Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes announced last week that Hollywood stars Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan will star in a new Christmas feature film titled A Christmas Star, set to begin filming later this year. Gareth Ellis Unwin, the Oscar-winning producer of The King’s Speech; acclaimed Rise of the Planet of the Apes composer Patrick […]
The Hallmark Channel tweeted, “Stunning Candice Glover is going to make our Christmas movie franchise even more spectacular.” The St. Helena Island native and American Idol winner happily confirmed the news on her Facebook page and said the “secret was out.” The movie, titled “Northpole,” is a “charming tale about a reporter who, with the […]
Hallmark CHANNEL is pleased to announce that it is partnering once again with beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber to create its fourth Hallmark CHANNEL Original Holiday Movie World Premiere “Debbie Macomber’s Mr. Miracle,” slated to debut Holiday 2014. The movie and backdoor pilot will be part of the network’s hugely popular […]
Lacey Chabert is getting a very early start to the holiday season. The “Party of Five” and “Mean Girls” alum has signed on to star in the holiday movie “Christmas Tree Farm,” which will premiere in December on the UP network. Chabert will play Molly Logan, who grew up on her family’s Christmas tree farm […]
Sony Pictures beat out at least two other studios in gaining rights to the story Winter’s Knight, a completely different take on the origins and adventures of Santa Claus. The film is based on the 1902 book The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus by Frank L. Baum and attaches itself to Viking pagan origins […]
Hollywood movie producer Adam Rosenfelt announced a deal Sunday to film “The Most Wonderful Time,” starring Diane Keaton, Alan Arkin, Ed Helms and others, in and around Jackson, Missippi starting in late spring. We introduced this project starring Robert Redford and Diane Keaton and others last summer. Rosenfelt said “The Most Wonderful Time” is a […]
UPS, the guys in brown, are on everyone’s naughty list, it seems. UPS made news they didn’t want when millions of packages went undelivered for Christmas. I was caught up in the fiasco. My daughter was receiving an iPad Mini for Christmas and I was getting it through a vendor who promised to ship it […]
In a world dominated by phones, tablets and small screens the on-demand of Christmas is by far the fastest growing form of entertainment at Christmas. A recent televised Christmas special variety show by Kelly Clarkson drew about 30 million viewers and that was considered good by many standards. But some of the videos we show […]
They are making merchandise of Christmas and all who celebrate it. All of them. Bill O’Reilly. Sarah Palin. The American Humanist Association. Freedom From Religion Foundation. All of them. Those of us who keep Christmas year round know when Christmas is getting closer because these guys start blowing their horns. Once Christmas is over they […]
Some traditions of a cherished holiday will never change. Despite months of planning and making list after list I found myself out in stores later on the eve of Thanksgiving than I cared to be. I was in the advanced stages of readiness. The turkey, stuffing and cranberries had been purchased long ago but I […]
