Tag: A Christmas Carol
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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Director Gurinder Chadha to Make ‘A Christmas Carol’ Adaptation With Tory-Voting, ‘Refugee-Hating’ Indian Scrooge
Gurinder Chadha has revealed that she’s making a film based on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” but one with a distinctly contemporary twist.Speaking to U.K. Parliament on Tuesday about the current state of the country’s film industry, she said the upcoming film was would have an Indian lead character. “My Scrooge is an Indian Tory…
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“I get rejections from people who should know better,” Gurinder Chadha tells UK committee
UK director Gurinder Chadha has revealed how she has struggled to set up her own take on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, as part of the oral evidence she has given during the first session of the UK Parliament’s cross-party Culture, Media and Sport (Cms) Committee today, January 23.“Right now I’m putting together an…
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SNL: Please Don’t Destroy Sketch Reminds Us We Never Know Who’s Listening
Saturday Night Live brought us into the holiday season with Steve Martin and Martin Short as hosts with Brandi Carlile as the musical guest. It was a fun episode that had some great sketches to remind us just how great both Martin and Short are as comedians. From sketches about A Christmas Carol to bringing…
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Ryan Reynolds Reveals Plans for ‘Deadpool’ Christmas Movie That Got ‘Lost in the Shuffle’ of Disney-Fox Merger
Ryan Reynolds has shared plans for a “Deadpool” Christmas movie that got “lost in the shuffle” after the Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019.Reynolds’ comments came during an interview with The Big Issue, promoting his new film “Spirited,” a spin on “A Christmas Carol” from Apple. The comedy stars Reynolds and Will…
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Will Ferrell’s Legacy Made Spirited A Special Kind Of ‘Challenge’ For Ryan Reynolds
Hardly a week after the season of creeps, ghouls, and goblins, AppleTV+ is ready to thrust us into the warmth of Christmas with “Spirited,” a contemporary update on “A Christmas Carol.” Rather than going through the motions of Charles Dickens’ cautionary tale, director Sean Anders is instead transforming the time-honored story into a musical comedy…
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Ryan Reynolds Says He Was ‘Whittled Down to Next to Nothing’ by ‘Spirited’ Dance Routines
Ryan Reynolds experienced the exercise regimen of a lifetime: singing and dancing in a Christmas musical movie.The “Spirited” star revealed he became “terribly sore” during production for the modern twist on “A Christmas Carol” opposite Will Ferrell.“I felt like I was whittled down to next to nothing halfway through the movie,” Reynolds told People magazine…
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‘Spirited’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell Star In Musical Adaptation of Dickens
Who do you think of when you think of Scrooge? Ryan Reynolds? Me neither. But the casting directors over at Apple TV+ are clearly working on a different wavelength from all of us because this holiday season they’re promising just such an unlikely pairing with “Spirited,” their musical adaptation of Dickens’ classic story, “A Christmas…
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‘A Christmas Carol’, Featuring Andy Serkis, Daniel Kaluuya, and Carey Mulligan, Coming to U.S. Theaters
There have been dozens of movie adaptations of Charles Dickens’ classic story A Christmas Carol (with even more to come), but here’s one that puts a new spin on things. Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Carey Mulligan (Never Let Me Go), Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), and more are…
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Andrew Lincoln Trades Zombies For Ghosts as Star of Live-Stream Production of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Andrew Lincoln is trading zombies for ghosts. In Lincoln’s his first role since he left his 10-year gig on The Walking Dead, the actor is set to star as Ebenezer Scrooge in the stage production of A Christmas Carol at the famed Old Vic Theatre in London, which is set to be live-streamed to audiences…
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‘A Christmas Carol’ Featurette is Ready to Scare the Dickens Out of You
This ain’t your grandaddy’s Scrooge! FX’s new ultra-dark, ultra-creepy take on