Monday afternoon at Cannes saw a mid-day snowfall outside the Carlton Hotel when Walt Disney Pictures faked flurries as part of a promotional event for Robert Zemeckis' upcoming computer-animated Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Stars Jim Carrey and Colin Firth were in attendance; after the world premiere of two clips from the film, Carrey, Firth and Zemeckis took questions from the crowd of journalists present.

Carrey also praised Sims work in 1951's Scrooge: "I wouldn't say I stole from it, but I definitely wanted to leave the bitterness, the sourness. You imagine he had the worst case of acid reflux in the world." Carrey acknowledged that playing Scrooge was a career highlight after years of comedic and slapstick work: "A character this important, in a story this beautiful, the things you get to do as an actor when you start talking out of your butt," as Carrey did in 1994's Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, "...it's a long road."

His co-star Firth explained that the motion-capture process was really more artistic than one might think, despite the high-tech suits and body-scanning technology required. "Bob has more information on me than my doctor," he admitted. "but once you've put on the manhood-cancelling [motion-capture] suit, you just do it; there's no fourth wall, no camera you're going to play to." Firth's favorite take on the tale? "I love the Muppets version," he said.