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MADRID -- Seven bulls being used on the set of a film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have broken free in Spain and slightly injured two people.

Cruise and Diaz were not at Sunday's rehearsal. The actors are scheduled to arrive in the city of Cadiz in southwest Spain for the filming of the "Knight & Day" movie next weekend.

TomKat has turned three.

The star couple celebrated the third anniversary of their luxurious Italian wedding on November 18, 2006, with a dinner at Bricco restaurant in Boston on Saturday, according to People.

VIENNA - Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy "Knight & Day."

Cruise, wearing sunglasses and a casual shirt, waved as he got off a private jet at the local airport Thursday afternoon.

Emma Watts, who has been co-president of production at Fox since 2007, officially has been made the studio's sole president of production with a new three-year contract.

She shared the reins with Alex Young, who last month moved from the exec suite into a producing deal at the studio. It was widely expected that Watts would be given full responsibility as production head.

Disney kick-started the holidays on Friday with the release of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” which led the boxoffice listings for the day as it took in an estimated $8.97 million in 3,683 locations in North America.

Director Robert Zemeckis’ latest motion-capture creation, the PG-retelling of Charles Dickens’ time-tested tale, with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and other assorted roles, is unspooling in 3D in almost two-thirds of its playdates. While Saturday matinees will determine how strong the film is playing, its opening day fell well short of Carrey’s last Christmas movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” which bowed to $15.6 million on its opening Friday on Nov. 17, 2000.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The holiday season starts early this weekend, as Disney opens director Robert Zemeckis' 3D animated feature "A Christmas Carol."

The industry dates the holiday box office season from the weekend before Thanksgiving (November 20-22), but Disney executives believe "Carol" will play strongly well past Turkey Day.

- Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

"The Box" — Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a moral dilemma: Press a button on a mysterious container and they'll get $1 million, but someone they don't know will die. What button, on whose box, did writer-director Richard Kelly push to get the money to make this awful, preposterous thriller? Diaz and Marsden play a couple offered the box, button and deal described above by a grotesquely disfigured stranger (Frank Langella). Adapting this mess from a Richard Matheson story that was the basis of a 1980s "Twilight Zone" episode, Kelly roams ponderously beyond that tale's snappy ending, into an installment of "The X-Files" in its post-Mulder death throes, when the show turned to rot. Kelly piles on government conspiracies, abductions, mobs of automatons controlled by forces beyond human comprehension. The hammy dialogue and hammier performances eventually start to provoke laughs as the movie shambles toward its overdue demise. PG-13 for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images. Running time: 115 minutes. One star out of four.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Maybe the movie should be called "The Chinese Box."

OK, there is really only one box, but as a convoluted yet unconvincing story evolves, metaphorical boxes get pulled out of boxes as the plot winds its way through suspense, psychological thriller, science fiction, conspiracy theory and horror genres with an overlay of Christian religious motifs and a dab of existentialism. Oh, there's also a lot of nose bleeding.