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A dancing penguin became king of the Thanksgiving birds on the US holiday weekend.
Happy Feet, about tap-dancing penguins, ranked number one at the box office to beat the James Bond film Casino Royale.
Disney's thriller Deja Vu, starring Denzel Washington, led the new movies.
For the London launch of Australian director George Miller's Happy Feet, a flock of superstars gathered on an ice-blue carpet amid tonnes of fake snow.
Aussie Nicole Kidman, one of the voices in the film, headed the A-list that included Robin Williams, who said he could identify with "my small, fierce inner penguin".