second place was Sony/Screen Gems's This Christmas, which raked in $17.96 million over the weekend and $26.34 million over the holiday. In fact the movie earned more on a per-theater basis than Enchanted, averaging $9,665 per theater versus $9,233 for the Disney film. Also scoring strongly was the critically praised No Country for Old Men, playing in only 830 theaters. It earned $7.78 million and averaged $9,043 per theater. Last weekend's top film, Beowulf dropped 40 percent to third place with $16.53 million ($23.6 million for the holiday), but saw only a 15-percent drop-off in business at 3-D IMAX houses.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1 Enchanted, Disney, $34,440,317, 1 Wk. ($49,060,281 -- From Wednesday); 2. This Christmas, Sony, $17,958,183, 1 Wk. ($26,341,492 -- From Wednesday); 3. Beowulf, Paramount, $16,538,666, 2 Wks. ($56,633,821); 4. Hitman, 20th Century Fox, $13,180,769, 1 Wk. ($21,094,148 -- From Wednesday); 5. Bee Movie, Paramount, $11,813,502, 4 Wks. ($111,860,810); 6. Fred Claus, Warner Bros., $10,575,400, 3 Wks. ($52,869,835); 7. August Rush, Warner Bros., $9,421,369, 1 Wk. ($13,243,069 -- From Wednesday); 8. American Gangster, Universal, $9,013,925, 4 Wks. ($115,550,290); 9. The Mist, MGM, $8,931,973, 1 Wk. ($12,861,800 -- From Wednesday); 10. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, 20th Century Fox, $7,936,035, 2 Wks. ($22,179,439).

Universal Studios and partners plan to build a $3.1-billion theme park south of Seoul in South Korea, the provincial government of Gyeonggi said today (Tuesday). As reported by Bloomberg News, the park, located near Hwaseong, will also include hotels, a golf course and a shopping mall. There was no indication whether, like its U.S. counterparts in California and Florida, it will also include a working film studio. It is due to open in 2012, the announcement said. Universal, a unit of General Electric, is partnering with Korea Development Bank, Shinhan Bank and Korea Investment & Securities Co. in the project. However, it did not indicate the size of each partner's investment in the project or its stake.

Calling his films "both social critique and high art," the Berlin Film Festival has named 74-year-old director Constantin Costa-Gavras to head the jury at next year's festival. His 1989 film Music Box won the Berlinale's top Golden Bear award the following year. In 1969, his Z won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Most of his films have political themes and several have concerned repressive regimes all over the world.

Redbox says it now has more DVD kiosks installed in McDonald's and other restaurants, grocery stores, drug stores, and other retail sites, than Blockbuster has stores. It said in a statement on Monday that it now has more than 6,000 kiosks in 46 states versus Blockbuster's 5,200 locations. The company automatically charges $1 per night to rent a movie, which can be returned to any Redbox location. If the movie is not returned within 25 days, no further charges are added. The company has said that between June of last year and June of this year, it rented 11 million movies. McDonald's owns a majority stake in Redbox; Coinstar owns 47.3 percent.

Rochester Institute of Technology film professor Jeffrey Owen Jones, who reputedly was immortalized as the "Mr. Jones" whom Bob Dylan referred to in "Ballad of a Thin Man," died on Nov. 10 of lung cancer, it was reported on Monday. Jones had interviewed Dylan as a summer intern for Time magazine at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, shortly before Dylan wrote his song, which begins, "You walk into the room/With your pencil in your hand/You see somebody naked/And you say, 'Who is that man?'" and which ends, "Something is happening here/But you don't know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?" Later, in an article in Rolling Stone, Jones wrote: "I resented the caricature but had to admit that there was something happening there at Newport in the summer of 1965, and I didn't know what it was." In its obituary, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported that Jones later worked for the paper as a copy editor and later went on to become editor of Psychology Today, work at CBS, and ten years ago win a New York Emmy for Outstanding Fine Arts Programming.

ABC's Dancing With the Stars produced the best ratings of any entertainment show of the fall season Monday night as the final competition night nabbed a 15.7 rating and a 23 share in the 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. hour, according to Nielsen research. Judges' final scores had the team of Indy car racer Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough and the team of Melanie Brown (also known as The Spice Girls' Mel B or Scary Spice) and Maksim Chmerkovskiy in a dead heat while the team of Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts placed third. Judges on Monday night's show ruthlessly criticized Osmond's "free style number" in which she dressed as a rag doll. "This is the loopiest thing I've ever seen. It defies criticism," remarked judge Bruno Tonioli. Osmond, visibly perturbed by the criticism, shot back, "I don't buy it." As she left the stage, host Tom Bergeron said to her, "Don't have a hissy fit." Final results are due to be announced tonight (Tuesday) following a showdown between the two leaders.

Rumors spread throughout Hollywood Monday that the first day of renewed talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers produced concrete results and were likely to lead to a quick settlement. Citing an unnamed insider, L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke reported on her website Monday evening that the AMPTP negotiators arrived at the session with "a very comprehensive proposal." Each side has agreed not to discuss the negotiations with the press; even the site of the talks remains secret. Talks were reportedly set to resume today (Tuesday). Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported today (Tuesday) that NBC's Last Call With Carson Daly will become the first late-night talk show to return to the air since the strike began. Daly is expected to resume production in Burbank this week with new episodes set to air beginning Monday, the A.P. said, citing unnamed sources.

The imminent return of Don Imus to the airwaves has been welcomed in an Op-Ed piece in the Boston Globe by the writer of a book about discrimination against women in the legal workplace. Lauren Stiller Rikleen, author of Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law, called Imus's remarks about the Rutger's women's basketball team "reprehensible" but maintained that "hypocritical" broadcast media have turned a blind eye to similar outrageous comments since Imus's dismissal. "Imus should be back on the air because he remains one of the few interviewers willing to ask the tough questions that most others ignore," Rikleen wrote. "Unlike so many other journalists who treat their interviewees gingerly so as not to scare away other 'gets, ' Imus did not let his guests off the hook with evasive answers." She acknowledged that at times Imus could be crude. "When that happened, many of us probably did the same thing: We changed the station. It's an old-fashioned approach, but it still works." Meanwhile, published reports have indicated that when Imus returns on Dec. 3, he'll have a co-host for the first time. Monday's New York Post suggested that Imus "partner up with an African-American woman, as Howard Stern did so successfully with the lovely Robin Quivers, who keeps Stern from straying into misogynistic, racist territory."

Dan Rather has accused Sumner Redstone of being "the heavy" in his ouster as anchor of the CBS Evening News. In an interview with New York magazine, Rather avoided discussing details of his $70-million lawsuit against CBS, Redstone, CBS CEO Les Moonves and former CBS News president Andrew Heyward. He told the magazine that he expects critics to understand the reasons for his suit "when people hear what I was told and what I was not told by CBS executives" concerning the story about President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard that led to his dismissal and which he now insists was accurate. In the interview, Rather insisted that his on-air apology for the story was "coerced" by Heyward and that it was written by the news chief.

Although the networks touted the results as a great success, Nielsen figures for the month of October indicate that ABC attracted 10.6 million unique visitors to the website where it streams episodes of its shows; NBC, 8.1 million to its site; CBS, 6.1 million; and Fox, 3.4 million. The results seem to indicate that the total number of viewers recorded by each of the networks for an entire month was about what a single network program averages on any given night. Nevertheless, TV Week quoted network executives as saying that the figures for October exceeded their estimates. The trade publication also noted that the networks now run advertisers' spots during online episodes until they deliver the guaranteed number of viewers. After that, they fill the time with promos for other network shows. The result, TV Week observed, is that while "it's next to impossible to buy ads in Desperate Housewives or Heroes on TV, spots in episodes of those shows are available online."

After at first seeming to benefit from the writers' strike as it rose to first place among the late-night shows, Late Show With David Letterman dropped to third place last week, according to Nielsen Research. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno regained the lead with an average of 3.93 million viewers versus Letterman's 3.43 million. Each show is airing reruns. Taking over second place was ABC's Nightline, which averaged 3.57 million viewers.