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“Scrooged” – FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — While you might still be picking Halloween candy corn from your teeth, AMC and its AMC+ streaming service has just announced its “Best Christmas Ever” programming event. 

From today through December 25, the network will unspool some 835 hours’ worth of holiday cheer, from Christmas classics like Bill Murray’s Scrooged, Chevy Chase’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and writer/director Richard Curtis’ Love, Actually, to specials like Michael Bublé’s Christmas in Hollywood and holiday series including The Great Christmas Light Fight.

Here’s the full list of AMC’s yuletide offerings: 

12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue

All I Want for Christmas

The American President

Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure

Buster & Chauncey’s Silent Night

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Christmas in Connecticut (1945 & 1992)

The Christmas Shoes

A Christmas Story 2

A Dennis the Menace Christmas

Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-tacular

Elf

Ella Enchanted

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

Four Christmases

Fred Claus

Free Birds

Frosty’s Winter Wonderland

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

Gremlins

Groundhog Day

Happy Feet

A Holiday to Remember

How Murray Saved Christmas

Jack Frost (1979 & 1998)

Joyful Noise

Legend of Frosty the Snowman

The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

The Little Drummer Boy Book II

Love Actually

Love the Coopers

The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper

Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You

Merry Madagascar

Michael Bublé’s Christmas in Hollywood

A Miracle on Christmas Lake

Miracles from Heaven

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee Returns

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon’s Vacation

National Lampoon’s European Vacation

The Nativity Story

Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey

Pinocchio’s Christmas

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

The Polar Express

Richie Rich

Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July

Rudolph’s Shiny New Year

RV

Samantha: An American Girl Holiday

Scrooged

Snow Day

The Sons of Mistletoe

To Grandmother’s House We Go

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Vegas Vacation

White Christmas

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Wish for Christmas

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Zookeeper

The Great Christmas Light Fight (seasons 3-6)

By Stephen Iervolino
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November 2, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX © 2020(LOS ANGELES) — Netflix has released a sneak peek of Shonda Rhimes’ first series as part of her multi-million dollar mega-deal with the streaming giant: the period romantic drama Bridgerton. 

Based on Julia Quinn’s beloved book series, the Shondaland-produced show is set in London in the 1800s, and centers on Phoebe Dynevor’s character, Daphne Bridgerton, and her arranged marriage to the Duke of Hastings. While she initially agrees to the union to appease her parents, she soon finds herself falling for the Duke. 

The teaser is narrated in character by none other than Julie Andrews, who plays gossipy high society writer Lady Whistledown, whose much-read pamphlets spill the high tea about which upper-crust singletons are destined to become an item.

Bridgerton, which also stars Jonathan Bailey, Nicola Coughlan, Ruby Barker and Polly Walker, debuts on Netflix December 25.

By Stephen Iervolino
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Darkroom/Interscope Records(LONDON) — Iconic film composer Hans Zimmer has revealed a bit of back story on how Billie Eilish was chosen to do the theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

As the Oscar-winner tells British GQ, while the No Time to Die team was picking through “a box full of songs lying around” to make a decision, Zimmer came across Eilish’s song, which he describes as “small, leanly produced” and “very personal.”

“I just went, ‘That’s it,'” Zimmer recalls. “And everybody said, ‘Well, but it’s not quite right. It’s not good.’ [I said,] ‘No, no, no, here’s the mistake you’re making: she and [her brother/collaborator] Finneas haven’t seen the movie yet. They don’t know what they’re writing about. Get them on a plane, get them over here.'”

After Eilish and Finneas saw No Time to Die, Zimmer was even further convinced.

“For me, it was undeniable that that was the right way to go,” Zimmer says. “It felt hugely personal; it felt really well crafted. I really liked how lean it was.”

Zimmer even compares Eilish’s “No Time to Die” to Shirley Bassey’s three iconic Bond themes, as well as Adele’s contribution.

“I think everybody discussed what to use, I just kept saying, ‘Nah. Billie and Finneas. We’re done!'” Zimmer says. “I’d never met them, but I felt [that] there’s Shirley Bassey, there’s Adele — everybody who’s ever worked on [Bond] has come at it with a strong style of their own, with conviction and a great commitment. And this song had it. It maintained an intimacy, which I thought was beautiful.”

No Time to Die the movie, which was originally scheduled to premiere this past April, has been delayed to April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Josh Johnson
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iStock/mphillips007(LOS ANGELES) — The 2021 Palm Springs International Film Festival has been canceled due to concerns over COVID-19, but the event’s annual party will soldier on. 

ABC affiliate KESQ-TV first reported the news.

The week-long event, which usually kicks off the Oscar awards season — and whose past winners have paved the way for Academy Award gold for the likes of Joaquin Phoenix and Cynthia Erivo, among many others — was initially bumped from its planned January 7 debut because of the pandemic.

However, instead of running from Feb. 25 through March 8 of next year, organizers have decided to pull the plug entirely save for the festival’s annual gala, which will reportedly go on as planned on February 25. 

Honorees have yet to be announced.

By Stephen Iervolino
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BG020/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images(LOS ANGELES) — After suffering a pregnancy loss, Chrissy Teigen is honoring her late son, Jack, with a new piece of ink. 

On Sunday, while on a “date night” with her husband, John Legend, Teigen, showed off a new wrist tattoo of their son’s name written in cursive.

The new tattoo was positioned just above a forearm tattoo that the Craving cookbook author has that reads “John – Luna – Miles,” a tribute to the “All Of Me” singer and their two children, Luna, 4, and Miles, 2. 

Teigen first shared the heartbreaking news of her pregnancy loss on September 30, alongside a series of black-and-white photos. She was 20 weeks along. 

“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” she began. “We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough.”

The model then took a break from social media for about a month and returned on October 28 with an essay published on Medium revealing more details surrounding the tragic news and how she’s been coping with the grief. 

“Late one night, I was told it would be time to let go in the morning,” she recalled. “I cried a little at first, then went into full blown convulsions of snot and tears, my breath not able to catch up with my own incredibly deep sadness. Even as I write this now, I can feel the pain all over again.”

“I wrote this because I knew for me I needed to say something before I could move on from this and return back to life, so I truly thank you for allowing me to do so,” Teigen wrote. 

By Danielle Long
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