Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!
Just a cat who likes Christmas movies
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- Penelope Ann Miller, Paul Ben-Victor, Greer Grammer and Kahyun Kim join the Lucy Hale and Ian Harding on THE TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS. deadline.com/2026/02/the-...
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- Reposted by Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?* A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
- Deck the Hallmark reviews my least-favorite new holiday movie of 2025, Hulu's JOY TO THE WORLD. @aduralde.bsky.social and @brambledan.bsky.social get it. Bran…not so much. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
- Newly available on Amazon Prime Video, 2002's IT'S A VERY MERRY MUPPET CHRISTMAS MOVIE and 1942's HOLIDAY INN, both of which have only been streaming via digital sale/rental in recent years.
- Telemundo is developing its first original Christmas movie for the Spanish-language broadcast network. www.produ.com/ushispanic/n...
- PILLION gets an A- review from IndieWire's Ryan Lattanzio ahead of its American release. www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
- ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND MAHJONG set to start filming tomorrow in Victoria under the guidance of director Jessica Harmon. Originally developed as a Christmas title, not sure if the holiday elements remain, but this was the final project for producer Karen Glass.
- Writer-director Blaise Beyhan set to start filming historical 1910-set drama, NEW ENGLAND TOYS, in and around Buffalo, NY next week. Sisters kill an abusive husband, putting their family toy business in jeopardy. Their cover-up of the brutal crime, inadvertently helps establish holiday traditions.
- Another royalty-centered Maverick holiday production gearing up to start filming in Santa Clarita, Calif. next week, A ROYAL CHRISTMAS SWITCH. A Prince and the Pauper takeoff, where a prince schemes to experience a normal American holiday season after a chance meeting with his doppelganger.
- Joss Wood's 2023 romance novel, CONFESSIONS OF A CHRISTMASHOLIC, set to be adapted into a made-for-TV movie. Now in pre-production in Ottawa under the guidance of producers Andrew Erin and Lex Emanuel of Fireside Pictures, which has produced movies for Hallmark, Lifetime and Canadian TV.
- Why movies have a much harder time becoming "classics" in the streaming age "Cable television rewarded inertia. Streaming rewards decisiveness. If you don’t actively choose a film, it essentially doesn’t exist. Once you’ve watched it, the system will not resurface it" letterboxd.com/email/crowd-...
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- After shifting premiere programming from Hallmark Mystery in early 2025, Hallmark Channel toyed with Sunday mystery debuts, but seems to have settled on sticking to Saturdays for 2026, slating SUGAR & VICE: A HANNAH SWENSEN MYSTERY and NELLY KNOWS MYSTERIES: ALL MANNERS OF MURDER, for March 7 and 14
- Hallmark acquired Jen Lilley-Dan Jeannotte CROWN JEWEL OF LOVE, now known as A ROYAL SETTING, for March 28 debut. A distinctly small budget joint, from Hideaway Pictures, who works primarily with MPCA, and has produced a whole lot of Great American Family content in recent years. Not great signs.
- An industry professional was kind of enough to check the numbers (thank you!), and MISSING THE BOAT garnered a strong 1.448M live + same day total viewers last Saturday, which are very strong numbers for Hallmark Channel outside the holidays.
- At end of December, publicly available Nielsen data (at least ones I know) started omitting total viewership numbers and only sharing demo percentages. So, for instance, can’t see total viewership for MISSING THE BOAT but was No.3 most-watched show on cable and had higher demo than most holiday fare
- The Prince Edward Island-shot Christmas horror movie, UNHOLY NIGHT, Michael Gabriele's feature directorial debut, has landed a distribution deal with UK-based Blue Finch Films. UNHOLY NIGHT, which filmed as BACK FOR THE HOLIDAYS, stars Marc Bendavid and Shailene Garnett variety.com/2026/film/ne...
- Everyone might need to apologize to Christina Milian and Netflix for dissing the premise of MEET ME NEXT CHRISTMAS, because Pentatonix tickets must be going for $$$$$ to pull off the production values here 🤯 🎥 www.instagram.com/reels/DUHUJm...
- New animated feature in development and being presented Berlin Film Festival’s Animation Days, MERRY CHRISTMAS, EARTHLINGS!, based on the late Gerry Anderson's 2006 script, and being produced by Anderson Entertainment, headed by his daughter, Jamie. www.animationmagazine.net/2026/02/gerr...
- The holiday-set AIR BUD RETURNS will hit theaters on August 21. The reboot of the golden retriver-sports franchise, now under the auspices of Air Bud Entertainment and distributed by Cinemark, will culminate with a run at the Christmas tournament championship. deadline.com/2026/02/air-...
- THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS is really, sincerely funny and it brings our Gen X queen Erika Alexander back into the spotlight where she belongs.
- Answer to this headline an obvious NO Am as excited about a new Nancy Meyers movie as anyone, but if it were a true, holiday-set film, it would be released way before December 25. So, while there could be a scene with a Christmas tree, don't expect THE HOLIDAY 2. www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...
- Quick, which Scrooge is more lifelike?
- Filmento has first-look pics of Johnny Depp's Scrooge and…woof. 📸 x.com/TheFilmento/...
- Welp, guys, it's really happening. Paramount's Johnny Depp as Scrooge in EBENEZER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL is now filming in London, with a theatrical release date of November 13, and near certainty it will be on Paramount+ by mid-December. www.screendaily.com/news/paramou...
- Reposted by Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!do other countries have holidays where they haul some unsuspecting feral animal out of its burrow and use it to predict the future or is that just an us thing
- With notable exceptions of diversity, inclusion and basic competence, there's nothing Hallmark Channel does that Great American Family won't try and copy, only way more cheaply. GAF announced 4 "getaway" movies for February, all of them old (3 from 2022, 1 '24) and widely available on FAST channels
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- "Queen of Christmas" Mariah Carey honored at MusiCares Person of the Year gala ahead of the Grammy's. www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...
- Wagner Moura confirms that LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, which he will both direct and star in, is still a go. variety.com/2026/film/aw...
- Reposted by Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
- Reposted by Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!Macaulay Culkin pays tribute to his on-screen mother Catherine O’Hara: “Mama. I thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much to say. I love you. I'll see you later.”
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- Reposted by Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!One of a kind. She and Eugene Levy were such a great comedy team in so many Christopher Guest films and SCHITT'S CREEK. And of course, her role in HOME ALONE is gonna live forever every Christmas RIP.
- Catherine O’Hara has died at the age of 71, TMZ reports. (www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...)
- I know people say the one thing TMZ is never wrong about are celebrity deaths, but I am hoping this is the time they are. Seems impossible.
- Andie MacDowell joins the cast of A GRAND BILTMORE CHRISTMAS, a.ka. A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS 2: LOVE ACROSS TIME, filming now in North Carolina. The BILTMORE sequel also features Holland Roden, Niall Matter, Jonathan Frakes, Rachel Boston and Wes Brown. www.southernliving.com/exclusive-ha...
- HAPPY HOLLY DAY, f.k.a. HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS, is filming now in Henderson, Kentucky. youtu.be/ulhliXFJh_g?...
- Another interesting Polaha-provided tidbit in this chat is Hallmark asked him to decline THE CHRISTMAS RING (Polaha was originally announced as co-lead, before Ben Hollingsworth), as a "conflict of interest" and gave him the upcoming MISSING THE BOAT as sort of a make-good for the lost role.
- A new day, a new location/event-based Hallmark collaboration movie. KENTUCKY ROSES, starring Andrew Walker and Odette Annable, filmed on location at Churchill Downs, will air May 2, the same day as the Kentucky Derby. www.instagram.com/p/DUDpOb7DWa6/
