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With the yuletide season in full swing, one movie that will be played repeatedly throughout many households during the holidays is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The third entry in the Vacation movie franchise turns 35 years old this December and still holds up as one of the most amusing and rewatchable Christmas comedies of all time.

Instead of traveling cross-country to Wally World, overseas to Europe, or Las Vegas to experience Sin City, what sets Christmas Vacation apart is witnessing the Griswolds at home in their Chicago element while hosting several family members for the holidays. As such, there's no better gift than catching up with the Griswolds and finding out what those still alive are up to in 2024 and beyond.

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*Availability in US Release Date  December 1, 1989Runtime  97 minutesCast  Chevy Chase,...

Jimmy Fallon has been on a heater lately, using The Tonight Show as a medicine wagon from which to sell his children’s books, haunted house tours and Christmas albums. But just when you thought a cash-grab comedian couldn’t get any more shameless, along comes Chevy Chase to say, “Hold my holiday beer.”

There’s Chase on Instagram, fast asleep in his chair, waking only long enough to bust open the cumbersomely named “35th Anniversary Christmas Vacation Legacy Box Limited Edition.” Having already sold different versions of this product to us in four different decades, the money-hungry comic is back at it in his Official Chevy Chase Shop, offering a boxed set (Only 300 Available!) that includes:

7 trading cards A custom anniversary poster signed by ChaseTwo limited-edition ornaments A deck of cardsA bag of popcorn One additional insert card

The “additional insert card” is the purported prize here. It could...

Jake Johnson makes his directorial debut with the wild dark comedy, Self Reliance, starring alongside Anna Kendrick and Andy Samberg. The movie revolves around a man who is offered $1 million to star in a dark web competition show where he is hunted for 30 days, but can only be killed when alone. The casting of the ensemble cast was crucial to capturing the right tone, and the movie combines humor, a unique paranoid thriller plot, and themes of connection.

Jake Johnson is making his directorial debut with the wild dark comedy, Self Reliance. Also written by and starring the New Girl alum, the movie revolves around a man down on his luck who is offered the ability to star in a dark web competition show in which he will be hunted for 30 days, and if he survives, he will win $1 million at the end. In order to avoid being a target,...

National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation" is a seminal classic enjoyed by families all across the globe for over three decades. Patriarch Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) just wants his family's holidays to go off without a hitch, but the universe consistently has other plans for the Griswold family. Cousin Catherine (Miriam Flynn), her wild husband Eddie (Randy Quaid), and their family show up unannounced, the cat gets electrocuted, the turkey is ruined, a squirrel hides out in the too-big Christmas tree, the festive light display causes a citywide power outage, and the tree eventually catches fire. Everything that could go wrong on Christmas goes horrifically, laughably, wrong ... but at least Clark can look forward to his annual Christmas bonus to arrive. He spends the majority of the film looking toward this bonus as the last beacon of hope as he drowns in holiday hijinks.

Alas, when the bonus arrives, it's not what Clark had imagined at all.

It’s that time of year when popular Christmas movies are marathoned on television. By now, you are either on your millionth viewing or you’re absolutely sick of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, as the Chevy Chase holiday sequel is a renowned classic that is played every year along with movies like Home Alone, Home Alone 2, A Christmas Story and The Santa Clause. The movie is a family-friendlier entry for the Vacation series that brought John Hughes back to combine his famous Griswold tribe with his penchant for holiday films.

According to People, Christmas Con 2023 has recently jingled its way to Edison, New Jersey. This year, Chevy Chase headlined a reunion with his co-stars from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The Clark Griswold actor joined his on-screen wife, Beverly D’Angelo, Cousin Eddie actor Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn, who portrayed Eddie’s wife in the three Vacation films in which they appeared.

Obscure Christmas movie sequels offer a chance to discover hidden cinematic treasures during the holiday season. Some lesser-known Christmas follow-ups, like National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, failed to gain wide viewership but still have their own charm. Despite their lack of popularity, these obscure sequels and remakes deserve a chance to become someone's favorite part of the holiday movie lineup.

With so many Christmas movies to choose from once the holidays roll around, there are some classics with sequels that slipped under the radar. The holiday season sees the return of beloved seasonal films to watch again and again. Some of the best Christmas movies of all time, like Elf, Home Alone, and It’s a Wonderful Life receive countless rewatches every winter. At the same time, a host of obscure spinoffs, sequels, and remakes of these famed films exist too, though they fail to receive the same enduring popularity.

Christmas is coming at us faster than Santa’s sleigh, which means ’tis the season for streaming Christmas movies. While there are plenty of family-friendly options for parents — from classics like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to new entries like this year’s “Spirited” on Apple TV+ — some may prefer a slightly more raunchy selection, which is where 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” comes in.

“Christmas Vacation” is streaming on several online platforms, including HBO Max, AMC+, The Roku Channel, fuboTV, Philo, and Sling TV. It can also be rented or purchased on VOD platforms, including YouTube, Vudu, Google Play, Apple TV, and Redbox, for 3.99. In addition, AMC will air the film throughout the next few days at 8 or 10 p.m. Et, including on December 21, December 22, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, “Christmas Vacation” was the third and effectively final entry in the classic “National Lampoon” series...

Josh Gad has pulled out all of the stops for his series Reuinited Apart, but it seems he has saved the vest for last. The Frozen star has assembled a murderer's row of talent to pay tribute to the late John Hughes as part of the final episode of his hit web series. The tribute was included as part of his Ferris Bueller's Day Off cast reunion, which serves as the sixth and final episode of the show.

Ferries Bueller's Day Off is just one of many classics John Hughes was responsible for during his storied career. To honor the man's legacy, Josh Gad managed to gather a huge group of talent that starred in his various movies over the years. Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the Vacation movies, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and many more were included as part of the comprehensive montage. Gad had this to say about it on Twitter.

Josh Gad's sixth celebrity cast reunion video is now online, and the newest installment of Gad's Reunited Apart web-series brings together the cast of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Featuring several stars from the movie like Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, and Jennifer Grey, it really goes without saying that anyone who loves the classic comedy movie is going to want to watch this video. As with previous Reunited Apart episodes, the video comes with some awesome surprises as well, and you can watch the complete reunion video below.

As mentioned above, some of the cast members featured in the Josh Gad hosted reunion are Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller), Alan Ruck (Cameron Frye), Mia Sara (Sloane Peterson), and Jennifer Grey (Jeanie Bueller). Of course, no Reunited Apart episode would be complete without its celebrity surprises, and this video has those as well. This includes other cast members Cindy Pickett...

Clark Griswold and family are heading to the small screen, as WarnerMedia has put into development a comedy series for HBO Max called The Griswolds. Johnny Galecki, who played Rusty Griswold in Christmas Vacation, is executive producing The Griswolds with The Middle scribe Tim Hobert writing the series. As it sounds, the half-hour single camera sitcom is based on National Lampoon's Vacation movies, following the day to day lives of the Griswolds when they come home to the Chicago suburbs after their shenanigan-filled vacations.

There have been five official Vacation movies developed by National Lampoon at this point, with each installment featuring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo in the roles of Clark and Ellen Griswold. Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn both show up often in the movie series as well as their friends and neighbors, Eddie and Catherine Johnson. There is also Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure, which...

Recently, Fox released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Bones" episode 9 of season 10. The episode is entitled, "The Mutilation of the Master Manipulator," and it sounds like we're going to see the team investigate the murder of a college professor in their latest case. Brennan has to team up with Aubrey after Booth gets sidelined, and more. In the new, 9th episode press release: The team is going to investigate the murder of a college professor. Press release number 2: When the Jeffersonian team investigates the remains of a college psychology professor, the victim's controversial social experiments on his grad students, are going to garner a list of highly motivated suspects. In the meantime, Booth is going to get sidelined with online traffic school, causing Brennan to team up with Aubrey, and Wendell will struggle with his feelings towards a chemotherapy treatment nurse. Guest stars feature: Michael Grant Terry...

The good news about Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is that it’s not half bad! It’s not half good either, and perhaps I’m feeling a sense of good willing towards it coming down off a high (a four day break from Tiff) – but when it works, it’s funny. When it doesn’t it is strangely like it’s title character, played by Nick Swardson, oddly enduring. Could it be better, more charming, funnier – even more realistic about the porn industry? Indeed: who shoots porn with a Panavision 35Mm camera? Who is even really shooting films with a Panavision 35Mm camera any longer – the porn industry, like VHS have adopted digital video production and distribution long before the mainstream industry had.

This aside, Bucky Larson is a buck-toothed Iowa man-child who is fired from the local supermarket. Down on his luck he escapes Yahtzee night...

Sony Pictures is rolling out its new comedy Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star in theaters this weekend, which follows a young man's unlikely path to adult entertainment stardom. Nick Swardson stars as the title character, who makes a shocking discovery that his parents (Edward Herrmann and Miriam Flynn) were actually porn stars in the 1970s. He leaves his hometown in Iowa and heads to Hollywood, determined he must follow in his parents' footsteps. Our Ryan J. Downey recently sat down with stars Nick Swardson, Stephen Dorff, and Kevin Nealon to discuss this outlandish comedy. Click on the video players below to watch our exclusive interviews with the cast of Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star.

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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star was released September 9th,...

Columbia Pictures is pleased to share with you the new trailer and poster for Happy Madison Productions’ Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star.

Synopsis:

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a new comedy starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, and Stephen Dorff. Bucky (Swardson) is a small town grocery bagger, going nowhere in life…until he discovers that his conservative parents were once adult film stars! Armed with the belief that he has found his destiny, Bucky packs up and heads out to La, hoping to follow in his parents’footsteps.

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star is directed by Tom Brady, written by Adam Sandler & Allen Covert & Nick Swardson and produced by Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Allen Covert, Nick Swardson and David Dorfman.

Starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Edward Herrmann, Kevin Nealon, with Don Johnson and Stephen Dorff, Miriam Flynn, Ido Mosseri, Nick Turturro and Curtis Armstrong,...

Chicago – Does the fact that “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” is receiving a lavish 20th anniversary edition Blu-Ray release make anyone else feel old? Just me? Whether you’re old enough to remember the first “Vacation” or young enough to know Chevy Chase as “that old guy on Community,” this is a lavish collector’s set for a great holiday film timed for holiday shopping.

Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0

Warner Home Video has begun an interesting trend of making Blu-Ray sets for their most beloved films that almost feel more about the collectibles than the movie itself. In some cases (“Blade Runner: The Final Cut,” “The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Edition”), the disc itself includes enough bonus material and a lovingly remastered picture that the collectibles appropriately feel like a companion instead of the main draw. Such is not the case with the set for “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,...

Sixteen years after Chevy Chase loaded up the station wagon and hauled the wife and two kids off on one of his family-bonding vacations, this comic franchise is retracing overly traveled roads. Unfortunately, "Vegas Vacation" is not getting the same kind of laugh mileage as its more supple (excluding "European Vacation") precursors. Still, for those of us with a weak spot for the Griswold clan, there are enough welcome familiarities and slapstick sojourns to titillate, if not entirely tickle, the funny bone. Sagely produced by Jerry Weintraub, "Vegas'" funniest moments are, quite simply, inspired by the neo-neon setting of the land of Wayne Newton.

With the kids self-absorbed in their late-teen situations, papa Clark (Chase) entices his clan, including adoring wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) and kids (Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols), to take yet another family vacation. It's not an idea that they readily warm to, but Clark smartly pitches it as an opportunity for him and Ellen to renew their wedding vows. Packed and strung with plenty of silent-screen-style slapstick, this "Vacation" once again features Chase as the lovably klutzy family man whose eagerness to make the vacation perfect invariably botches things up. Indeed, screenwriter Elisa Bell dutifully follows the raucous road that writer-director John Hughes laid out with such anarchic energy during this franchise's early years. Despite following the same narrative map, "Vegas Vacation" never settles into more than a trip-tick around Las Vegas as the Griswolds are shepherded to one Vegas show -- Siegfried & Roy, Newton, etc. -- after another. There's a feeble story attempt to give Clark a gambling problem and a rather unbelievable interlude when Newton makes some moves on mama Griswold, but there's little comic substance.

While director Stephen Kessler has a smart, sardonic eye on Las Vegas craziness and an eager appreciation for using slapstick, the gags are slackly strung together and lamely punctuated. Not surprisingly, both Chase and D'Angelo have their parts down pat. As the squirrely but square Clark, Chase is a perfect blend of out-of-control compulsiveness, while D'Angelo is winningly radiant as his sweet-and-saucy wife. Still, "Vegas'" chief winnings come courtesy of the well-selected supporting players. Wallace Shawn, as a nettlesome and snide dealer, is a particular highlight, while Randy Quaid is once again a hoot as Clark's metal-brained cousin. As Jilly from Philly, producer Weintraub does an appropriately chilly turn as a guy you don't want to mess with.

Up and down the filmic strip, production values are flush, including William A. Fraker's snazzy cinematography and Carol James' aptly tacky costuming.

VEGAS VACATION

Warner Bros.

A Jerry Weintraub production

Producer Jerry Weintraub

Director Stephen Kessler

Screenwriter Elisa Bell

Story Elisa Bell, Bob Ducsay

Executive producers Matty Simmons,

Susan Ekins

Co-producer R.J. Louis

Director of photography William A. Fraker

Production designer David L. Snyder

Costume designer Carol James

Editor Seth Flaum

Music Joel McNeely

Color/stereo

Cast:

Clark Griswold Chevy Chase

Ellen Griswold Beverly D'Angelo

Cousin Eddie Randy Quaid

Rusty Griswold Ethan Embry

Dealer Wallace Shawn

Audrey Griswold Marisol Nichols

Cousin Catherine Miriam Flynn

Cousin Vickie Shae D'Lyn

Himself Wayne Newton

Themselves Siegfried & Roy

Running time -- 92 minutes

MPAA rating: PG...