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The Best New Christmas Movies (December 2021)
The only reason classic Christmas movies are so cherished is because they came from a time before the great flood of streaming content, back when the idea of a Hallmark Christmas movie was just a glint in the eye of a studio executive. But we no longer have to be beholden to holiday movies we've seen year after year, because Christmas movies are a big business now. This year has been a particularly prolific year for festive films, with Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, and more churning out the cheer like this was the last Christmas we'll ever have. No need to dust off that VHS copy of Miracle on 34th Street, flip on the smart TV and watch a new Christmas movie instead.
Below you'll find the best new Christmas movies coming out in 2021, but if you don't find what you're looking for here, check out our list of where to stream the best Christmas movies on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and more.
NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIES ON HALLMARKNote: Not all images and trailers for Hallmark's movies were available as of press time.
The Nine Kittens of ChristmasBrandon Routh, The Nine Kittens of Christmas
HallmarkPremiered Thursday, Nov. 25 on Hallmark ChannelWe've waited seven years for a sequel to The Nine Lives of Christmas, and we finally got it! Brandon Routh and Kimberly Sustad return for another cat-tastic catastrophe when they're cat-tasked with finding a new cat-home for a cat-litter of cat-kittens. Fact: Kittens and Christmas should be in every movie. [Trailer]
Christmas at Castle Hart
Premiered Saturday, Nov. 27 on Hallmark ChannelIt's not a Hallmark Christmas without a Lacey Chabert movie, and this year's is Christmas at Castle Hart, in which Chabert plays a woman who goes to Ireland to learn about her Irish roots. There, she meets the Earl of Glaslough, who mistakes her for an event planner and has her plan his epic Christmas party. This stuff writes itself. [Trailer]
The Christmas Contest
Candace Cameron Bure and John Brotherton, The Christmas Contest
HallmarkPremiered Sunday, Nov. 28 on Hallmark ChannelI thought this might be a holiday riff on the classic Seinfeld episode, "The Contest," but it's a hands-above-the-table love story about two exes (Hallmark mainstay Candace Cameron Bure and John Brotherton) who become rivals in their town's contest to win money for charity. But what they'll really win is each other's hearts. [Trailer]
Eight Gifts of Hanukkah
Premiered Friday, Dec. 3 on Hallmark ChannelWhy should Christmas get all the fun? Jewish people love to have important jobs in the big city but return to their quaint hometown for the holidays to remember what the holidays are all about and fall in love with someone with a weird occupation, too. The details here are slim — Lucifer's Inbar Lavi celebrates Hanukkah by searching for her secret admirer — but what more do you need?
NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIES ON LIFETIMENote: Not all trailers for Lifetime's movies were available as of press time.
Reba McEntire's Christmas in TuneReba McEntire's Christmas in Tune
LifetimePremiered November 26 on LifetimeCountry star Reba McEntire plays one half of a former music duo who is years past her professional and personal breakup with her longtime partner (John Schneider), but because this is a Christmas movie, their daughter convinces them to reunite for her school concert, and musical genius — and love — flows once again. [Trailer]
Merry Liddle Christmas Baby
Merry Liddle Christmas Baby
LifetimePremiered November 27 LifetimeChild, it was Kelly Rowland's destiny to be a Lifetime Christmas movie star, and the singer/actress returns for her third movie in the Liddle franchise with Merry Liddle Christmas Baby. See, the first movie introduced the characters and brought them love, the second saw the couple take the next step with marriage, so naturally, the third one is all about expanding the family by pushing out some kids. It's right there in the song: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the third movie in the trilogy featuring babies. [Trailer]
Miracle in Motor City
LifetimePremiered November 28 Lifetime Tia Mowry stars in this cheeky film about a Detroit woman who heads up her church's annual Christmas pageant and makes the mistake of overpromising that Motown legend Smokey Robinson will perform. With the help of her ex, they go on a quest to get Smokey and maybe — MAYBE — fan the old flames of love. Does she get Smokey to perform? We may never know... Maybe that picture of her with Smokey Robinson about to perform holds a clue?
A Christmas Dance Reunion
A Christmas Dance Reunion
LifetimePremiered December 3 on LifetimeIt's reunions galore in A Christmas Dance Reunion, in which a lawyer (High School Musical's Monique Coleman) helps the Winterleigh Resort celebrate its final Christmas season by throwing a party loaded with Christmas traditions, including the grand Christmas Dance. But when she's there, she meets up once again with the owner's nephew (High School Musical's Corbin Bleu), and you'll never guess what happens next unless your guess was that they get back together. [Trailer]
Blending Christmas
Blending Christmas
LifetimePremiered December 12 LifetimeHaylie "Not Hilary" Duff and Aaron O'Connell play a couple on the verge of engagement at their favorite holiday getaway, but can their families, who join them on this Christmas vacation, get along? They had better, or there might not be a sequel.
Under the Christmas Tree
Under the Christmas Tree
LifetimePremieres Sunday, December 19 at 8/7c on LifetimeThe fact that this is a same-sex Christmas romance on Lifetime is fascinating and wonderful, but it's also, somehow, only the second most interesting thing about this film. The biggest draw here is that one character is described by the network as "a Christmas tree whisperer," which, whatever that is, is amazing. Don't whisperers tame things or calm them with a preternatural sense of kinship or comfort? If she's a Christmas tree whisperer, then that would make me one, too, because no Christmas trees have ever run away from me. Anyway, in the movie, the Christmas tree whisperer mixes it up with a marketing whiz when the perfect tree is in her backyard. Ricki Lake plays the town's pâtissière, and Lifetime says she uses some Christmas fairy dust to get the sparks going between the two main characters. This sounds like it may be the greatest Christmas movie ever made. [Trailer]
NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIES ON NETFLIX The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the StarVanessa Hudgens, Vanessa Hudgens, and... Vanessa Hudgens, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star
Mark Mainz/NETFLIXNow on Netflix; premiered Nov. 16If your favorite actress is Vanessa Hudgens, then I have some pretty good news for you. The third movie in the Princess Switch franchise is here, with Hudgens once again playing three different characters, all of whom are royalty. This time — hoo boy, get ready for this — the trio must stop a jewel thief from getting away with the Vatican's most prized treasure, the Star of Peace. And yes, there will be some princess switching. [Trailer]
Love Hard
Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang, Love Hard
Bettina Strauss/NetflixNow on Netflix; premiered Nov. 5Sick of the same old "hot girl meets hot guy at Christmas" rom-com and looking for something different? Jimmy O. Yang plays a not-traditionally-hot guy who catfishes an unlucky-in-love writer (Nina Dobrev), who decides to surprise him in person for the holidays. When she finds out who he really is, he makes a deal to get her the guy he was pretending to be (Darren Barnet). Christmas magic ensues (after several comical rom-com adventures, of course). [Trailer]
A Boy Called Christmas
Henry Lawfull, A Boy Called Christmas
NetflixNow on Netflix; premiered Nov. 26Based on Matt Haig's 2016 book, A Boy Called Christmas is a sorta Santa Claus origin story about 11-year-old Nikolas who journeys to the North Pole to find his missing father and ends up saving an Elven village from losing its spirit. There's an adorable CGI mouse in it, something that is sorely lacking from the Hallmark movies above. [Trailer]
Single All the Way
Philemon Chambers and Michael Urie, Single All the Way
Philippe Bosse/NetflixNow on Netflix; premiered Dec. 2Single All the Way is this year's play on the perpetually single adult returning home for the holidays only to be grilled by his family about why they're single all the time. This time Michael Urie plays the single person, and he brings along his best friend (Philemon Chambers) to pretend to be his boyfriend. But their plans get ruined when the family plays matchmaker, only to later realize that he should be with his best friend instead. Let this be a lesson to you all: Marry your best friend immediately! [Trailer]
MORE NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIES 'Twas the Fight Before ChristmasJeremy Morris, 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas
Apple TV+Now on Apple TV+; premiered Nov. 26You know those people who start blasting Christmas music on Nov. 1? Jeremy Morris is one of those people, to the nth degree. The Christmas fanatic is the subject of this documentary, which follows Morris as he tries to festively light up his house like he wants it seen from the North Pole but runs into problems with one of the world's most sinister groups: the neighborhood homeowners association. [Trailer]
8-Bit ChristmasJune Diane Raphael, Neil Patrick Harris, and Sophia Reid-Gantzert, 8-Bit Christmas
HBO MaxNow on HBO Max; premiered Nov. 24People these days don't understand the 1983 classic A Christmas Story because they don't understand wanting a BB gun so badly. But make it a Nintendo, and they'll see what the fuss was about. That's essentially the premise of this film, in which a man (Neil Patrick Harris) recalls everything he went through to try to get a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas when he was a kid in the 1980s. In 20 years we'll get a movie about a boy who really wanted Robux for Christmas. [Trailer]
The Waltons' Homecoming
Callaway Corrick, Tatum Sue Matthews, Marcelle LeBlanc, and Logan Shroyer, The Waltons' Homecoming
Tom Griscom/The CWPremiered Sunday, Nov. 28 at 8/7c on The CWOK, who let grandpa get control of The CW's schedule? The CW, known for its young superheroes and troublemaking teenagers, is going back, back, back in TV history with a new The Waltons Christmas special 50 years after the first The Waltons holiday special, A Homecoming: A Christmas Story, aired on CBS and launched the long-running family drama. In this update, the Depression-era family gathers for a Depression-era Christmas, but John Boy (Logan Shroyer) must set out into the wilderness to search for his dad (Ben Lawson) when doesn't show for Christmas dinner. Some things never change.
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
Mary Steenburgen, Jane Levy, and Skylar Astin, Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
RokuPremiered Wednesday, Dec. 1 on The Roku ChannelZoey's Extraordinary Christmas could make for an extra extraordinary Christmas if enough people watch the Roku original film. As Roku attempts to get into original programming, it's considering saving Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist since NBC canceled the musical dramedy after two seasons, and a lot of that decision will come down to how the Christmas film does (Seasons 1 and 2 are now on Roku). But enough of the show's life-or-death situation, what's the film about? Zoey (Jane Levy) tries to recreate the holiday magic she's familiar with during her first Christmas without her father. You want to see the cast belt out carols? You will get to see the cast belt out some carols. [Trailer]
Silent Night
Kiera Knightley, Silent Night
AMC+Premiered Friday, Dec. 3 on AMC+Keira Knightley stars in this British dark comedy about a family gathering for Christmas in the English countryside. You're saying, "That doesn't sound dark at all!" but I left out one little detail: It's the end of the world, as a deadly cloud of poisonous gas is coming to wipe out all of humanity the next morning. Better get those Christmas returns in early! [Trailer]
Home Sweet Home Alone
Archie Yates, Home Sweet Home Alone
Philippe Bosse/Disney+Now on Disney+; premiered Nov. 12It has "sweet" in the title, so it's not exactly a remake of the 1990 Macaulay Culkin classic, but it does feature a young boy (Jojo Rabbit's Archie Yates) accidentally left behind when his family goes on vacation over Christmas and leaves him to fend off a pair of criminals trying to break into the house. Yep, the "sweet" makes all the difference. [Trailer]
Christmas Con Brings Together Holiday Movie Lovers And Actors In The Spirit Of The Season
We all need a little Christmas.
And a little Christmas movie.
Christmas Con 2021, held earlier this month at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, celebrated cable movies which have become one of America's newest holiday season traditions.
Shown on Hallmark, GAC Family, Lifetime and other channels, the Christmas movies start airing in October and run through the holidays with repeats throughout the year. While some more dramatic than others, all are heartfelt, sentimental and fall into a "happy ending" formula.
"Deck the Hallmark" podcaster Daniel Thompson likens the movies to comfort food.
"Everybody loves a good cheeseburger or plate of pasta, and Hallmark or Lifetime movies are some people's plate of pasta," Thompson said. "Christmas movies allows the opportunity to remember, to forget, or to dream. Those are the three things – you either remember the good times, you want to forget what happened during the day or you want to dream about a world where you get together with your family and get to do the same thing.
“It gives us that hope that at the end of a long day when times are really tough that we need. And regardless of how cheesy they are, you can turn them on in the background and you feel as though some of your hope has been restored."
Thirty-one actors joined 12,000 attendees at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison for Christmas Con 2021, a three-day event celebrating Christmas movies and the holiday season.
Erin Cahill, who starred in and produced "Every Time a Bell Rings" this season, enjoys "everything" about the Christmas movies.
"I love telling stories that are centered around love and joy and community and connection, that's what the holidays are all about, so I love doing movies that reflect that," Cahill said. "And what I have heard what people get out of these movies is just that – they get hope and they get joy and possibility and they are getting out what I think we all hope to put in personally which is the spirit of the holidays, the most magical time of the year. I think it all boils down to love and connection."
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Nikki DeLoach, who has starred in 11 Hallmark movies and was one of the performers at Christmas Con, said the recurring theme of the movies is "hope."
"Hallmark always said they are the network of love and, yes, there is a lot of love. But they are really the network of hope,” DeLoach said. "That at the end of the day, everything is going to be OK. They are going to get a happy ending. I think that's what the movies offer people and that's why the people keep coming back. With everything that's going on, we have never needed hope more than we need now."
Thirty-one actors, including Nikki DeLoach, and 12,000 attendees came to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison for Christmas Con 2021, a three-day event celebrating Christmas movies and the holiday season.
Christmas Con keeps that hope alive.
"I think this is something that we all needed," said DeLoach, who lost her father to Pick's disease in July. "The last two years have been really hard, as everybody knows. And there has been so much loss, even if you have not lost a beloved, just not being able to be in community with people the way that we were accustomed to, that has been hard for everyone."
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Christmas Con 2021, which filled the Expo Center, offered meet-and-greets, selfie stations, professional photo opportunities, autographs aplenty and festive competitions – an Ugly Sweater Showdown, Game Night and Gingerbread Wars. There were Q&A panel sessions with celebrities, themed contests and eight sold-out wreath-making classes.
"I love it," said Drew Seeley, who has starred in four Christmas movies on both Hallmark and Lifetime, including this year's "Christmas Movie Magic.” "Everybody is so festive and it's really getting me in the holiday spirit."
"It's just so much fun to be here," said Jonathan Bennett, who has performed in a half-dozen holiday movies. "Christmas Con is where everyone can hug and share the Christmas joy with each other. It means so much for us to see all the people that we make these movies for. And we get to hear their stories of why they love the movies so much."
Jonathan Bennett and Danica McKellar were two of the actors who joined 12,000 attendees at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison for Christmas Con 2021, a three-day event celebrating Christmas movies and the holiday season.
While the movies follow the same formula, the storylines have become more inclusive with respect to romantic partners and holiday celebrations. Some have a Hanukkah theme, and more have LGBTQ+ storylines. Characters are also more diverse with Latino and Hispanic, African American and Asian actors in starring roles.
"Why I love the movies that I make with the LGBTQ+ storylines is that the people that are watching them feel seen," Bennett said. "For younger versions of myself to see what love looks like during the holidays."
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Christmas Con was created by That's4Entertainment – Liliana Kligman, Trinh Ho, Christina Figliolia and Alexandra Isaza – best friends since 2007. The quartet would gather at Figliolia's Central Jersey home and binge-watch Hallmark Channel Christmas movies, when not trimming the tree and "eating way too much food."
In 2018, Kligman, a big fan of entertainment conventions, realized fans of holiday movies had nowhere to celebrate their fandom together.
By the following Thanksgiving, Christmas Con 2019 was a reality. And it's gotten bigger and more extravagant ever since, with more than 12,000 attendees this year.
Tamera Mowry-Housley, seen in "The Santa Stakeout" this year, said that one of the best things about Christmas Con was hearing people sharing their personal stories, how the movies got them through difficult times.
"You hear stories from people about how their father passed away last year and we used to watch the movies – people are sharing how the holiday movies really touched them and helped them through difficult times," said Danica McKellar, "The Wonder Years" star who has appeared in several of the movies.
"It reminds me why we do this,” McKellar added, “to lift people's spirits. And I do watch my friends' movies. I am usually busy this time of year, but I DVR them and as I wrap Christmas presents, I put them on and watch."
Thirty-one actors and 12,000 attendees, including the Fasano Girls from Rhode Island and Connecticut, came to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison for Christmas Con 2021, a three-day event celebrating Christmas movies and the holiday season.
Maria Deneault was one of 11 family members — The Fasano Girls — who came from Rhode Island and Connecticut to spend the weekend at Christmas Con.
"We all love Christmas and love being together," Deneault said. "We had the best time, We continued the fun at our hotel with personalized stockings that we filled with gifts with each other, making gingerbread houses, a hot cocoa bar, our own tree ceremony, decorations, lights and making ornaments to commemorate our special family weekend at Christmas Con. And of course, we watched more Christmas movies."
Christmas Con 2022 is already scheduled for Dec. 9-11 next year at the Expo Center. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.M. Jan. 8.
Email: cmakin@gannettnj.Com
Cheryl Makin is an award-winning features and education reporter for MyCentralJersey.Com, part of the USA Today Network. Contact: Cmakin@gannettnj.Com or @CherylMakin.
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From Home Alone To While You Were Sleeping: Why Chicago Is Always The Setting For Christmas Movies
(Sarah Crowley)
The scenes are iconic for holiday film lovers of a certain generation: A lonely Sandra Bullock decorating her Christmas tree in a small apartment near the tracks of the L. The McCallister family sprinting through a garland-decorated O’Hare airport to the tune of Run, Run Rudolph. The exasperated shrieks at the Griswolds’ suburban Chicago home in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation coupled with Cousin Eddie’s classic one-liners.
From While You Were Sleeping to Home Alone and more recent favourite comedies like Office Christmas Party, an inordinate number of Christmas movies seem to be set in Chicago.
So why is that?
The answer is multifold.
It’s charming. It’s cheap. And it’s chillingly, unfailingly cold – often covered in snow, in fact, which turns out to be a huge asset when you’re trying to capture crystalline Christmastime magic.
Chicago ‘really does up Christmas bigtime in a very cinematically interesting ways,’ screenwriter and Columbia College professor tells The Independent (Getty Images)
“Let’s face it: Snow is pretty much guaranteed around here,” Ron Falzone, a screenwriter and associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, tells The Independent. “If you’re going to shoot, and you want to shoot snow, it’s very expensive to create snow.
“But more than that ... Chicago really does up Christmas bigtime in very cinematically interesting ways. You can go to a city like Cleveland or Rochester; you’ll see a lot of Christmas lights. It’ll be pretty. Chicago, with the windows of Macy’s, with the Mag Mile completely dolled up, it’s spectacular looking – and let’s say you’re a filmmaker ... It’s already art-directed here. You’re not going to have to pick up that cost.”
Kwame Amoaku, director of the Chicago Film Office, sums it up nicely.
“Snow,” he tells The Independent in an email. “We have it; California and Atlanta do not.”
Those two locations – along with cities like New York, Toronto and Vancouver – tend to attract much film and television production in the US.
Chicago’s ready-made setting of Christmas lights proves ideal for filmmakers during the holiday season (Sheila Flynn)
But in Chicago, Mr Amoaku points out, productions can avail of the Illinois Tax Credit offering a 3 per cent rebate. He also references “cheap permits” and “great crew on both sides of the camera, lots of local actors and crew members”.
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But there’s something more to why Chicago truly seems to resonate with Christmas film fans. And John Hughes – behind favourites such as Home Alone and Planes, Trains and Automobiles – has a lot to do with it.
For children of the 70s, 80s and even 90s, he was essentially the architect of the coming-of-age cinematic canon. And he based most of those movies in Chicagoland, where he spent his own formative years.
“He lived here for the longest time, and he chose to shoot here, because he felt this is where he knew people the best – even in his non-Christmas related movies, like the Breakfast Club ... I think it’s more terrific for people from Chicago than elsewhere,” Prof Falzone tells The Independent. “It clearly nails the Chicago suburbs ... [and] those types.”
The character and personalities of Chicagoan protagonists also have massive appeal, he adds.
Sandra Bullock plays a Chicago transit worker in the 1995 romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (20th Century Fox)
“Chicago is always portrayed as salt-of-the-earth, down-to-earth and easy-going in a way that other big cities are not,” he says, adding that film characters tend to be portrayed as “stable at the centre in a world that’s going crazy around them”.
But Chicago as a city tends to frequently take on the role of a main character, too, he says.
“This is a city of architecture – and you start with that, and there is a very, very definable look to Chicago,” he tells The Independent. “And you can’t tell a story that is about a location that looks like every other location, because the place can’t become a character – and Chicago is very, very much a character in all these movies we’re talking about.”
The popularity of Chicago Christmas film locations also can’t be over-estimated. A tourism official tells The Independent that no specific figures are kept to monitor how much Christmas movies have influenced visitor numbers or attraction popularity – but a visit to the Home Alone house, on any day of the year, is proof that holiday classics have bolstered the local economy.
On a Sunday afternoon in November, cars are slowing as they drive down the street in the northern suburb of Winnetka that hosts the film abode of Kevin McCallister, famously played by Macauley Culkin in the 1990 blockbuster. One older woman, holding the hand of her kindergarten-age charge, points to the house and asks in Spanish if he remembers a specific scene.
Jason and Chloe Barry, standing outside the Home Alone house in Winnetka, recreate a famous scene from the film; they’ve made a visit to the location an annual holiday tradition (Sheila Flynn)
Jason and Chloe Barry, who live about a half-hour away in Libertyville, pose for a photo outside the mansion as other fans pass; they’ve made a visit to the site an annual holiday tradition.
“For the past couple of years, we have made a mushroom bolognese, and we spend all day making it – and then we come here at night to look at all the houses, take pictures, and then we drive back ... And have our nice dinner and watch the movie,” Mrs Barry tells The Independent.
“We brought a friend here in April because she’s from Arkansas – and we surprised her.”
Her husband, grinning, describes the tradition as “reliving your childhood”.
“It’s a magical movie,” he says. “You can come see it in real life ... It’s timeless.”
He adds: “I’ve seen it way busier – like they’ve blocked off the street where there’s one-way traffic when you get closer to Christmas.”
All of those people are filling the city coffers. Many take the Metra rail line; the house is about a five-minute walk from the closest stop. Then they visit the small strip of boutique Winnetka shops and restaurants.
The area around Michigan Avenue and the river, steps from this decorated tree outside of Chicago’s Wrigley Building, is part of a landscape that tourism boss Jim Meyer says is ‘sort of like a walking human snow globe’ during the holidays (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
And everyone, of course, at some point heads downtown, which doesn’t feature as heavily in Home Alone as it does in other Christmas movies but has a very distinct and festive (if often freezing) vibe.
“In a way, it’s sort of like a human walking snow globe,” Jim Meyer, interim president and CEO of Choose Chicago, tells The Independent. “You’ve got all the bright Christmas colours, the buildings are lit up in holiday colours, different neighbourhoods are all lit up, it just adds a glow to the city.
“People are friendly anyways, but around the holidays, the friendliness of everybody just is even more open and outstanding.”
Referring back to Home Alone, he notes a holiday package being offered by Hilton Chicago featuring experiences and locations that appear in the franchise – “just showing how a privately-held entity is acknowledging the impact that the movies filmed in Chicago can have in people wanting to come to visit the city,” he says.
Home Alone super fans were also offered the opportunity to stay in the Winnetka house through AirBnB this month for one night only as part of a promotion for the much-maligned reboot starring Rob Delaney and Ellie Kemper.
Macauley Culkin, as Kevin McCallister, decorates a Christmas tree as burglar Joe Pesci looks into a window outside the house in Winnetka, Illinois, a northern Chicago suburb (DON SMETZER/20TH CENTURY FOX/The Kobal Collection/WireImage.Com)
That particular production is not set in Chicago, but the impact of its predecessor and other Windy City-set films simply bolsters the pride that Chicagoans have in their home, Mr Meyer says.
The way the movies “show the city, they show it as such a great city,” he tells The Independent. “They always show it as being fun ... I think it adds to [people’s] desire to visit Chicago.”
He adds: “I hate to use the words ‘warm’ and ‘fuzzy,’ but when you think about Christmas, you think about warmth, fuzzy blankets ... I tend to associate the holidays with snow and brisk weather. That sums up the holiday experience – just being able to walk outside and see the lights, step inside someplace warm, have a hot chocolate.
“From Macy’s and the tradition of their storefront windows on State Street to some of the pop-ups you see ... Christmas in Chicago, it’s for everybo...
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