Four wide openers to compete at b.o.

February 05, 2009 No rest for the nation's weary movie theater operators this weekend as another bevy of wide openers does battle with award-consideration holdovers. Focus Features unspools the Dakota Fanning-voiced 3-D animated feature "Coraline," which totes a kid-friendly PG rating and a filmic sensibility likely to snag more than a few adults -- certainly older fans of stop-motion auteur Henry Selick ("James and the Giant Peach"). Elsewhere, Sony has Steve Martin reprising his Inspector Clouseau role in slapstick sequel "The Pink Panther 2," which looks likely to draw audiences skewing heavily toward family patrons.

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