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Exclusive: Production is about to get underway on Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take on Mojang/Microsoft’s Minecraft, and sources are telling us that Jack Black is joining the cast of the Jason Momoa-led movie.

The pic’s plot is under wraps, with writing credits still being determined. We hear Black is playing the role of Steve.

Also starring in Minecraft are Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen. The Mojang sandbox title is the bestselling video game of all time, with 300 million copies sold and nearly 140M monthly active players.

The Minecraft film hails from Vertigo, co-financier Legendary, Mojang/Microsoft and Momoa’s On the Roam. Jared Hess is directing. Producers include Roy Lee, Jon Berg, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Momoa, Torfi Frans Olafsson, Vu Bui and the late Jill Messick. EPs are Todd Hallowell, Kayleen Walters, Brian Mendoza and Jonathan Spaihts.

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Back when Peter and Bobby Farrelly were still making movies as a team, Jack Black starred for them in one of their big comedy hits, Shallow Hal. He's now set to reunite with the sibling duo for new Christmas film Dear Santa.

The Farrellys are also back together for this one — though Bobby is actually directing, while Peter produces and co-writing the script with his brother and Ricky Blitt.

Dear Santa, which sprung from an original idea from Dan Ewen, focuses on a young boy, who in writing his yearly note to Santa, mixes up the letters and sends it to Satan instead.

This is one that has been on the Farrellys' radar for more than a decade now, originally set up at 20th Century Fox as Dear Satan, but now squatting at Paramount.

The cast also includes Robert Timothy Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, Pj Byrne, Jaden Carson Baker,...

Jack Black is reuniting with Bobby and Peter Farrelly for Dear Santa, a Christmas comedy with a twist of satanic panic! Black teamed with the Farrelly Brothers for 2001’s cringe comedy Shallow Hal, starring Black as Hal, a man who falls in love with a 300-pound woman because of her inner beauty. The crude humor film is a product of its time, featuring Gweneth Paltrow and Jason Alexander. Dear Santa is entirely different and sounds like something worth raising your horns for.

According to Deadline, Dear Santa centers on a young boy who, in writing his yearly note to Santa, mixes up the letters and sends them to Satan instead. Black recently teased the project on social media by posting pictures of himself enjoying an elaborate Christmas display. In the photos, Black poses in the back of a brightly-lit penguin and reindeer standee. The mysterious images sent Black’s loyal fanbase into a frenzy,...

Remember “Shallow Hal?” That’s the comedy from the Farrelly Brothers that stars Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow. But what it’s really remembered for is being incredibly offensive with the use of a fat suit and never-ending weight jokes. Well, good news! The folks who brought you “Shallow Hal” are ready to team up again for a new holiday comedy, “Dear Santa.”

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According to Deadline, Jack Black is set to star in the upcoming comedy film, “Dear Santa,” which will be directed by Bobby Farrelly, who is also producing alongside his brother, Peter, and Jeremy Kramer.

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It’s likely not a project we’ll be covering much here on Bloody Disgusting, but Deadline reports today that Jack Black is reteaming with the Farrelly Brothers for a Christmas comedy titled Dear Santa, and the plot synopsis notably hints at some sinister horror elements.

Coming soon from Paramount, “The movie centers on a young boy, who in writing his yearly note to Santa, mixes up the letters and sends it to Satan instead.”

At the very least, we’ll be keeping our eyes on this one…

Robert Timothy Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, Pj Byrne, Jaden Carson Baker, Kai Cech and Austin Post will star alongside Jack Black.

Deadline notes in their report this afternoon, “The current working draft is by the Farrelly Brothers and Ricky Blitt, with the original idea from Dan Ewen.”

Bobby Farrelly will direct, with Peter Farrelly on board to produce.

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After more than 20 years, Jack Black is reteaming with his Shallow Hal filmmakers the Farrelly Brothers for the Paramount comedy Dear Santa.

The feature centers on a child who intends to write a letter to Santa Claus, but mixes up the letters and sends it to Satan instead.

Bobby Farrelly will direct and produce, with brother Peter Farrelly producing along with Jeremy Kramer. The Farrelly brothers penned the script with Ricky Blitt, the writer behind the 2005 Johnny Knoxville feature The Ringer. The story came from an original idea from Dan Ewen, known for the John Cena comedy Playing With Fire.

Black leads a cast that includes Robert Timothy Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, Pj Byrne, Jaden Carson Baker and Kai Cech.

The Farrelly Brothers have comedy hits dating back decades including Dumb and Dumber; Me, Myself & Irene; There’s Something About Mary; and Kingpin. Bobby Farrelly is in theaters...

Exclusive: Jack Black and brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the team behind the 2001 comedy Shallow Hal, look to be reuniting for the holidays — and bringing an infamous character along for the sleigh ride. Sources tell Deadline that Black is set to star in the Christmas comedy Dear Santa with Bobby Farrelly set to direct and Peter Farrelly on board to produce with Bobby and Jeremy Kramer.

The movie centers on a young boy who, in writing his yearly note to Santa, mixes up the letters and sends it to Satan instead. Black recently teased the project on social media when he posted a photo of him posing with Christmas decorations with no context — it got everyone talking about what it could be.

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The film also will star Robert Timothy Smith, with a supporting cast that includes Keegan-Michael Key,...

The Oscars Best Documentary Feature race, which set a new record for entries in December when it passed the previous record of 170, has now left all previous years in the dust with 240 eligible films.

An additional 25 documentary features were placed in the members-only online screening room devoted to the category on Saturday, in what the Academy told voters would be “the final batch” of this year’s entries. It was the last of seven groups of documentaries that qualified and were placed into the screening room: 25 in July, 12 in August, 16 in September, 33 in October, 36 in November, a huge group of 93 in December and now 25 in January.

Academy rules put in place because of the Covid-19 pandemic made it easier than usual for documentaries to qualify for the Oscars this year, which opened the door for a field that obliterated the previous record, which was set in 2017. Films could qualify simply...

Last month the documentary feature Dear Santa proved to be the perfect film to coincide with the upcoming holiday. And though this week’s doc is only a couple of days away from its holiday, it couldn’t be more timely and relevant to today’s headlines. This coming Monday our nation once again celebrates the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Of course, he wasn’t as revered then, during his own lifetime, as he is now. Some groups openly despised him. At the top of that list, white supremacists like the Ku Klux Klan may have been the most vocal (and violent). But Dr. King had a more powerful enemy, very close to the President, none other than “G-man number one” J. Edgar Hoover, who put considerable effort into spying on and discrediting him. How did Hoover’s obsession over King begin? And just how far did it go?...

The Academy has added 93 more films to the members-only screening room devoted to entries in the Best Documentary Feature category, bringing the total number of eligible contenders to a record-shattering 215.

The previous record for entries was 170 in 2017. And this year’s crop of nonfiction films is expected to pass that number by an even bigger margin — at least 50 — once a final, smaller group of films is added to the screening room in January.

New eligibility rules that were passed in the wake of the Covid-19 theater closings made it easier for documentaries to qualify this year by allowing them to do so by playing at film festivals, even virtual ones, and by easing requirements for theatrical runs. In an email to members detailing the new additions, the Academy said, “The Documentary Branch Executive Committee felt it was important to be inclusive and supportive of documentary filmmakers in this unprecedented and challenging year.

As we enter the throes of awards season more and more films are starting to make their qualifying runs in what is expected to be a very different kind of season. For starters, Searchlight Pictures is set to release Chloe Zhao’s buzzy pic of existential wanderlust Nomadland starring Frances McDormand for its virtual qualifying run starting today before expanding in 2021.

The film, which is set to run virtually at the Film Lincoln Center through December 11, follows Fern in the midst of the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada. We take a journey alongside Fern as she packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. This marks the third feature for Zhao and features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration...

Well, it looks like you’ve exercised your culinary skills and finally finished off the last of the leftovers from last week’s big holiday meal. It must be time to move on to the next big holiday looming in the not-so-distant future. After the decorations are all in place, the gift list can be tackled. Since we’re being told that it still won’t be safe enough to gather in big groups, that list may be a tad shorter this year. Perhaps instead of wrapping up ‘merch’ that would be tossed in the back of the closet…or re-gifted…or returned to the store, you may want to consider helping those in need. But where should you start? A terrific new documentary should provide you with loads of inspiration, all sparked by hundreds, no thousands, of letters and cards scrawled in pencil and crayon whose content begins with Dear Santa.

Chicago – Now that the socially distanced Thanksgiving is past us, it’s time to turn to Christmas and the films that are associated with that holiday. Documentary director Dana Nachman has a series of emotional and true stories in her latest film “Dear Santa,” an overview of a gift-giving charity that starts with a child’s letter.

“Dear Santa” highlights the 100-year-old Operation Santa program of the United States Postal Service (Usps). Each year, of course, hundreds of thousand of kid’s letters to Santa Claus end up at the Post Office. Through Operation Santa, the Usps makes it possible for the public to safely adopt these letters and make a child’s holiday dreams come true. The documentary travels around the country, and focuses on select Operation Santa stories and people … some in massive programs like New York City and others in small towns where the post office is the heart of the community.

The first all-virtual edition of the Doc NYC festival of nonfiction films announced its 2020 lineup on Thursday, with 107 feature documentaries about everyone from John Belushi to Jamal Khashoggi and Pope Francis to Frank Zappa,

The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”

Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.

The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...

This year hasn’t offered us a lot of joy. That’s about to change with the upcoming documentary “Dear Santa.” The movie follows the tradition of the U.S. Postal Service’s tradition of fielding thousands of letters from kids to Santa and helping their Christmas wishes come true.

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“Dear Santa” was directed by Dana Nachman (“Pick of the Litter“).

Continue reading ‘Dear Santa’ Trailer Tells The Uplifting Story Of The ‘Operation Santa’ Program at The Playlist.

"The Christmas Spirit is..." IFC Films has revealed a teaser trailer for the lovely holiday documentary called Dear Santa, profiling the Usps' (United States Postal Service) 100-year-old program called "Operation Santa". If you ever wrote a letter to Santa, you know what this is all about. Each year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa arrive at Post Offices around the country. Through Operation Santa, the United States Postal Service makes it possible for the public to safely adopt these letters and make children's dreams come true. The film invites audiences along for the magic of this massive endeavor. This timeless documentary film captures the warmth and spirit of Christmastime through the lens of this great American tradition, provoking audiences throughout the world to ask themselves how they can make the world a better place, one gesture at a time. From the same doc filmmaker behind the films Pick of the Litter and Batkid Begins.

How essential is the U.S. Post Office? Not only will they be crucial in the 2020 election, each year they help to save Christmas for Americans across the country. Their good work is documented in “Dear Santa,” a new documentary film about Usps’ “Operation Santa” program.

IFC Films is gift wrapping Dana Nachman’s documentary “Dear Santa” for release in theaters and on demand on December 4, and the adorable first trailer for the film made available Thursday features interviews with kids who all send their own letters to Santa up in the North Pole in the hopes of getting presents under their Christmas trees each year.

Turns out there’s a whole team of “elves” working in the U.S. Post Office who process hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa. And while they’re not literally working at the North Pole, they are based in “Operation Santa” centers that are...

IFC Films is getting into the holiday spirit a little early as it has acquired the North American rights to documentary Dear Santa directed by Dana Nachman. The family-friendly Christmas feature docu takes a look at Operation Santa, a 100-year-old program of the United States Postal Service which connects children with Kris Kringle himself. Dear Santa will kick off the holiday season with its December 4 release date.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa arrive at Post Offices around the country. Through Operation Santa, the Usps makes it possible for the public to safely adopt these letters and make children’s dreams come true. In 2019, Nachman received unprecedented access to the beloved program to make the docu. From big metropolitan cities to small towns, the film takes audiences on a magical journey as it spotlights various Operation Santa Centers all across the country.

Christmas came early this year. IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to “Dear Santa,” a documentary about the U.S. Post Office’s “Operation Santa” program that helps get children’s letters to Santa in the hands of those who can help make kids’ Christmas wishes come true.

Dana Nachman, who directed the documentaries “Pick of the Litter” and “Batkid Begins” about the viral “Batkid” sensation, directed “Dear Santa.” And IFC Films will release the documentary on December 4 during the 2020 holiday season.

For 100 years already, the Post Office has run its “Operation Santa” program, which filters hundreds of thousands of letters addressed to Santa and delivers them not to the North Pole but to “Operation Santa” centers around the country, whether in New York City or in small towns where the Post Office is often the heart of the community. From there, the letters are sent, often to strangers,...

IFC Films has picked up the North American rights to director Dana Nachman’s documentary Dear Santa, about the U.S. Postal Service’s 100-year-old ‘Operation Santa’ program to answer letters from kids to Santa Claus.

A 2020 holiday season release from Dec. 4 is planned for the family-friend pic. The United States Postal Service allowed Nachman and her filmmaking team access to their ‘Operation Santa’ program during the 2019 holiday season.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of letters sent to Santa arrive at post offices countrywide and the United States Postal Service has made the dreams of children-in-need come true ...

IFC Films has picked up the North American rights to director Dana Nachman’s documentary Dear Santa, about the U.S. Postal Service’s 100-year-old ‘Operation Santa’ program to answer letters from kids to Santa Claus.

A 2020 holiday season release from Dec. 4 is planned for the family-friend pic. The United States Postal Service allowed Nachman and her filmmaking team access to their ‘Operation Santa’ program during the 2019 holiday season.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of letters sent to Santa arrive at post offices countrywide and the United States Postal Service has made the dreams of children-in-need come true ...

Netflix has confirmed that 26 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in November. Leading off the lineup is the eagerly awaited Martin Scorsese crime drama “The Irishman” starring Academy Awards champs Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. You’ll have to wait till the end of the month to see that Oscar frontrunner.

Before then, you can stream another strong contender for year-end awards: season 3 of “The Crown,” with Oscar winner Olivia Colman taking over the role of Queen Elizabeth II from Claire Foy, who bagged an Emmy for her efforts.

In the lead-up to Christmas, Netflix is programming a slew of holiday fare, including the movies “Dear Santa,” “Holiday Rush” and “Let It Snow” as well as a Yuletide-themed edition of “The Great British Baking Show.”

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in November...

Happy Thursday, Grey's Anatomy fans. We have some pretty interesting news for you guys in this report. According to the folks over at Entertainment Weekly, we're about to see Grey's Anatomy introduce yet another Derek Shepherd sister into the mix! That's right, guys. This new sister will be named Kathleen Shepherd. Kathleen is currently scheduled to be introduced in a season 15 episode that revolves around character Amelia Shepherd. Entertainment Weekly pointed out that the other Derek Shepherd sisters who have appeared in the past are: Liz Shepherd played by actress Neve Campbell and Nancy Shepherd played by actress Embeth Davitz. Kathleen's existence was first mentioned way, way back in season 3. Now, we're finally going to get to meet her! The only other information that Entertainment Weekly had to share about this new Kathleen Shepherd sister is that she also has a doctorate. She's a psychiatrist. We also know who has...

Director Clay Kaytis’ “The Christmas Chronicles” isn’t going to make audiences believe in the power of Christmas, let alone stoke the spirit of the holiday season, but boy does it exhaust itself trying. The family-friendly adventure, about two kids whose Christmas Eve mission to capture Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) leads to helping him save the holiday, plays like a love letter to producer Chris Columbus’ previous works without ever distinguishing itself. With its saccharine score, saturated cinematography, and trite platitudes, the film is formulaic and forgettable except for Russell’s performance as the lovable legend.

Christmastime used to be a season filled with warmth, laughter and love in the cozy Pierce home. But since dad Doug (Oliver Hudson) died in a tragic firefighting accident, single mom Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) has been scrambling to restore some normalcy to her fractured family. One member who is absolutely excited for Santa’s...

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Netflix has the deepest offerings of Christmas movies in the streaming world. Make sense of them here!

Christmas is a stressful time of year for many people.

There are gifts to buy, family to see, and cars to dig out of the snow. Thankfully, the holiday cheer makes up for a lot of it. And when holiday cheer can't get you all the way there, there are Christmas movies to make up the rest.

further reading: The Best Christmas Movies Available to Stream

Netflix has the deepest roster of Christmas movies of all the major streaming options. So we've compiled a list of the best Christmas movies available on Netflix.

Be sure to point out any we've missed!

Black Mirror: White Christmas (2014)

Those looking for Christmas cheer won't find it here. Black Mirror isn't necessarily known for its happy endings and it's 2014 Christmas special, "White Christmas" is no different.

One little boy has found the quickest way onto Santa’s naughty list – directly insult the big man in red himself.

The Virginian boy decided he was not going to follow the status quo when writing his annual letter to Santa, with the 6-year-old not mincing words to jolly Saint Nick.

The young Santa skeptic’s mother, Sarah McCammon, shared her son’s hilariously brutal note on Twitter Sunday. By Monday, it went viral with hundreds of comments, thousands of likes and retweets.

“Dear Santa, I’m only doing this for the class,” the young boy said in his introduction.

It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas for Lee Brice.

The 38-year-old singer-songwriter recorded a lovely rendition of the classic carol “O Holy Night,” and People has your first chance to listen to the holiday tune and see the accompanying video.

The country star sings in front of frosted fir trees, with a bright spotlight shining behind him. The video was filmed in a Nashville studio back in September.

Brice’s version of the song appears on a new compilation album called Winter Wonderland, which also features other chart-toppers of the country music scene. Tim McGraw lends his voice to “Dear Santa,...

The holidays are here, and in between the cookies and presents we’re all going to want one thing: some good (and not so good) TV.

With Christmas and Hanukkah just a few sleeps away, we’ve gathered all the TV show and movie marathons over the weekend so you can enjoy your favorite shows and movies during downtime.

As is the annual tradition, A Christmas Story will play on repeatedly Dec. 24–25 so you’ll never miss a beat of little Ralphie’s quest for a Red Ryder B.B. gun. For those who prefer to watch their usual TV shows,...

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It’s the holiday season where most are thinking egg nog, fluffy snow, decorating cookies and Santa Claus. But if director Michael Dougherty has anything to say about it with his latest film Krampus, this festive time of year will include a darker Christmas legend whose shadow over pop culture is growing.

Ancient folklore warns of Krampus, a myth that has been traced back centuries throughout European cultures. Santa rewards the nice; Krampus punishes the naughty. Santa brings laughter and joy; Krampus unleashes darkness and mayhem. Santa gives presents; Krampus takes souls.

Dougherty says, “The same way that Americans send out Christmas cards, Europeans have this rich tradition of sending out Krampus cards. I was shown these beautiful illustrations of this creature called Krampus, who stole children, and images of people cowering in fear. Still, they had such a fun, mischievous quality, similar to our Halloween. I found that appealing...

Make sure this album is on your list this holiday season. The Krampus – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will release digitally on December 4, 2015, on Back Lot Music.

The album features the original music created by composer Douglas Pipes (Monster House, Trick ‘R Treat), pre-orders available now on iTunes. A CD is forthcoming, while Waxwork Records will distribute the soundtrack on vinyl, pre-orders available starting December 4th at www.waxworkrecords.com. The digital album also features a bonus track of the popular tune “Carol of the Bells,” rewritten and appropriately retitled “Krampus Karol of the Bells.”

When creating the score, Pipes wanted to remain true to the spirit of Christmas. “We used melodies of Christmas carols, sometimes just fragments, sometimes altered, as well as traditional Christmas instruments throughout,” said Pipes. He knew it was going into dark fantasy-horror territory, but to make the score unique Pipes created a theme for Krampus...

Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is for this fellow former Bachelor contestant to show up in Paradise. Ok, not really, but that was basically the gist of the letters written by the Bachelor in Paradise stars to producers when they agreed to join the cast of the franchise's hit spinoff that gives them a second chance at love. And when E! News hit the gorgeous set of Bachelor in Paradise in Mexico, we asked fan-favorites such as Ashley Iaconetti, Ashley Salter, Tenley Molzahn, Mikey Tenerelli and more to reveal who they were hoping to date in Paradise and their answers are definitely...surprising! It sounds like Clare Crawley, the only cast member to return from the first season, was a popular pick...

Let me begin this recap with a bold prediction: Season 7 of The Voice, despite being the weakest in the history of NBC’s singing competition, will be the first to launch a chart-topping, stadium-filling superstar.

I will stop short, however, of predicting which contestant gets the job done for the only reality franchise where the slightest hint of negativity is greeted by producers in Hazmat suits, sealed in plastic biohazard bins and shipped to landfills in deepest New Jersey. (I live in the Garden State, so that joke is officially not offensive.)

I mean, let’s face it: At noon today,...

It's The X Factor semi-final already - that's come around quick, hasn't it?

The final four acts have only got two songs each to sing to convince judges and public they should be in next week's finals at Wembley. Fleur, Lauren, Andrea and Ben will be performing one Christmas song each, and another track of their own choosing.

Join us back here at 8pm when we will be live blogging everything as it happens.

21:35So, that's it for tonight, we're off to watch I'm a Celebrity semi-final now and we'll see you back here tomorrow night for the results show!

21:35Lots of love for Ben and Fleur on Twitter tonight. My semi-final favourites were Andrea and Fleur.

21:31Tomorrow's results show will feature Fifth Harmony, Idina Menzel and a special guest and last year's winner, Sam Bailey.

21:30So that's all Lauren, Fleur, Andrea and Ben can do.

You know it's the holidays when Lifetime starts rolling out their Christmas movies.

Their impressive array of films is like a cinematic advent calendar filled with Christmas spirit, stubborn women, undercover Santas, guardian angels, secret wishes, broken hearts, yuletide joy and lots and lots of happy endings.

So, we stuffed ourselves with sugarplums, washed them down with eggnog and watched a dozen of Lifetime's finest holiday fare to find out the most important morals of these seasonal stories. Here are 20 valuable lessons learned from a Lifetime Christmas movie marathon.

1. As Christmas in the City taught us, never Ever fire Santa...

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As the season of Yule approaches, James lists the film-related gadgets he'd love for Christmas...

(Nb: This column contains spoilers for Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness and possibly your own Christmas Day if you do actually get certain presents that you were not expecting at all. I'm sorry if I blew the surprise and I'll make it up to you by letting you win all the Christmas cracker-pull contests.)

Christmas is coming! Deck the halls! "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!" Yippee-kay-ay and let's watch Die Hard! Fa la, la la la!

Carol singing! Baby Jesus! Overly-rich food! Family board games! It's A Wonderful Life! Giving presents! Getting presents! Getting presents? Oh, damn.

I knew I'd forgotten something. You may have overlooked it as well. The crucial pre-Christmas questions are: What gifts are you getting and what gifts have you got (or...

The North Pole is known for wonder and whimsy, not it's Wi-Fi signal. Perhaps that's why Santa still depends on snail mail to uncover the wishes of kids around the world. We're happy that Mr. Claus still has kids licking stamps, or else we would miss out on scrawly, heartwarming requests like these. Emails and Instagram are quick, but they'll never replace the personality that comes through when you put pen, paper and child together. 1. And The List Goes On …The daughter of Deadspin's Drew Magary may have the most ambitious Christmas list we've seen. From the sensible (a bead...

Thoroughly enjoying some Christmas festivities, Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes showed up at the 106.1 Kiss FM Jingle Ball 2013 in Dallas, Texas on Monday night (December 2).

The “Way” songstress (rocking a white scuba neoprene skirt by Laquan Smith) and her Wanted boyfriend hammed it up with local deejay J-Si Chavez from the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning show backstage at the American Airlines Center while shutterbugs snapped up pics.

Ariana was just one of the evening’s performers, along with Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony, and prior to the gig she shared some holiday cheer with her Twitter followers.

Grande tweeted, “Dear Santa, what happened to the plan we had? I checked the news and it said it’d be a sunny day… make it go away #SnowInCalifornia.”...

Thoroughly enjoying some Christmas festivities, Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes showed up at the 106.1 Kiss FM Jingle Ball 2013 in Dallas, Texas on Monday night (December 2).

The “Way” songstress and her Wanted boyfriend hammed it up with local deejay J-Si Chavez from the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning show backstage at the American Airlines Center while shutterbugs snapped up pics.

Ariana was just one of the evening’s performers, along with Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony, and prior to the gig she shared some holiday cheer with her Twitter followers.

Grande tweeted, “Dear Santa, what happened to the plan we had? I checked the news and it said it’d be a sunny day… make it go away #SnowInCalifornia.”...

Handmade sterling silver “Devil Horns” necklace with black diamond fingertips. For the headbanger that has everything. $399.

The horrorfiling cool owner of Destroy the Brain has been kind enough to give me carte blanche when it comes to what gets featured for the Coffin Couture column. Which is great, since I’ve got lots of scary and metal things to share with you. But this week is sort of special since I’m sharing my 2013 Christmas Wish List with you. But not because I’m hoping for the handmade sterling silver Devil Horn necklace above to show up under my tree yes I am, but because I’m thinking many of you will be making last minute revisions to your lists because you had no idea there was such a thing as sterling silver devil horns that only Dio could love more than you.

The one above includes some snazzy black...

An 8-year-old’s sweet letter to Santa made it onto ‘Gma’ after he selflessly asked only to have the school bullies stop teasing his sister. Ryan asked Santa to give Amber a moment of happiness and let her meet her favorite band Big Time Rush. Read the letter that made it happen!

8-year-old Ryan Suffern wrote the most touching letter about his twin sister Amber. The girl struggles with her weight and is much bigger than Ryan, which is the source of vicious bullying at school. To make her happy, he only wanted her to be able to meet her favorite band, Big Time Rush. Get your tissues ready, and read Ryan’s caring letter to Santa right here — and find out the happy ending of his efforts!

8-Year-Old’s Letter To Santa Asks To Stop Twin Sister’s Bullying

Ryan & Amber’s mom, Karen Suffern asked to her kids...

Once Upon a Time has dipped into the Whedonverse yet again to fill a guest-starring role.

Amy Acker, who had roles on both Joss Whedon’s Angel and Dollhouse, will visit ABC’s fantastical freshman drama as a romantic interest for both Grumpy (of the Seven Dwarves) and his surly Storybrooke counterpart, Leroy, in a late winter episode that delves into the grouch’s backstory.

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Lee Arenberg (Grumpy/Leroy) cheered the casting via Twitter, saying that on Friday he was “living the dream” working opposite both Acker and Ginnifer Goodwin (aka...

Jason Priestley is all for Shannen Doherty's new adventure in reality TV.

We announced Thursday (July 21) that the tentatively titled "The Shannen Doherty Project" is coming in early 2012. After an initial reaction of "Oh my goodness," the former Brenda's "twin brother" Brandon from "Beverly Hills, 90210" tells Zap2it that he wishes her "the best. I always wish Shannen the best."

Priestley surely isn't lacking for his own projects these days. On the immediate horizon is a four-episode arc on the Syfy series "Haven" that starts Friday, Aug. 5. He also directed one of the tales, in which he plays a biologist whose unusual traits -- not out of place in eerie Haven, Maine -- are investigated by visiting sleuth Audrey Parker (Emily Rose).

"I like the show a lot," Priestley says of the Stephen King-inspired drama. "The reason I initially started watching it is that [executive producer] Shawn Piller is an old friend of mine.