Studios are releasing family-friendly titles for the U.S. Thanksgiving long weekend, including Walt Disney’s modern fairytale Enchanted, Columbia Pictures’ dramedy This Christmas and Warner Bros.’ drama August Rush.

Both Enchanted, starring Patrick Dempsey and Susan Sarandon, and August Rush, with Robin Williams, opened on Wednesday and will go wide Friday.

The counter-programmed thriller The Mist, based on the Stephen King story, opens wide through Alliance Films, and will go head-to-head with the actioner Hitman, from 20th Century Fox.

While it’s a quiet weekend on the domestic front, Mongrel Media will release the documentary How to Cook Your Life, from German writer/director Doris Dörrie, on one screen in Toronto Friday, with plans to expand to Vancouver next week.

Meanwhile, Maple Pictures has confirmed that Michael Mabbott’s comedy Citizen Duane has ended its run at Toronto’s Carlton theater after only one week on the big screen. The release of the film, which bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, was delayed when its Canadian distributor ThinkFilm was sold to a U.S. investor last year.