Billy Ray Cyrus Filming Christmas Flick for Hallmark

Actor/country singer Billy Ray Cyrus will be starring in the upcoming Hallmark Channel holiday film, entitled “Christmas in Canaan.” According to an article on HollywoodReporter.com, “The telefilm, slated to air in December, is based on a novel co-written by another country star/actor, Kenny Rogers,...

Gene Simmons to Star in The Christmas Movie

Gene Simmons is starring in an upcoming holiday film, titled The Christmas Movie. The movie is about a young, well-to-do Mary living in modern times, who gets pregnant and ends up in a trailer park. The KISS bass player plays Mary’s Jewish truck-driver father. Other actors to star in the film include...

Marvin to Destroy Christmas

Warner Brothers is looking to revive their animated features franchise with the release of several new episodes featuring Marvin the Martian. Marvin’s new adventures will be a mix of classic animation and computer animation the likes of Polar Express. Not surprisingly, one of the first projects in the...

Blu-Ray ‘A Christmas Story’ Due November

‘A Christmas Story’ is coming to Blu-ray — again. A new perennial classic (the film routinely shows for 24 hours straight every holiday on TBS), ‘A Christmas Story’ was first issued on Blu-ray and HD DVD back in late 2006 as a relatively bare bones edition. Reaction to the...

What happened to the cast of A Christmas Story?

Whatever happened to the cast of A Christmas Story? Ralphie Parker. Actor: Peter Billingsley. Best line: The obscenity substitute: “Oooooh … fuuuuuudge!” Bio: The fair-haired, bespectacled boy was Messy Marvin in the 1980s Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup commercials and went on to be a producer of the...

Hallmark Movie Transforms Town to Christmas

CHESTER, Vt.—It might be spring, but it looks a lot like Christmas in Chester. The Hallmark Channel has transformed the town into “Santaville” for the two-week filming of a television movie “Moonlight and Mistletoe.” The film, produced by Edgewood Studios of Rutland, features Tom...