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Adam Sandler's production company, Happy Madison Productions, released a holiday-themed animated film in the early 2000s, and after it bombed, it would be two decades before they worked on another animated project. Happy Madison Productions was founded by Sandler in December 1999, taking its name from two of the actor's most popular movies he co-wrote with Tim Herlihy — Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. Since then, the company has produced over 50 films, mostly comedy live-action projects. However, Happy Madison Productions has also released two animated movies, and they couldn't be more different.

As of the writing of this article, Happy Madison Productions officially has two films in the works — Happy Gilmore 2 and Kinda Pregnant.

Out of Happy Madison Productions' 50-plus movies, some of its most notable stories include Mr. Deeds, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, Click, Grown-Ups, Murder Mystery, and more. Basically, the company's standout films are also Sandler's best movies.

This year, Hanukkah begins on December 25, and SiriusXM has the perfect channel of Hanukkah music to soundtrack your eight nights of celebrations and beyond.

Available to stream on the SiriusXM app from December 24 through January 3, Radio Hanukkah plays an extensive collection of Hanukkah music — including contemporary, traditional, and children’s selections themed around the festival— as well as prayers and daily reflections.

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Radio Hanukkah is the perfect accompaniment to the Festival of Lights. You’ll find modern Jewish singers like Neshama Carlebach and Stacy Beyer alongside more traditional fare, such as the group Angel City Chorale, who provide beautiful choral arrangements of classic Hanukkah songs.

If you’re looking for even more Hanukkah-themed hits while enjoying your freshly made latkes, you can hear singer and rapper Matisyahu’s live performance at the SiriusXM studios below.

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Hallmark’s Hanukkah On The Rocks stars Stacey Farber, Daren Kagasoff, and Marc Summers in a new Countdown To Christmas movie.

“After getting laid off, Tory gets roped into bartending at a local bar during Hanukkah where she connects with the patrons – especially Jay and his grandfather Sam.”

Here are all the details of this new holiday movie.

PHoto: Daren Kagasoff, Stacey Farber Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Steven Ackerman What Is Hallmark’s Hanukkah On the Rocks About?

Hallmark’s Hanukkah On The Rocks is part of the 2024 Countdown To Christmas programming. What is this new holiday movie about?

According to TV Insider, Tory is a corporate lawyer who is dedicated to her work. However, just before Hanukkah, Tory “finds herself unemployed and questioning the career she’s dedicated years to.”

Therefore, Tory needs a pivot. She has focused on what she thought other people wanted that she had forgotten what she wants.

The official trailer for the 12th and final season of Letterkenny touts a “last brawl” for Wayne — aka “the toughest guy” in town — and a “last call” for the gang at large.

TVLine’s exclusive first look at the final Letterkenny trailer also offers peeks at Katy pondering a change, a blackout that promises to get “stank,” the Skids struggling to define their relationship with the Hicks (after all these years!), and everyone’s overall feeling of being, hm, “stuck.”

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When it comes to the Hanukkah Movie Industrial Complex, the Hallmarks and Lifetimes of the world are still playing catch-up. It wasn't until 2019 that the networks aired their first Hanukkah TV movies, and though they remain outnumbered among the dozens (or maybe hundreds?) of Christmas films released every year, they've steadily improved in quality over time. The celebration of the Festival of Lights has even carried over onto streaming: In 2022, Hulu dropped its first Hanukkah-specific movie, Menorah in the Middle, which is not a Malcolm in the Middle parody, but a romantic comedy featuring a few recognizable names.

This Friday, December 8, 2023, at 8:13 Pm on Nick Jr., “The Adventures of Paddington” unveils Season 3 with a heartwarming double-feature: “Paddington’s Special Visitor; Paddington Celebrates Hanukkah.” In the first tale, Paddington welcomes a special visitor with the assistance of Jonathan and Judy, creating a delightful adventure that highlights the bonds of friendship and the joy of shared experiences.

The second story, “Paddington Celebrates Hanukkah,” adds a festive touch to the episode as Mr. Gruber’s Hanukkiah faces an unexpected challenge. As it’s the last night of Hanukkah, viewers can expect Paddington to embark on a thoughtful and charming journey to help mend the broken Hanukkiah, infusing the episode with the spirit of perseverance and community.

Tune in for an evening of heartwarming tales, friendship, and festive celebrations with “The Adventures of Paddington” on Nick Jr. With its lovable characters and endearing narratives, the show continues to capture the imaginations...

It’s that time of year again, when we sit around a gigantic table of mediocre American food and pretend to be grateful for relatives we rarely speak to because they’re, shall we say, out of touch with the times. It’s a holiday built upon lies, considering we didn’t really treat Indigenous peoples with the whole “This land is your land” thing. It’s also stressful for broken families and children of divorce, who have to shuffle between homes or choose one parent to spend time with over the other,...

DC Comics gave Hal Jordan's Green Lantern a Hanukkah special that celebrates Hal's Jewish heritage in a way rarely seen in superhero comics. In the Green Lantern: The Animated Series spinoff comic, Jordan supports a group of rebels fighting to reclaim their home while his power ring’s charge drops to dangerously low levels. The story, which is overtly inspired by the Maccabean Rebellion, is not only a rare Hanukkah-focused superhero adventure, it is also a much-needed example of tasteful Jewish representation in genre fiction.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series #8 by Ivan Cohen and Luciano Vecchio, is full of references to the Maccabean Rebellion. With his ring’s energy depleting (and being separated from a power battery for eight days) Hal Jordan helps the Hammer Tribe’s de facto leader, Mk'Abee, overthrow the oppressive Lizardriders and reclaim their homeland. Meanwhile, aboard the Interceptor, Kilowog explains the story behind...

Stars: Robert Lasardo, Dane Bingenheimer, Kate Watson, Michael Paré, Johnny Huang, King Jeff, Sarah French, William ‘Bill’ Connor, Thomas Haley | Written by Adrian Milnes | Directed by Michael Su

Bridge of the Doomed certainly can’t be accused of being a slow burn. Within the first few minutes, an army base comes under attack, and a group of civilians is overrun and eaten by zombies. And there’s no hesitation to put the bloody results on the screen. This is the zombie apocalypse 80s style, except it isn’t badly dubbed into English.

After the opening attack, General Vasquez sends a squad led by Lt Whitmore and Sgt. Hernandez to hold a bridge or destroy it in necessary, while they wait for reinforcements to arrive. Getting those reinforcements falls to the ominously named Colonel Charon.

Back at the bridge Privates Lin and Sanders save a woman named Susan from being raped...

The truest litmus test for how someone feels about the Christmas season is a simple question: is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” a sad song about holiday loneliness, or a sweet song about persevering to celebrate life’s everyday joys? The genius of the song is that it equally serves both the glass half full and the glass half empty perspectives, which find themselves battling it out every December for ultimate superiority.

“Dash & Lily,” based on Rachel Cohn and David Levithan’s YA novel “Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares,” hinges on this exact conflict. Unfolding over the platonic ideal of a New York City Christmas week, “Dash & Lily” tells the story of an aggressively sweet teen romance between cynical Dash (Austin Abrams) with optimistic Lily (Midori Francis) as they each try to convince the other why Christmas sucks/rules. It’s never in doubt which side...

With the arrival of a new week comes a new batch of Blu-ray & DVD releases to keep you busy as you continue to hunker down at home. If you missed out on seeing it on the big screen earlier this year, now is your chance to finally catch up on William Eubank's Underwater, which is one of the best aquatic horror films to come out over the last few years. Scream Factory is showing some love to Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter on Tuesday with a brand new HD release of this cult classic from Hammer Films. Kino is resurrecting The Golem on Blu, and if you’re a big Sarah Michelle Gellar fan, her mind-bending 2008 thriller Possession is getting the HD treatment as well.

Other releases for April 14th include Hanukkah, Abominable, V: The Final Battle, Lycanimator, Getaway, and Ouijageist.

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The In Memoriam section of the Academy Awards is an annual acknowledgement of industry figures who died in the previous year. This year’s rundown, however, has people talking for its high number of glaring omissions. Audiences picked up on several prominent names left off the reel, such as Luke Perry, Cameron Boyce and Jan-Michael Vincent, and one oversight that has genre fans particularly incensed was that of Sid Haig.

Haig, who sadly passed away in September, may not be a name that every film fan can immediately place, but he’s highly regarded among the genre community for a career that spanned sixty years and is approaching 150 separate credits. And his exclusion, whether by intent or oversight, is being taken as a further example of the horror genre being treated with disdain by those who make ‘proper’ and ‘true’ cinema.

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As new audiences continue to discover Friends through various streaming platforms, the now-classic comedy remains one of the most popular shows on TV. In recent years, however, much criticism has been written online about the sitcom’s handling of various social issues — from its lack of diversity to its outdated jokes about sexuality — and how it fails to meet our social standards in 2020.

Friends star David Schwimmer addresses these concerns in a new interview with The Guardian. “I don’t care,” he says. “That show was groundbreaking in its time for the way in which it handled so casually sex,...

When the winter holiday season comes around, it is impossible to not see an episode of a television show that has been themed to Christmas, Hanukkah, or some other December festivity. From children's shows like Blue's Clues to classic sitcoms like Seinfeld, Christmas episodes are a must for television.

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But what of the other holidays? Throughout the year, there are plenty of holidays to celebrate and plenty of television episodes to revisit throughout the seasons. Listed below are some of the best episodes from the history of holidays on television, from big name events like Halloween and Thanksgiving to smaller-scale holidays like Leap Day and April Fools Day.

This week is “Music Week” on The Price Is Right, with each episode acting as a lead up to the Grammys on the 27th. To celebrate all things music, the show has welcomed several special guests, including Haim and Fall Out Boy.

Haim joined the fun during yesterday’s episode, which involved the trio playing drums for the show’s intro and getting the honor of spinning the iconic wheel. The band’s impassioned, instrumental drum performance, with each member at their own drum set, will make you wish for...

Holidays are about bringing families together...and, well, forgiveness. Just ask Tori Spelling. The Beverly Hills, 90210 and BH90210 alum revealed early on Saturday, days after Christmas and just before the seventh night of Hanukkah, that she and Dean McDermott and their five kids—Liam, 12, Stella, 11, Hattie, 8, Finn, 7, and Beau, 2—recently spent time with her husband's ex-wife, Mary Jo Eustace, the former pair's 21-year-old son, Jack, and her 14-year-old daughter, Lola. Spelling and her family celebrate both holidays. "Something good came out of 2019..." Spelling wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of her and Eustace taking a...

September 2019 brought with it the sad passing of actor and genre cinema legend Sid Haig, who’s perhaps most well known for playing Captain Spaulding from 2003’s House of 1000 Corpses and 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects. And in the recent 3 From Hell, the psychotic clown got to make one final appearance, though it wasn’t terribly substantial. Instead, Haig had a drastically reduced role when compared to the previous two outings, with Richard Brake’s Foxy becoming the new third member of the deadly trio.

It was certainly disappointing for fans to see the actor used so sparingly, but during the press tour for the threequel, director Rob Zombie had explained that Haig’s health was quickly deteriorating – which led to the reduced role – and that 3 From Hell was the horror icon’s final film. But as pointed out by the folks over at ScreenRant, this simply isn’t true.

Carly Pope and Kristoffer Polaha star in tonight's Double Holiday on Hallmark Channel.

Written by Nina Weinman, who has almost two dozen successful television movies on her resume, Double Holiday follows Rebecca, a successful Jewish woman working on her company's Christmas party with Chris in the hope that it leads to a promotion.

Carly and Kris took precious time out of their busy schedules to talk about the movie and a whole lot of other issues including their love for some of their most cherished programming from the past.

Both actors impressed with their kindness and a desire to make the world a better place to live. On Carly's part, she's focusing on using her commitment to entertainment that helps move the bar toward more inclusion and societal progression.

Kris enjoys bringing smiles to the faces of his fans with his roles from his work with Hallmark to his role in the 2014 feature film,...

When writer Nina Weinman heard Hallmark wanted to include Hanukkah in their annual “Countdown to Christmas” original movie slate for the 2019 holiday season, she was thrilled. Weinman was raised Jewish but now celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas with her own family after marrying a man who is Christian. Weinman’s producing partner, Joel Rice, is also Jewish, and she notes they “enthusiastically threw our hats in the ring” to get the gig.

Their original movie, “Double Holiday,” which premieres Dec. 21, stars Carly Pope as a woman named Rebecca who joins her coworker rival Chris (Kristoffer Polaha) to plan a holiday party at their office. Rebecca is Jewish and is already steeped in celebrating Hanukkah with her family when the party planning begins, causing Chris to spend ample time at her house and learn about her traditions.

“We said everything that I wanted to say about how people celebrate Hanukkah,” Weinman tells Variety of the movie.

Put on your yarmulke because there's a new Hanukkah Song! On Thursday, James Corden gave the world a new Hanukkah anthem on The Late Late Show with the help of stars Zach Braff, Charlie Puth, Josh Peck and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Forming the supergroup Boyz II Menorah, they debuted the festive music video for their song "A Week and a Day." Paying homage to '90s boybands and the Jewish festival of lights, the group donned matching white outfits as they celebrated the eight days of Hanukkah. "Got a week and a day of love this Hanukkah, girl," Josh began. The Drake and Josh alum was followed by Christopher, who sang, "Got a week and a day to show you how much I...

With the finale of Watchmen now behind us, television viewers are now deep into the holiday break season where kids are off from school and new programs are off the air. Executives decided long ago that no one would have the capacity to tune in for their favorites when Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years came around. But what about sci-fi lovers? What do we have to look forward to in 2020?

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While the popularity of DVR and on-demand services may not make that true anymore (how are people really supposed to entertain their guests who come over to celebrate the season) that's still how scheduling works. In the interim, there is always the chance to take stock of the new content that will hit the airwaves in a new year. What should you be ready to record? What should you not waste your time on?...

HBO Max will aim to bring cheesy, tinsel-draped TV-movies to life with 12 Dates of Christmas, a holiday-inspired dating series set in “a stunning winter wonderland.”

Officially ordered to series and set to debut in 2020, 12 Dates of Christmas will follow a cast of singles as they “step into a real-life romantic comedy full of cozy sweaters, fireside cuddles and mistletoe kisses, all arranged to help these souls find love — just in time for the premiere date the holidays.”

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Billy Eichner and Mariah Carey took to the streets of New York to spread holiday cheer on the latest episode of Billy on the Street.

After Eichner introduced himself as the "Hanukkah Goblin" and Carey as the "Queen of Christmas," the two approached a man and asked if he thought Carey should record a Hanukkah song. When the man agreed, Eichner asked him to finish the lyrics to "I Have a Little Dreidel."  The pedestrian incorrectly finished the lyrics, though Carey awarded him with a menorah anyway. Eichner took back the prize and marched away....

For several years now, Brittany Bristow has been building her resume with a slew of made-for-tv movies for Hallmark.

She's always been in a supporting role, adding story for the leads by way of a friend or sister but always as some sort of confidant helping the main characters to become better people.

Brittany's perseverance has paid off, as she's been chosen to lead Hallmark's Holiday Date, one of the network's first movies to feature Hannukah as a significant part of it's holiday offerings. So, yes, Hanukah is now a part of #CountdowntoChristmas.

Matt Cohen also stars as an aspiring actor named Joel who agrees to take Brittany's character of Brooke home for Christmas after she's gotten dumped by a man she has previously shared with her family to be a "Mr. Christmas" type and possibly "the one." 

It's only after arriving in her hometown and getting caught up in...

There are three constants you can count on when the holiday season rolls around: lots of food, lots of gifts and lots of Hallmark Christmas movies.

This year, the Hallmark Channel kicked off its 10th Annual Countdown to Christmas on the very early date of Oct. 25, with 40 new festive movies airing across on the network and its sister channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The 2019 lineup features some Hallmark newcomers like Nashville alumna Chaley Rose and Carly Pope (Arrow, Popular); Pope also stars opposite Kristoffer Polaha in Double Holiday (premiering Dec. 21), one of the network’s two new Hanukkah-themed flicks.

In one of his very last acting roles, House of 1000 Corpses star and genre legend Sid Haig will appear in the new holiday horror movie Hanukkah. Written and directed by Eben McGarr (House of the Wolf Man), the movie will premiere in select theaters on Dec. 13 with home video releases on VHS and Blu-ray to follow in limited quantities. The official trailer is also available to watch online, and you can take a look at it below.

The Hanukkah trailer arrives just a few months after Sid Haig's death. If the footage and synopsis are any indication, Hanukkah looks to be a rather fun holiday-themed slasher movie, the likes of which we don't see too often these days. The story follows a group of Jewish young adults preparing for the Festival of Lights, only to find out they are instead in store for a Festival of Frights. When they...

A new trailer for festive horror movie Hanukkah gives us a last look at horror legend Sig Haig, who sadly passed away in September at the age of 80.

Many years ago, Judah Lazarus (Haig), a serial murderer known as the Hanukiller, was shot dead right before he was about to sacrifice his young son Obadiah. In the intervening time, Obadiah disappeared without a trace, only to now resurface and take on his father’s bloody work as a force of warped morality, killing Jews not affording proper reverence to their faith. A number of twenty-somethings become targets of his wrath and, aided by a creepy rabbi who appears suspiciously knowledgeable about events, must embrace the teachings of the Torah if they want to survive the holidays.

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Thanksgiving is in the rearview and it’s the end of the road for the 2010s. That means it’s time to celebrate winter festivities with this playlist of the best Christmas and Hanukkah songs from the last decade. Grab your glockenspiel and a cup of non-dairy eggnog and cozy up to the fire with these new holiday classics. No covers allowed.

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Before renouncing secular music, Kanye dabbled in a consumerist celebration of Christ’s birth.

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For their latest radio pop/soft-rock cover, Haim have decided to perform a Robyn song — but it’s not “Dancing on My Own” or anything from the Body Talk era, when Robyn became the international patron saint of dancing out your feelings.

Instead, the sisterly trio from L.A. performed “Show Me Love” — one of Robyn’s early radio hits from the Nineties — on BBC Radio 1’s Piano Sessions with Este Haim on lead vocals. The band beautifully adapted the pop song into a searing piano ballad, and it...

As Christmas nears, Netflix will ring in this holiday season with new Kris Kringle-themed films including “A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish,” “Home for Christmas” and “A Family Reunion Christmas.”

Tiffany Haddish, meanwhile, will be celebrating Hanukkah with her newest stand-up special “Black Mitzvah,” in which she shares how she’s embracing her roots after discovering her father’s Eritrean-Jewish heritage.

Kevin Hart’s new special also hits Netflix this month. His docu-series “Don’t F**k This Up” will highlight his Oscar hosting controversy, as well as his daily life.

Acclaimed movies like Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, along with “Two Popes,” are also joining the streamer in December. On the TV front, Season 2 of “You” starring Penn Badgley arrives on Netflix just after Christmas.

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During the four seasons The O.C. was on the air for, the teen drama made a habit of spotlighting different holidays. The first season alone featured Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, and Passover with big parties, family gatherings, and plenty of drama.

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With fourteen episodes built around holidays, there was a lot of opportunity for the drama of heartbreak, comedic hijinks, and some signature Ryan Atwood slow motion sequences. Not every holiday episode could be a standout hour, so they’ve been ranked from the worst to the best.

So much for making the yuletide gay. Hallmark Channel is rolling out a total of 40 original holiday-themed movies across Hallmark and its sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries — not one of which features an Lgbtq character taking center stage.

And Lifetime, the network’s closest competitor in the made-for-tv holiday movie space, has a similarly poor track record: Out of 30 new original Christmas movies, none feature primary storylines about Lgbtq couples.

Lgbtq characters have appeared in Hallmark and Lifetime movies past and present — this year, Lifetime has four movies which feature queer relationships in supporting positions — but none have carried a holiday movie of their own as the co-owners of a candy cane company or lovers in Dollywood or whatever the premise may be.

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It was mildly confusing when Haim released an original song titled “Hallelujah” on Monday, but now they’ve officially dropped a Leonard Cohen cover — a rendition “If It Be Your Will,” included on the new Hanukkah+ album.

The final breath to 1984’s Various Positions, “If It Be Your Will” is an ethereal track that features Jennifer Warnes on backing vocals. “If it be your will/That I speak no more/And my voice be still/As it was before,” Cohen sings over faint acoustic guitar. “I will speak no more...

Yo La Tengo have been performing their famous eight-night Hanukkah run for the better part of 18 years, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish. “We’re not all Jewish, for one thing,” frontman Ira Kaplan tells Rolling Stone. “Even those of us that are are not religious in any way. It was more that it seemed challenging and funny to play eight nights in a row with all the hoopla over Christmas. I thought that Hanukkah could use a bit of a spotlight.”

Even so, their annual run...

Haim have released a new song “Hallelujah,” and no, it’s not a Leonard Cohen cover. The sister trio dropped the song accompanied by a video directed by their frequent collaborator, Paul Thomas Anderson.

The stripped-down track was co-written by Tobias Jesso Jr. and produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, Rostam Batmanglij and Danielle Haim. The video opens with Danielle alone on a dark stage, playing acoustic guitar. “I met two angels but they were in disguise,” she sings, before she tosses a chair to Este, who takes over on lead vocals.

The festival of lights is getting a boost this year from Hanukkah+, a collection of Hanukkah classics and originals from artists like Haim, the Flaming Lips, Jack Black and Yo La Tengo.

The album, produced by Grammy-winning music supervisor Randall Poster, will be released November 22nd via Verve Forecast. A vinyl release will follow on December 13th.

Loudon Wainwright III, Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green, Holy Ghost’s Alex Frankel and Craig Wedren also contributed to the album. Haim take on Leonard Cohen’s “If It Be Your Will,” from Cohen’s 1984 album Various Positions,...

The newly premiered streaming channel ThrillFlix has launched a new show called Room 236 and it will be hosted by scream queens Felissa Rose and Sadie Katz! Continue reading for more details as well as Room 236's debut date. Also in today's Horror Highlights: details on the winner of the "Best Unproduced Screenplay" contest at Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, the short film Murder Ballad, and trailers and release details for The Shed and Devil's Acid. Let's get spookyyyyyy.

ThrillFlix's Room 236 Release Details: "ThrillFlix Launching New Horror Channel Room 236 Curated By Scream Queens Felissa Rose and Sadie Katz on October 18th, 2019.

ThrillFlix is the premier movie streaming channel that guarantees to keep you entertained. Watch more movies than you can handle, in all genres including horror, comedy, thriller, action, drama, adventure, mystery, classics and more.

On October 18th, ThrillFlix is launching Room 236, curated and hosted by Scream Queens Felissa Rose and Sadie Katz.

Halloween is still a couple weeks away, but Food Network is already decking its halls with holiday content. This year, the cable channel is serving up more seasonal programming than ever, growing its themed episodes by 40% compared to 2018’s slate, and it kicked things off at the end of last month with some spooktacular specials.

The reason behind the big push into making the season brighter with more Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year’s Eve offerings is how much the shows lit up last year’s Nielsen data for Food Network, which scored its highest-rated fourth quarter since 2015 (+9% vs. prior year), largely driven by the holiday-programming lineup.

“Looking at last year’s ratings and what we had done in 2017, we definitely, in both years — and never before as aggressively as this year — have taken a big step up in the volume of content,” Food Network president Courtney White told TheWrap.

Last month saw the sad passing of actor and genre cinema legend Sid Haig, whose most famous role just might be that of Captain Spaulding from 2003’s House of 1000 Corpses and 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects. With the recent 3 From Hell, the psychotic clown was able to make one final appearance, but to the disappointment of some viewers, the character effectively took on a supporting part, with Richard Brake’s Foxy serving as the new third member of the film’s titular trio.

As director Rob Zombie explained to Entertainment Weekly last month, Haig’s part was significantly reduced due to the actor’s declining health. And in a more recent interview with Kerrang!, the filmmaker and frequent Haig collaborator recalled how they anticipated the backlash but felt they made the right decision:

“It was kind of a drag, because I knew people would wonder about that. And especially, you...

This past weekend, we lost a cult horror icon.

Sid Haig, the man best known as Rob Zombie’s murderous clown across The Devil’s Rejects and House Of 1000 Corpses, passed away at the age of 80, sending the Internet into a state of mourning. Taking to Instagram, Haig’s wife Susan L. Oberg offered what was perhaps the perfect send-off, all the while asking for privacy and respect in their time of loss.

In her statement, Olberg admitted that Haig’s death came as a shock to the entire family. The cult performer had initially suffered an accident that put him in the ICU a fortnight ago, though appeared to be making a recovery in time for the arrival of Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell, in which he reprised his role as Captain Spaulding.

Alas, the long-in-development horror sequel will now be remembered as one of Sid Haig’s final films,...

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House of 1000 Corpses star Sid Haig was a Roger Corman regular, First Lawgiver on Star Trek, and played 8 villains on Mission: Impossible.

Sid Haig, a character actor who appeared in all genres but is best known as a horror icon, died at the age of 80. "On Saturday, September 21, 2019, my light, my heart, my true love, my King, the other half of my soul, Sidney, passed from this realm on to the next," Haig’s wife, Susan L. Oberg, announced on Instagram."

"He has returned to the Universe, a shining star in her heavens He was my angel, my husband, my best friend and always will be. He adored his family, his friends and his fans. This came as a shock to all of us. He was my angel, my husband, my best friend and always will be. He adored his family, his friends and his fans.”

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We have some sad news to pass along today, as it has been reported that Dick Miller has passed away. Survived by his wife Lainie, daughter Barbara, and granddaughter Autumn, Miller's cause of death has not yet been revealed. Anyone who's familiar with Miller certainly sees this as a tremendous loss, given all of the entertainment the actor has brought to audiences over the years. You may or may not know his name, but this is someone whose face you will definitely recognize. Miller was one of those actors who would typically show up in bit parts in various movies, yet always had the ability to elevate everything he appeared in. More often than not, Miller would steal the show with his roles, despite how limited his screen time may have been.

Miller's legendary career began in 1956, when iconic filmmaker Roger Corman hired him to appear in his movie It Conquered the World.

If you watch movies, then chances are you would instantly recognize Dick Miller's face, not just because he has more than 180 screen credits to his name (according to IMDb), but because he instills each of his characters with an unforgettable personality and indelible screen presence. Miller was truly a unique and wonderful performer, and it is with especially heavy hearts that we share the news of his passing at the age of 90.

Multiple sources, including The Hollywood Reporter, report the news of Miller's passing at the age of 90 in Toluca Lake, California. According to a family spokesperson, he passed away from natural causes and was surrounded by loved ones.

Miller's first film role dates back to 1955, and from that point on, there was no turning back for Miller, who was a constant presence in film and TV, playing memorable characters in just about every genre imaginable over seven decades.

Dick Miller, a prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in the 1984 classic horror film “Gremlins,” has died. He was 90.

With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was then that he starred as Walter Paisley – a character the actor would reprise throughout his career – in the cult classic “A Bucket of Blood,” before going on to land roles on projects such as “The ‘Burbs,” “Fame” and “The Terminator.”

Miller also boasts a long history of high-profile director partnerships, working with the likes of James Cameron, Ernest Dickerson, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles and, perhaps most notably, Joe Dante, who used Miller in almost every project he helmed.

In one of Dante’s earlier films, “Piranha,” Miller played Buck Gardner, a small-time real estate agent opening up a...

Natalie Portman experienced an only-in-Hollywood mix-up, she revealed on Thursday's episode of Late Night.

After discussing Hanukkah with host Seth Meyers, Portman said, "I had a weird Jewish holiday thing this year."

She explained that her cousin, Meryl, moved from New York to Los Angeles with her husband last year. "We've been inviting them to all our Jewish holidays and everything and the last three holidays she didn't reply," said Portman. "I was like, 'Did I do something to offend her? Did I hurt her feelings? Is she holding a grudge?'...

With the ubiquity of holiday movies that focus on Christmas, it is no surprise that movies about Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and other similar holidays get forgotten or not even made. However, as the season is about giving and not receiving, we thought it was high time for a list about at least one of the lesser covered holidays. As the person who is writing this is Jewish, it only seemed appropriate to find the "8 Movies You Need to Watch on Hanukkah." So, binge them if you like, watch a film a night, whatever you do just follow the list to get the most from the Hanukkah Holiday!

There are many reasons why there are not a bevy of Hanukkah-themed holiday movies. Based on my experience as a Jew in America, we just are a bit more low key in how we celebrate. If people ask we share the information, but...

Composer Harry Manfredini is a bona fide treasure of the horror genre, having scored just about every installment in the Friday the 13th franchise among literally dozens of other awesome, classic genre flicks. Now, we’re getting word that Manfredini is scoring the upcoming holiday-themed horror movie Hanukkah, written and directed by Eben McGarr. For the […]

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