Victorian-era miser Ebenezer Scrooge is taken on a journey of self-discovery in the animated retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He's a Christmas character with one of the most famous lines in literature.
Two hit low-budget films that marked the ascension of the "slasher movie" genre -- "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" -- were built around special dates. So it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a Christmas slasher movie.
Sadly, quite a few longtime celebrity relationships came to an end this year. As 2017 winds down, we're looking back at the romances that just couldn't last.
One of the best of the many geeky developments of the 2010's has been the ongoing restoration of weird, old horror movies for release on Blu-ray. The glut of restorations has helped reshape the history of cult cinema .
Edgar Allen Poe might have had a bleak perspective on this month when describing it in The Raven but if he had been able to foresee this month in the cinema then he certainly would have referred to it as the sweet December. Seriously.
The successful movie director Andrew Davis - whom everyone calls Andy - spent more than two summer months back where he came from, which is Chicago, doing something he had never done here or elsewhere, which was hugging and squeezing and kissing his first grandchild. This tiny girl, whose name is Edith - whom everybody called Edie - will one day get to know the city in which she was born, and one powerful way she will be able to do that will be to watch the movies her grandfather has made here.
What do you need to make a Christmas movie? On a basic level, you obviously need a Christmastime setting. That's why anything with holiday decorations, from Die Hard to Eyes Wide Shut , counts.
Also joining the special, which will air on Easter Sunday, April 1, is British theatre director David Leveaux, a five-time Tony Award nominee. "Alice Cooper, whose theatricality is the stuff of legend, is the perfect rock star to play Herod in our live production," said Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment.
Lifetime announced the premiere date and released the first trailer for the original movie "A Tale of Two Coreys" on Thursday. The movie is based on the true story of the rise and fall of 80s' iconic actors Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, with Feldman serving as an executive producer.