Christmas Movies: Celebs Rumors

The holidays are here, which means various Christmas movies featuring Santa Claus will be playing around the clock!

“White Christmas” star Anne Whitfield — who played Susan Waverly in the 1954 holiday film — has died. She was 85.

played by Adam Driver in the new Michael Mann movie “Ferrari,” which is released on Christmas Day, was anything but. “He would fart and burp and cuss and do what he wanted… He taught himself to calm his baser instincts,” Stacy Bradley, editor and contributing writer to “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine,” by her late father Brock Yates, on which the hotly anticipated movie is based, told The Post. Bad behavior included “sleeping with hundreds of women” and not minding when his best drivers died in the line of high-speed duty.Never mind that he was married to Laura, and had a longterm mistress, Lina Lardi — played by Shailene Woodley — and a lovechild.

musician Taylor Goldsmith.“So we did that throughout my childhood, which feels silly, but we loved it. Pancakes and waffles and eggs and bacon and toast and all of that, we’re gonna do.”She hopes to introduce another tradition this year at their new Los Angeles home.

at Rockefeller Center, celebs are in the streets verbally sparring with crowds … December is well underway. Christmas 2023 is here at last. And whether or not you celebrate the holiday, Dec.

seasonal classic “A Christmas Story” has its marathon on TNT and TBS. For 24 hours straight on Christmas Day, the networks will air and re-air and re-air “A Christmas Story.” The tradition has been around since 1997, a source from the network told The Post. The source said that the annual tradition “showcases the power of nostalgia.” The 1983 movie, directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd’s 1966 book “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash,” follows Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley, now 52, who also appeared as one of the elves in another seasonal classic, “Elf”), a boy who wants a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas — but everyone from his mom to a department store Santa Claus warns him, “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Sure enough, he does have an eye-related mishap after getting the rifle for Christmas, but as an adult, he reflects that it was the best present he ever got.Other vignettes in the movie follow his dad, or “the Old Man,” played by Darren McGavin, who died in 2006 at age 83.

The Grinch” is a long-time favorite and no matter how many times people have watched it, there’s a fact that many have missed.And let me tell you this: once you see it, you’ll feel like a ning nong because you’ll realize how obvious it is. As snowflakes drop in the opening credits of the 2000 Ron Howard flick, the narrator delivers his opening line: “Inside a snowflake, like the one on your sleeve. There happens a story you must see to believe.”That’s it.

comes during the film’s climax, features the character Mark (played by Andrew Lincoln) arriving at the home of his best friend, Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor), to wordlessly declare his love for Peter’s wife, Juliet (Keira Knightley), using a boombox and handwritten notecards. “He actually turns up, to his best friend’s house, to say to his best friend’s wife, on the off chance that she answers the door, ‘I love you,'” Curtis, 67, told the Independent.

was pregnant with her and fiancé Allan Russell’s son Roman during filming, spoke about the milestone Monday on her “Whine Down” podcast.“It’s the first [Lifetime] Christmas movie that has a sex scene,” she explained. “When I read it, I was like, ‘Well, this is gonna be interesting.’ I’m like, ‘How are we gonna do this with the baby belly?’”Kramer, 39, portrays Lexie Crenshaw, a real estate “closer” who returns to her hometown of Tubac,  Arizona, to try to convince Coby Mason, a horse-whispering rancher (Adam Senn), to give up his family’s land while also reconsidering returning home to her roots.

carry another “Grinch” film.Despite a report from Giant Freaking Robot that the 61-year-old actor was set to return to “Universal Pictures for ‘The Grinch 2,’ once again playing Dr. Seuss’s most famous and ill-tempered creation,” a rep for the actor confirmed that the rumors were false.

“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” isn’t just playing on cable this year.From Nov. 26 through Dec.

Tuesday, Nov. 7, marks the 20th anniversary of the modern classic Christmas movie “Elf.” The movie stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf — a human who is mistakenly raised among elves at the North Pole — as he takes a journey to NYC to meet his biological father, grumpy book publisher Walter (James Caan). Along the way, Buddy, who has a childlike innocence, learns lessons, like the fact that other people think it’s weird to eat spaghetti with maple syrup on it, or the fact that other people think that it’s not an acceptable way to answer a phone with the opening, “Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite color?” He also falls in love with department store worker Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), and he gets into a fight with a pre-“Game of Thrones” fame Peter Dinklage.

Hallmark Channel is already ringing sleigh bells. The network’s infamous lineup of holiday movies is here for 2023, with a staggering 42 Christmas movies that will air on the Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and the streamer Hallmark Now. Former Hallmark star Candace Cameron Bure may have left to join Hallmark’s competitor, Great American Family Network, but that’s not slowing down Hallmark’s holiday schedule.

reported People.“Sometimes, we, as actors, don’t have control over which network buys the projects we are in, nor are we a part of the process in which they get sold,” said the actress in a scathing statement. “So I was very surprised to learn by reading about it in the press yesterday that the independent film I worked on over a year ago was sold to Great American Family.” The Hallmark Channel actress also slammed the network’s stance toward gay marriage.

Chevy Chase and his wife Jayni are embarking on a brief three-show tour where they’ll screen “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” in Medford, MA, Newark, NJ and Milwaukee, WI.At all stops on the quick trek, the classic 1989 film will be followed by behind-the-scenes stories and an audience Q&A where fans can ask questions about Chase’s tenure on “Saturday Night Live” as well as his star turns in “Caddyshack,” “Fletch,” “Three Amigos” and more.And if you buy today, you’ll certainly have money left over this holiday season since tickets are so affordably priced.At the time of publication, we found some going for as low as $51 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows start in the $70 to $80 range.Want to find out more about Chase’s Yuletide-themed tour before celebrating with him this winter?Keep reading.We’ve got everything you need to know and more below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all Chevy Chase 2023 tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

gifted the internet with the first look at Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming musical-comedy “Spirited” on Wednesday. The story is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” told from the perspective of the ghosts.“Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Ferrell) selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits,” the official synopsis for the film reads. “But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge.”“Clint Briggs (Reynolds) turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future,” it adds.Wednesday’s teaser trailer starts with Ferrell and Reynolds’ yellow silhouettes in a tap-dancing battle against a black background.

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Netflix, the Nancy Meyers rom-com has officially “entered the holiday canon,” according to Parade. And while many love the film for its leading ladies, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet, it’s the lecherous male characters that leave some armchair critics calling for its cancellation.Jude Law plays Graham, a widowed book editor who drunkenly shows up at a house being rented by Diaz’s character, Amanda Woods.

starring RuPaul; “Let’s Get Merried,” in which women at a bachelorette party talk graphically about sex; and “Miracles Across 125th Street,” starring Nick Cannon (more on that later).“We wanted to break the mold in a loud way,” Nina L. Diaz, president of content for MTV Entertainment Group, told the Los Angeles Times.

home for the holidays.Not surprisingly, many Christmas movies are based around families getting together for the holidays. This has resulted in many of the most popular holiday movies being based in iconic houses.Whether it’s Macaulay Culkin being left behind while his family goes on vacation or Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to get the perfect gift for his son, many of these films were shot in real homes and locations.The McCallisters’ house in “Home Alone” is a real house located in Winnetka, Illinois.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” transformed how the film industry utilizes fake snow, according to Jeremy Arnold, author of the illustrated book “Christmas in the Movies.” He explained to Entertainment Weekly just how Capra and a crafty crew produced the white stuff for the magical holiday flick.During the classic Hollywood days, early films used methods such as cornflakes painted white, cotton and asbestos in place of snow, according to EW. However, cornflakes proved to be too noisy and asbestos was found out to be harmful to actors’ health.

Beginning Is Now, means Shields isn’t just the face — she’s where the buck stops. “You’re meeting employees and lawyers, and there are documents and contracts to sign.

Son of a nutcracker!”Will Ferrell’s iconic “Elf” costume has sold for almost $300,000 at auction in the United Kingdom.The sale occurred at the Prop Store Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Tuesday, with an anonymous bidder forking out $296,702 (£218,832) for the ensemble.The costume was only expected to fetch between $27,116 and $40,675 (£20,000 and £30,000), according to TMZ, meaning it was auctioned off for almost 10 times the anticipated price.Ferrell, 54, wore the costume during the production of “Elf,” which was filmed in 2003.The comedy — in which the funnyman plays an unwitting elf who arrives in New York from the North Pole — has become a beloved holiday classic in the years since it was first released.Ferrell’s costume was

“Pioneer Woman” host, 52, is starring in the culinary network and Discovery+’s first scripted feature film, “Candy Coated Christmas.”Drummond will make her acting debut in the holiday flick, set for release on Nov. 19.According to People, the movie focuses on Molly Gallant (played by Molly McCook), who returns to her home in Washington after her mother’s death.

Fox Nation, one of Fox News Media’s three streamers, is celebrating an “All-American Christmas” this year with the release of two new Christmas Movies. “Christmas in the Wilds” and “Christmas in the Pines” will both be available exclusively on the platform beginning on Thanksgiving, which falls Nov.

TV movie schedule on Wednesday. 2021’s holiday season will be stocked with 41 new titles across the Hallmark Channel, sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and the streaming platform Hallmark Movies Now.This year’s X-mas slate of feel-good flicks includes sequels to several much-beloved Hallmark movies.

long-running show “The Pioneer Woman,” is trying her hand at acting: The carb-adoring “wife of a cowboy” is set to star in the first-ever Food Network-produced scripted film, “Candy Coated Christmas,” Variety reported. “It’s been a dream of ours to do this for a long time,” Kathleen Finch, chief lifestyle brands officer for Discovery — which will air the movie on its Discovery+ network — told the publication of venturing into the realm of lighthearted holiday flicks.

Find it on: Amazon Prime VideoCharlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and the gang deck the halls and discover the meaning of the season in the 1965 animated special.Find it on: Apple TV+It’s not Christmas without a magical train journey to the North Pole; based on the 1985 children’s book, with help from an animated Tom Hanks. Find it on: Amazon Prime Video The classic 1947 film follows the intrigue around a department store Santa who claims to be the real deal.Find it on: Disney+Join Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell) as he meets his human family, explores New York and finds love and the world’s best cup of coffee in this modern classic. Find it on: Starz and AMC+In this star-studded 2005 family drama, the Stone family has a dysfunctional gathering,

2019 college admissions scandal.Future holidays for the “Full House” star, 56, won’t be merry and bright, either. The negative publicity — and Loughlin and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli’s babyish reaction to the charges — got her effectively banned from the network.“We are no longer working with Lori Loughlin and have stopped development of all productions that air on the Crown Media Family Network channels,” Hallmark’s parent company said in a statement.

told Boston.com. “It was a really good way to break the ice.”His biological father didn’t get the joke because he hadn’t seen the movie, which is about a man raised at the North Pole who meets his dad for the first time.

Back in 1990, Chris Columbus directed what is arguably America’s favorite non-animated Christmas movie: “Home Alone.”In 2020, he returns to helm America’s 479th favorite Christmas movie: “Christmas Chronicles 2,” which is sadly more in line with his less celebrated films, such as “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” and “I Love You, Beth Cooper.” It is mercifully not as bad as “Pixels.”What’s weird is that Columbus did not direct the 2018 movie that kicked off this franchise, starring Kurt Russell as a slick and more physically fit Santa Claus. He jumped onboard for a crackpot sequel.

Bonkers plot: The glamorous Dolly Parton plays a crooning homeless woman — dressed in her shabbiest cashmere and clutching a giant cardboard “change” box — who is actually an angel in disguise. Meanwhile, a singing Christine Baranski plays a cold, rich woman named Regina who plans to evict an entire town to build a giant mall.

Santa Claus, in “Fatman.” Many performers have given a unique spin on Father Christmas, from Edmund Gwenn as the traditional jolly type in “Miracle on 34th Street” to Tim Allen as an angry divorced dad in “The Santa Clause.” Mel’s Canadian schlub with a sooty beard and John Wayne voice is the worst of them all.In this telling, Chris lives proudly out in the open on an average-looking farm in a real northern town with his wife Ruth (Marianne Jean-Baptiste). He is cranky and monotonous, he doesn’t wear the red suit, he drinks beer at the pub and is friendly with the locals.

One of the most infamous events in “Star Wars” history is getting resurrected on Disney+, through a lens made of Lego.“The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” will debut on the streaming service on Nov. 17.

The Christmas Setup has yet to begin production (the photo used for this article is actually from Lifetime's first LGBTQ+ kiss in last year's Twinkle All the Way), but we do have a description: Hugo, a New York corporate lawyer and his best friend, Madelyn, head to Milwaukee to spend the holidays with his mom, Kate, who is also in charge of the local Christmas celebrations. Ever the matchmaker, Kate arranges for Hugo to run into Patrick, Hugo’s high school friend and secret crush, who has recently returned after a successful stint in Silicon Valley. As they enjoy the local holiday festivities together, Hugo and Patrick’s attraction to each other is undeniable, and it looks as though Kate’s well-intentioned Santa-style matchmaking is a

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