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Late Night Highlights: Jack Black and Jimmy Fallon Top David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s ‘Little Drummer Boy’ Duet

First, Jack Black and Jason Segel starred in an animated “Little Drummer Boy” duet. Then Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly cranked out their own Funny or Die version . Unwilling to be topped, Jack Black performed a new rendition of the holiday classic with Jimmy Fallon while wearing swim goggles and covering himself in paint on last night’s Late Night . Elsewhere, Emma Stone recalled her Easy A sex mishap, Reese Witherspoon remembered the drunken flight she took with Chelsea Handler and Kristen Schaal talked about the joys of jumbo checks.

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Late Night Highlights: Jack Black and Jimmy Fallon Top David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s ‘Little Drummer Boy’ Duet

12 Films of Christmas: Gremlins

This selection from Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas gives us a horror hit that forever changed portrayals of Christmas — not to mention the MPAA : On a trip to New York City, unsuccessful inventor Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) searches for a Christmas present for his son Billy (Zach Galligan), and in Chinatown he finds an adorable creature known as a mogwai. The old shopkeeper (Keye Luke) refuses to sell it, but his grandson secretly lets Rand have it for $300. There are rules to be followed in keeping the creature: Keep it away from bright light, don’t let it get wet, and don’t feed it after midnight.

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12 Films of Christmas: Gremlins

Slideshow: The 10 Biggest MPAA Debacles of 2010

Ah, another year, another series of enigmatic clues as to how the MPAA ratings board actually makes its decisions. And then an equal number of films try to challenge the mystifying organization to gain free publicity. 2010 was no exception, with a wide variety of contradictions, exceptions and just completely baffling decisions, and so in our grand year-end tradition, let’s take a look at the 10 biggest MPAA debacles of 2010.

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Slideshow: The 10 Biggest MPAA Debacles of 2010

2010’s Most Pirated Films: Avatar Refuses to Lose

Did you think Avatar was going to settle for being the highest grossing movie of all time and then just fade away quietly? No way! This record-breaking juggernaut is also the most pirated film of 2010. On one hand, this makes no sense at all since Avatar seemed like the last film you would want to download, given that its visual, 3-D experience was the main selling point. On the other hand, I guess the hype behind any movie making that much money is hard to ignore, even for internet pirates. In any case, while 20th Century Fox is probably okay with this distinction since the film already killed it at the box office, a few other films on the top ten list probably aren’t so happy.

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2010’s Most Pirated Films: Avatar Refuses to Lose

CBS Reveals Midseason Plan: What’s New? What’s Moved?

CBS on Tuesday announced its midseason game plan, and given the network’s embarrassment of riches, none of the changes merits any cause for alarm. Kicking things off — as a sort of placeholder/possible test drive — Tom Selleck’s Blue Bloods , which has been handily winning Friday nights, will move to Wednesdays at 10/9c for four weeks starting Jan. 19.

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Enough, Already, About Natalie Portman’s ‘Norbit’

Listen, let’s just make this quick: Friends With Benefits is not Natalie Portman’s Norbit . Don’t let anybody tell you differently. Of course, they won’t tell you per se — they’ll ask or insinuate or poll (or offer some epic, perverse combination of the three), pretending to be on the forward edge of a significant moral-cultural quandary that will define this year’s Oscar race for Best Actress, advancing and attempting to rationalize a conversation with no rational foundation in the first place. We’re better than this, folks, and now is the time to eradicate this non-issue from the Oscar 2010 books.

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Enough, Already, About Natalie Portman’s ‘Norbit’

Hanna Trailer Teaches How to Train Your Assassin

When a trailer starts with Eric Bana telling a young girl who was raised in the woods, “You’re dead. I’ve killed you,” you know you’re in for something a little different. Especially when the next shot is of said girl running and screaming like a banshee over a pulsing score from the Chemical Brothers. Thankfully, the trailer for Hanna never looses steam, veering wildly from Kick-Ass -style cool to fairy-tale wonder to the tender, coming of age moments of the titular young assassin, played by Saoirse Ronan. Oh, and it’s from the director of Pride and Prejudice and Atonement .

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Hanna Trailer Teaches How to Train Your Assassin

Why Did I Watch a Full Season of Survivor When All It Did Was Make Me Mad?

Survivor: Nicaragua concluded last night with an anticlimax: A competent, immunity-prone contestant won the competition and beat out two more scheming players. I’d praise the winner’s athleticism, but the mere fact that his cunning competitors lost is a bit depressing. Why do we watch this show when it just becomes a squatting contest among “less threatening” contenders? (Spoilers ahead.)

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Hit Girl, Nina Sayers and Olive Pendergrass: The 10 Most Kick-Ass Females of 2010

There are thousands of forgettable female film characters piled into the IMD b database each year (Katherine Heigl’s Killers persona Jen Kornfeldt anyone?), but when it comes to inspiring movie females of the kick-ass variety, there are considerably fewer. With 2010 rapidly coming to a close, their impressive wit, intellect, resourcefulness, brute strength and emotional endurance deserve to be recognized! In our continued holiday-list making spirit , Movieline recalls its favorite women to kick ass at the multiplex in 2010. Feel free to nominate your own femmes phenomenal in the space below and let’s hope for many more of these exceptional females in the year to come.

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Hit Girl, Nina Sayers and Olive Pendergrass: The 10 Most Kick-Ass Females of 2010

Wake Wood Trailer: Never Trust a Cult to Resurrect Your Daughter

Directors like Tim Burton have cited the classic British horror movies produced by Hammer Films as huge influences on their work. Burton even used Hammer Films regular Christopher Lee in multiple movies, including his most direct tribute to British horror, Sleepy Hollow . Now after a long period of hibernation, Hammer Films is back! They produced this year’s superb Let Me In , they are working on The Woman in Black , starring the grown-up Daniel Radcliffe, and now they’ve released the trailer for Wake Wood , their first original horror film since 1976. Get ready for Pagan rituals people getting sucked into the ground.

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Wake Wood Trailer: Never Trust a Cult to Resurrect Your Daughter