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Three new movies announced for Great American Christmas 2024 on Great American Family

The line-up of new, original movies for Great American Family’s Great American Christmas 2024 is growing.

Great American Family has announced three more World Premiere Original Movies for its Great America Christmas 2024. Among the talent acting in the movies are some of the network’s top stars and some new talent. The lineup includes Mario Lopez, Courtney Lopez, Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega, Julia Reilly, and more. Read on to find out more about the three new holiday movies to look forward to in the holidays of 2024.

A Royal Christmas Ballet

Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard in A Royal Christmas Ballet [Image @britt_underwood and @jonstoddardofficial on Instagram]Starring: Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard Ash Tsai and Eric Guilmette star in A Shelter and Season’s Greetings (wt), part of Great American Christmas 2024.

Starring: Eric Guilmette (The Black Box) and Ash Tsai (Journey to Christmas...

Halloween has come and gone and it’s time to start celebrating the holidays. Ok, well, Lifetime (and some of its competitors) began decking their lineups with new Christmas movies before Oct. 30 — but now it’s really time to start making the season bright.

See below for Lifetime’s full 2020 “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” slate of holiday movies, which includes 30 different original films this year. Two notable projects on the list are “A Christmas Setup,” which marks the cable channel’s first-ever holiday movie to feature a gay couple as the leads, and “A Sugar & Spice Holiday,” Lifetime’s first holiday film led by an Asian cast.

Christmas on Ice

Starring Abigail Klein, Ryan Cooper, Caroline Portu,

Will Lyman, Meara Mahoney Gross

10/23 at 8pm Et/Pt

Courtney Bennett (Abigail Klein), a former US figure skating hopeful, runs the city’s public skating rink but when the Mayor (Will Lyman) announces its closing,...

90210 alum Trevor Donovan and Code Black actress Jillian Murray will topline the indie film, Prescription for Love, being helmed by Brian Brough. The pic follows Claire (Murray), who fights for a chance at love with a charming new doctor (Donovan) and for a promotion to free herself from the misery her supervisor creates. Brough and Brittany Wiscombe are producing the pic via at Silver Creek productions. Donovan, repped by Artists Only Management, is set to star in two other indie films, Hot Water and World War II pic Wolf Hound. Murray, who also recurred on TNT’s Murder in the First, is repped by Link entertainment and Joseph Le Talent.

Westworld actor Leonardo Nam, Sheetal Sheth (Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World), Hal Ozsan (Jessica Jones), and Anil Kumar (False Profits) will star in Hummingbird, an indie drama written and directed by Tanuj Chopra based on a story by Sheth.

Creature Feature Collection

Contains: Snow Beast, Monsterwolf, Swamp Shark | Released by Signature Entertainment

Signature Entertainment re-release three of their Tesco-exclusive creature features in a special three pack which is now available at all good retailers. We’ve previously reviewed two of the three so I thought I’d repost those together here just in case you’re wondering whether this new collection is worth picking up (Hint: If you love cheesy monster movies and crazy killer-shark flicks it most definitely is!). So without further ado, here’s reviews of Snow Beast and Swamp Shark:

Snow Beast (2011)

Stars: John Schneider, Jason London, Danielle Chuchran, Paul D. Hunt, Kari Hawker | Written by Brittany Wiscombe | Directed by Brian Brough

Snow Beast, shot in 2011, and not to be confused with the 1977 TV movieSnowbeast which starred Bo Svenson and Yvette Mimieux, and is set in the same locale (a snowy hillside) and featuring almost exactly the same plot,...

Director: Brian Brough.

Writer: Brittany Wiscombe.

Snow Beast is a sasquatch-ploitation film that was released on DVD October 4th. This b-movie styled film also has a date with destiny January, 2012 when the film will have a television premiere on the SyFy Network. This film stars John Schneider and Jason London in a creature feature flick that involves a bear hugging Yeti and characters wandering about the woods oblivious to this white haired menace. Truly comedic, Snow Beast has to be seen to enjoy all the humour housed within.

Several researchers head up to Canada to complete their study on lynxes. Something strange is afoot however as all of the animals in the area have begun to disappear, including people. Those hiking in the woods or stopping for a piddle are soon consumed by a seven foot animal that looks straight out of Empire Strikes Back (a wampa). Did they borrow the same suit?...

Snow Beast (2011)

Stars: John Schneider, Jason London, Danielle Chuchran, Paul D. Hunt, Kari Hawker | Written by Brittany Wiscombe | Directed by Brian Brough

Snow Beast, shot in 2011, and not to be confused with the 1977 TV movie Snowbeast which starred Bo Svenson and Yvette Mimieux, and is set in the same locale (a snowy hillside) and featuring almost exactly the same plot, stars Smallville‘s John Schneider as wildlife researcher Jim who, along with his team head up to the mountains every year to study the Canadian Lynx. Only this year things are a little different – for one Jim has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy (Chuchran), with him and two, all the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team, along with a local forest ranger played by a sweaty-looking Jason London, try to find out why, something stalks them, a predator, a hunter, a Snowbeast! (and yes I am...

The latest poster for Brian Brough's Snow Beast tells horror fans: "survival is everything." But staying alive might be difficult in Archstone Entertainment's latest, as a seven foot tall Yeti claws at and possibly through John Schneider as Jim and Jason London as Barry. So, get your snowmobiles ready this October, 2011, with Snow Beast unleashing a wintery nightmare on DVD!

The synopsis for Snow Beast is here:

"Jim (John Schneider) and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy (Danielle Chuchran), with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them - a predator no prey can escape" (Archstone).

Release Date: October, 2011 (DVD).

Director: Brian Brough.

Writer: Brittany Wiscombe.

Producers: Greg Brough, Brittany Wiscombe, and Anthony Straga.

Cast: Jason London, John Schneider, and Danielle Chuchran.

The trailer for...

Nothing says guilty pleasure like a seven foot tall man in a furry suit. Archstone Distribution's Snow Beast offers just this, as the famed Yeti of lore comes to life. Hoping to paw off John Schneider's head in this first trailer, Snow Beast warns people not to travel into the frozen wilderness without your funny bone. Have an early look at Snow Beast below, in what could be the best trailer ever!

The synopsis for Snow Beast is here:

"Jim (John Schneider) and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy (Danielle Chuchran), with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape" (Archstone).

Completion Year: 2011.

Director: Brian Brough.

Writer: Brittany Wiscombe.

Producers: Greg Brough, Brittany Wiscombe, and Anthony Straga.

Cast: Jason London,...

Brian Brough is in post-production on what sound to be a Yeti project called Snow Beast . Low budget creature feature staples John Schneider and Jason London star in this tale of a massive, bloodthirsty snow creature that strikes terror in a remote Canadian town when it starts slaughtering of animals and townsfolk. When a group of scientists investigate with the help of a local policeman, they are trapped by a terrible blizzard and must face off against the cold blooded beast! Danielle Chuchran also stars. Brittany Wiscombe penned the script; she also wrote Brough's previous directing effort Scents and Sensibility . Snow Beast , I'm sure we'll see you on SyFy soon!

There was a 1977 TV movie called Snowbeast about a killer Yeti terrorizing a Colorado ski resort. You barely saw the monster at all. Now there's a new killer Yeti movie called Snow Beast, starring John Schneider and Jason London, and you'll see 100 times more monster in this trailer than in all of that Seventies flick.

People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim (John Schneider) and his research team study the Canadian lynx every year. This year he has to take his rebelling 16-year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.

Directed by Brian Brough (Christmas Angel) from a script by Brittany Wiscombe (Christmas Angel), my natural assumption would be that Snow Beast is destined for Syfy, but given that the...