From 'Rent' To 'King Kong'

The holiday movie season officially kicked off this weekend with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which took in an amazing $101 million at the box office, the fourth highest opening weekend of all time.

People magazine senior editor and The Early Show entertainment contributor Jess Cagle offers a preview of what is to come.

Ever since "Chicago" walked off with a big box office and a Best Picture Oscar, Hollywood has been looking for the next big musical to do the same. This holiday season they offer two, among a variety of big budget blockbusters and more arty fare

This Wednesday, the Pulitzer and Tony award winning "Rent" comes to the big screen. It follows a group of bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life and love.

"The Producers" won a record-setting 12 Tony awards. Will it get the same attention from Oscar? Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are Broadway producers looking for the next great flop. Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman add new star power.

"Chicago" director Rob Marshall returns with the opulent epic "Memoirs of a Geisha," based on the best-selling novel.

After winning best picture at this year's Venice film festival, "Brokeback Mountain" looks like an Oscar frontrunner, too. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play ranch hands who struggle with their love over two decades.

Ledger also has a decidedly different role, playing legendary womanizer "Casanova."

Colin Farrell stars as John Smith, who falls in love with Pocahontas and discovers "The New World."

Writer/director Woody Allen stays behind the camera and moves to London with the dramatic thriller "Match Point," which stars Scarlett Johansson.

Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear play a hit man and a salesman with a surprising bond in "The Matador."

And George Clooney leads an ensemble cast in the oil industry drama "Syriana," which also stars Matt Damon.

Two-time Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg gets serious again, looking at the aftermath of the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics in "Munich."

And "King Kong" is brought back to the big screen by Oscar-winning writer, producer and director Peter Jackson.

Oscar-winner Charlize Theron becomes an action hero in the animated sci-fi series "Aeon Flux."

The holidays have a strong family feel this year: Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as the parents of 12 children in "Cheaper By The Dozen Two," while Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid do a half-dozen better playing a widow and widower who combine their 18 children in a remake of "Yours Mine And Ours."

Diane Keaton plays the matriarch of a family that disapproves of her son's new girlfriend, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in the ensemble comedy "The Family Stone."

In "Rumor Has It," Jennifer Aniston stars as an obituary writer who finds out her grandmother, played by Shirley MacLaine, may have been the real-life Mrs. Robinson. She suspects that her family was the inspiration for the classic film "The Graduate."

And the long-awaited family film "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe" makes its way to theaters Dec. 9.

Also, Felicity Huffman could follow her "Desperate Housewives" Emmy win with an Oscar nod for "Transamerica," and Johnny Depp looks for his third straight Best Actor nomination with "The Libertine."