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Film Mode Entertainment has come on to handle worldwide sales at EFM and co-produce the comedic thriller CATnip starring Chevy Chase, Bruce Dern and Joey Lauren Adams, which has begun production in Los Angeles.

Nyle Cavazos Garcia directs the story about a struggling family who move into an apartment and find their hopes of a fresh start are upended by a terrifying colony of feral cats. Anna Clols has also joined the cast, which includes Jake Busey, and Lorelei Linklater.

Keli Price is producing through his Price Productions alongside Garcia through Small Town Pictures, while Javier C. Ortiz and Amado DeHoyos are executive producers.

Exclusive: Chevy Chase (Community), Bruce Dern (Palm Royale) and Joey Lauren Adams (Greedy People) are set to topline CATnip, a thriller with comedic elements from writer-director Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Clean). Anna Clols, an executive producer on the project, will also star.

Set to begin shooting in Los Angeles in February, the indie watches as a struggling family’s fresh start in a run-down apartment building turns into a fight for survival as a horde of feral cats unleashes terror, revealing the dark and deadly horrors lurking within its walls.

Other in the cast include Jake Busey, Geoffrey Arend, Keli Price, Lorelei Linklater, Charlotte Kirk, Brooke Bundy, Kylee Levien, and River Jose. Price is producing under his Price Productions banner, along with Garcia under his Small Town Pictures banner, with Javier C. Ortiz and Amado DeHoyos executive producing. Price also negotiated deals on behalf of the production.

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It’s not like Chevy Chase hasn’t taken the money and ran like the wind in recent years. He’s been shilling the low-rent “35th Anniversary Christmas Vacation Legacy Box Limited Edition” on his Instagram account, selling scraps of old SNL costumes on his website and cashing checks for quick cameos in low-budget movies like The Christmas Letter.

But his latest cash grab is somehow sadder, mainly because he no longer seems up to the task. In an Instagram Reel posted earlier today, Chase is selling the virtues of Kalahari Resorts, a loose network of indoor waterparks located in cold-weather locations around the Midwest.

Fair enough. The Chase brand is certainly associated with vacations. But what can we make of this home (I’m guessing home — he sure didn’t take it at the Kalahari) video in which the SNL veteran needs half a dozen jump cuts to sputter...

There might be a bucket full of comedies and Christmas movies out there that have become a holiday staple for audiences. But over the years, nothing could compete with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Born on the night of December 1, 1989, the movie saw its national debut and quickly became a new holiday favorite for fans.

A still from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) | image: Warner Bros.

But now, it has been 35 years since its release. And a lot can change within that span of time—careers grow and fall, people retire and some even tragically pass away. So let’s check out where the cast of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is now.

1. Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold

The 1989 movie Christmas Vacation was the third installment in a series of 1980s vacation films starring Chevy Chase in the role of family patriarch Clark Griswold.

He had previously appeared as the father figure in...

Have you seen one of those viral posts promising a Christmas Vacation sequel this holiday season? Could it be that Chevy Chase might electrocute himself once again in pursuit of being the jolliest house on the block? Fans got their hopes up after seeing promises like this one on Facebook, Reddit, Threads, and other social media:

The poster promises more Griswold fun, with a message that reads: “Christmas Vacation Redux!!! December!!! Get ready for holiday chaos like never before in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation Redux. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo return as the Griswolds, now retired and determined to celebrate their first Christmas of freedom until the whole gang shows up to turn their quiet plans into pure pandemonium. Streaming this December on Amazon Prime Video, it's the reunion you've been waiting for with twice the laughs and all the holiday spirit.”

Given all the Christmas Vacation crap Chase is hawking on his website,...

Fan Expo San Francisco is right around the corner, and with it will come some particularly exciting panels that attendees won't want to miss. The latest event in the Fan Expo circuit of conventions, Fan Expo San Francisco will feature an impressive schedule of panel discussions touching on a wide variety of subjects, including movies, TV shows, comic book adaptations, video games, science fiction, cosplay, and anime. The most exciting panels, however, are the ones that will feature Fan Expo San Francisco's celebrity guests attending to mingle and discuss their popular works with fans.

The schedule for Fan Expo San Francisco will take place across three days, starting Friday, November 29th and going until Sunday, December 1st in the titular city's Moscone Center West convention venue. The panels are by far the hottest-anticipated events of the entire schedule, including several notable panels hosted by ScreenRant. The most captivating of these...

For a lot of folks, it’s become tradition to spend the holiday season watching Clark Griswold celebrate with his family/suffer several traumatic brain injuries in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s like a modern It’s a Wonderful Life, if George Bailey didn’t have a Guardian Angel and was constantly fantasizing about cheating on Mary.

Christmas Vacation fans were no doubt thrilled to learn that two of the film’s most memorable (and affordable) stars were set to appear in another Christmas-themed family comedy. Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid teamed up once again for The Christmas Letter, which, as we’ve mentioned before, is about an “unemployed copywriter” who tries to compete with his wealthy friend’s “over-the-top Christmas letter.”

The film’s producer claimed that the movie is a “a fun nod to classics like Christmas Vacation.” In addition to Chase and Quaid, it also features Brian Doyle-Murray,...

Exclusive: Scatena & Rosner Films has acquired worldwide rights to The Christmas Letter, a holiday comedy starring Angus Benfield (The Keeper), Chevy Chase (Community), Randy Quaid (The Last Detail), and Brian Doyle-Murray (Groundhog Day). Marking the feature directorial debut of Tori Hunter, the film is expected to be released in theaters later this year.

The Christmas Letter follows an unemployed copywriter who receives an annual braggadocious Christmas letter from his well-to-do friend who’s great at making our hero feel less than. Tired of being outdone and down on his luck, he gambles everything to give his family a Christmas-letter worthy vacation, and to upstage his wealthy pest.

Written by Michael Cunningham, the flick is produced by Benfield and Michael Cunningham. Daniel Hegel, Ruth Benfield, Gato Scatena, and Jordan Rosner served as executive producers.

“This film is going to be such a fun nod to classics like ‘Christmas Vacation,’ we...