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Apple to Produce Spirited, A Musical Remake of A Christmas Carol

Apple TV+ will soon produce Spirited, a musical retelling of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, according to Collider. The big money project ropes in the talents of Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell to star in the flick. Reynolds will be playing…
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Five Rules for Remaking A Christmas Carol

Last year we openly mourned the lack of decent Christmas movies being made. It has been well over a decade since Elf, for Pete's sake. Hollywood has suffered a drought of original Christmas ideas and every season seems to bring yet another…
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Reading Dickens

Everyone knows the story of A Christmas Carol backwards and forwards. Pick a version by decade and you're bound to find one you love. Everyone can claim to have seen a big or a small screen version of it. But have you ever read it? I…
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Ice Cube: Not the Scrooge We’re Looking For

We asked for a modern re-do of A Christmas Carol in the latest episode of the Merry Podcast and at least one of four competing movie studios wants to deliver. Universal Pictures has purchased the rights to a modern re-telling of the Dickens…
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Who is the best Jacob Marley?

Whether you read the book or simply watch A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens every Christmas there is no getting around the point that likely the juiciest role in the whole story is that of Jacob Marley. Think about it -- he's a mournful,…
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Young Scrooge George Cole Has Died

Actor George Cole, a British mainstay for years on UK television and in British film, has died at the age of 90, the New York Times reports. He is most well known outside of England for playing the part of young Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas…
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Charles Dickens: A Merry Old Soul

By Jeff Westover Life and times were hard in London of 1824. For one boy in particular, the second of seven children, life was especially difficult. At the age of twelve, his father was tossed into a debtor's prison, leaving an already…