AMC and AMC+ have more than 650 hours of holiday programming planned for this year’s “Best Christmas Ever” lineup kicking off on November 26 and running through December 26, 2023. The lineup includes classic Christmas films, including Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, Elf, and Christmas Vacation. For those who like to celebrate their winter holidays with a serving of horror, Shudder’s offering a new Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas Special and the original film The Sacrifice Game.
This year’s “Best Christmas Ever” schedule also features Christmas with the Campbells, The Apology, and marathons of John Candy, Reese Witherspoon, and Bill Murray films.
Best Christmas Ever 2023:
The Sacrifice Game – Debuts December 8 on Shudder and AMC+
It’s bad enough that boarding school students Samantha and Clara can’t go home for the holidays, but things take a deadly turn when a murderous gang arrives at their doorstep – just in time for Christmas.
This year’s “Best Christmas Ever” schedule also features Christmas with the Campbells, The Apology, and marathons of John Candy, Reese Witherspoon, and Bill Murray films.
Best Christmas Ever 2023:
The Sacrifice Game – Debuts December 8 on Shudder and AMC+
It’s bad enough that boarding school students Samantha and Clara can’t go home for the holidays, but things take a deadly turn when a murderous gang arrives at their doorstep – just in time for Christmas.
- 11/1/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Wesley Mead Dec 19, 2016
Think Christmas TV has always been warm and fluffy? Think again, as we revisit some disturbing vintage festive specials...
The festive season holds long-held ties to the macabre. From the classic novels of Charles Dickens to the melancholy of the Christmas carol canon, Christmas has always harboured a darker side, lurking beyond the tinsel and mince pies. That role has extended to festive television: for every smiles-and-silliness sitcom special, there’s a programme with an altogether more disturbing spin on the season – be that a dramatic Christmas episode imbued with fear and bloodshed, or a family classic whose ostensibly wholesome charms look questionable in retrospect.
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An early mainstay of the medium in its infancy, morality play anthology series were our first taste of a darker Christmastime being translated to television. Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ Back From Christmas...
Think Christmas TV has always been warm and fluffy? Think again, as we revisit some disturbing vintage festive specials...
The festive season holds long-held ties to the macabre. From the classic novels of Charles Dickens to the melancholy of the Christmas carol canon, Christmas has always harboured a darker side, lurking beyond the tinsel and mince pies. That role has extended to festive television: for every smiles-and-silliness sitcom special, there’s a programme with an altogether more disturbing spin on the season – be that a dramatic Christmas episode imbued with fear and bloodshed, or a family classic whose ostensibly wholesome charms look questionable in retrospect.
See related Star Wars: Rogue One enjoys huge opening weekend
An early mainstay of the medium in its infancy, morality play anthology series were our first taste of a darker Christmastime being translated to television. Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ Back From Christmas...
- 12/15/2016
- Den of Geek
Even though Halloween was only just this past Saturday, ABC Family is already looking ahead to Christmas, as the network has announced its official schedule for its annual 25 Days of Christmas. Filled with shows, movies, and all types of specials, ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas has something for pretty much anyone, whether you want to watch a holiday romance like Love Actually (as photographed above), a more family-friendly film, such as Elf or even Harry Potter, or any of the classic Christmas specials involving Frosty, Rudolph, and/or Santa Claus. Check out ABC Family’s full schedule below, and be sure to comment below and let us know what you’ll be watching this December. Tuesday, Dec. 1 7 a.m. The Preacher’s Wife 11 a.m. Disney’s A Christmas Carol 1 p.m. Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas 2:30 p.m. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus 3:30 p.
- 11/4/2015
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
Exclusive: There's no name to the project yet but the Claymation kingpin will be helming the first of a slate of films birthed out a new deal between Gnosis Moving Pictures and Toonz Media Group. The co-financing and production agreement will see the India-based latter invest in several CG-animated films over several years such as Moby & Dick, the action-adventure Nicholas and The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus. Last July, Deadline revealed that Gnosis and Will Vinton…...
- 5/6/2015
- Deadline
Things are getting festive for Star Trek 3 scribes Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, as Deadline reports that the duo has been earmarked for another high-profile project. Currently on the fast track, Winter’s Knight is being rushed into development, hence the need for a sparkly new rewrite on the script. If McKay and Payne commit, then the studio plans to entice Joachin Ronning and Espen Sandberg into the director’s chair(s) once they complete work on Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Dubbed a “Viking-mythology-tinged origin story of St. Nick and Christmas,” Winter’s Knight is based on Wizard Of Oz author L. Frank Baum’s 1902 book, The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus. The original script – penned by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton – was sold in after heated bidding frenzy for a gigantic $1 million dollars.
The steep price of the auction was thought to...
Dubbed a “Viking-mythology-tinged origin story of St. Nick and Christmas,” Winter’s Knight is based on Wizard Of Oz author L. Frank Baum’s 1902 book, The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus. The original script – penned by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton – was sold in after heated bidding frenzy for a gigantic $1 million dollars.
The steep price of the auction was thought to...
- 2/25/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Gnosis Moving Pictures and Vinton Entertainment have signed a co-production deal on a slate of CG animated features for Oscar winner Will Vinton to direct.
The slate includes The Quest, a Monty Python-esque comedy set in outer space that Vinton (pictured) co-wrote with Andrew Wiese and Peter Crabbe. The film will feature the voice of John Cleese.
Jack Hightower, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, is a comedic action adventure about a macho secret agent who shrinks to the size of a hotdog.
Moby & Dick, inspired by the Herman Melville novel and tells of the bond between fathers and sons.
Nicholas, a mix of 3D stop-animation and CGI, is an action–adventure story based on L Frank Baum’s novel, The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.
“Our partnership with animation icon Will Vinton is poised to produce engaging and thought-provoking animated content for children and families from one of the best in the business,” said...
The slate includes The Quest, a Monty Python-esque comedy set in outer space that Vinton (pictured) co-wrote with Andrew Wiese and Peter Crabbe. The film will feature the voice of John Cleese.
Jack Hightower, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, is a comedic action adventure about a macho secret agent who shrinks to the size of a hotdog.
Moby & Dick, inspired by the Herman Melville novel and tells of the bond between fathers and sons.
Nicholas, a mix of 3D stop-animation and CGI, is an action–adventure story based on L Frank Baum’s novel, The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.
“Our partnership with animation icon Will Vinton is poised to produce engaging and thought-provoking animated content for children and families from one of the best in the business,” said...
- 7/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A gritty origin story about… Santa Claus? And he’s a Viking? That’s what studio Sony is betting on after picking up a spec script called Winter’s Knight. Norwegian helmers Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki, Pirates of the Caribbean 5) will direct the “Viking-mythology-tinged” tale, based on the 1902 book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Frank L. Baum. Santa has roots in pre-Christian Norse mythology and ties to the god Odin, so the revisionist story by newbies Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton isn’t that outrageous of a prospect. From the sound of things, we shouldn’t expect something akin to the deranged Rare Exports (too bad). Think Snow White and the Huntsman or Oz the Great and Powerful instead...
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- 3/4/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
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Sony Pictures has just acquired the rights to an awesome-sounding new movie called Winter's Knight. It's a viking mythology based origin story of St. Nick and Christmas. There was an intense bidding war for the film between Sony, Warner Bros. and Universal, but Sony won it, and they paid $1 million for the spec that will be written by newbie scribes Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton.
The studio also landed Kon-Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg to bring the project to life. They will start working on this film after they are finished with Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Apparently the story is based on L. Frank Baum's 1902 book The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus. Baum is also the author of The Wizard of Oz. This has the potential to actually be a pretty epic movie. Here's a little run down on...
Sony Pictures has just acquired the rights to an awesome-sounding new movie called Winter's Knight. It's a viking mythology based origin story of St. Nick and Christmas. There was an intense bidding war for the film between Sony, Warner Bros. and Universal, but Sony won it, and they paid $1 million for the spec that will be written by newbie scribes Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton.
The studio also landed Kon-Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg to bring the project to life. They will start working on this film after they are finished with Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Apparently the story is based on L. Frank Baum's 1902 book The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus. Baum is also the author of The Wizard of Oz. This has the potential to actually be a pretty epic movie. Here's a little run down on...
- 3/3/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
After a bidding war between Universal, Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures, it's the latter studio that has come out on top to pick up a spec script called Winter's Knight. Following in the footsteps of recent revisionist fairytales like Snow White and the Huntsman or developing historical adventures around figures like Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci, the film would tell the origin of Saint Nicholas and Christmas, by way of a Viking-esque tale written by newcomers Ben Lustig & Jake Thornton. The deal at Sony also included Kon-Tiki helmers Joachim Ronning & Espen Sandberg, who will also do Pirates of the Caribbean 5. For those interested in more, the film is based on the 1902 book The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus by Frank L. Baum. Apparently the final deal took some convincing from Michael De Luca, who is eager to bring in the next generation of filmmakers. De Luca did...
- 3/3/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Sean McNamara ("Soul Surfer") has signed on to helm "Young Santa," a live-action adaptation of 'Wizard of Oz' author L. Frank Baum's 1902 book "The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus."
David Casci adapted the screenplay about how a little boy became Father Christmas. Joel Smith, Gudrun Giddings, David Brookwell, Daniel Wagner and Christian Arnold-Beutel are producing.
Famous stop motion animators Rankin-Bass produced a TV special based on the work back in 1985. It was the company's last stop motion effort.
A traditionally animated adaptation was released in 2000, while a new animated version went into development in 2010 but never progressed and has seemingly collapsed.
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David Casci adapted the screenplay about how a little boy became Father Christmas. Joel Smith, Gudrun Giddings, David Brookwell, Daniel Wagner and Christian Arnold-Beutel are producing.
Famous stop motion animators Rankin-Bass produced a TV special based on the work back in 1985. It was the company's last stop motion effort.
A traditionally animated adaptation was released in 2000, while a new animated version went into development in 2010 but never progressed and has seemingly collapsed.
Source: Screen...
- 2/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Soul Surfer director Sean McNamara has signed on to Young Santa, an adaptation of L Frank Baum’s The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.
Joel Smith, Gudrun Giddings, David Brookwell, Daniel Wagner and Christian Arnold-Beutel are producing the live-action feature and Stuart Pollok is on board as executive producer.
David Casci adapted the screenplay about how a little boy became Father Christmas.
“We very much look forward to bringing Sean McNamara’s vision of L Frank Baum’s holiday fantasy to the big screen,” said Smith and Arnold-Beutel. “With such icons known all over the world and a great producing team we believe to create an instant family entertainment classic”.
“It’s always been my dream to direct a Christmas movie and now I have that opportunity with this wonderful script and L Frank Baum story,” added McNamara.”...
Joel Smith, Gudrun Giddings, David Brookwell, Daniel Wagner and Christian Arnold-Beutel are producing the live-action feature and Stuart Pollok is on board as executive producer.
David Casci adapted the screenplay about how a little boy became Father Christmas.
“We very much look forward to bringing Sean McNamara’s vision of L Frank Baum’s holiday fantasy to the big screen,” said Smith and Arnold-Beutel. “With such icons known all over the world and a great producing team we believe to create an instant family entertainment classic”.
“It’s always been my dream to direct a Christmas movie and now I have that opportunity with this wonderful script and L Frank Baum story,” added McNamara.”...
- 2/9/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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