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Summer season could be kicking off, however temperatures are already dropping at Netflix.
As rom-coms proceed to rule the vacation season, the streaming service has begun to rival staple networks like Hallmark and Lifetime in its seasonal content material. For 2024, followers can anticipate a star-studded forged throughout a handful of movies all assured to place them within the temper for cocoa, caroling and romance.
Earlier this yr, Netflix revealed its first three films; Sizzling Frosty, starring Hallmark darling Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan’s upcoming Our Little Secret and the Christmas musical Meet Me Subsequent Christmas with Pentatonix and Christina Milian. In Could 2024, it added The Merry Gentleman to its slate, which is able to function Britt Robertson as a former big-city dancer who tries to avoid wasting her mother and father’ small-town store.
“My character Ashley has been a profitable Broadway dancer for her whole grownup profession, she returns to her hometown and is confronted with determining what she desires for her future, whereas additionally reinventing her mother and father’ native enterprise,” Robertson informed Netflix’s Tudum about her function. “I like with the ability to encompass myself with family and friends, beautify a Christmas tree, prepare dinner recent baked items and have a good time our lives collectively,” she says.” Having the ability to convey my favourite folks collectively to observe a vacation film helps me to understand a very powerful issues in life.”
Nothing screams the vacations like snuggling up on the sofa, grabbing cocoa and placing on a festive film. Us Weekly has rounded up essentially the most “snuggle-worthy” Christmas movies to stream this season, together with The Vacation, White Christmas and Hallmark’s The Christmas Cottage. “Happening to the units for The Vacation, you simply felt such as you had been […]
The movie additionally stars Chad Michael Murray as Lucas, Ashley’s love curiosity, and one of many males in Ashley’s Christmas-themed revue. (This marks the fourth time Murray has portrayed a personality named Lucas since capturing to stardom as Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill.)
“Luke is form, assured and barely sarcastic,” Murray shared of his character. “He works as a contractor serving to out the household who owns a bar named the Rhythm Room. He’s thrust into an unfamiliar state of affairs and is pushed to the bounds of comfortability.”
As for why Murray took on the function, he informed the streaming big, “Vacation films convey so many people the peace and calm we like to get pleasure from over the vacations. These movies convey us collectively and provides us adventures to get pleasure from as a household.”
Hold scrolling for a whole information to Netflix’s vacation film lineup:
‘Sizzling Frosty’
Launch Date: TBD 2024
Starring: Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Craig Robinson, Joe Lo Truglio, Katy Mixon, Lauren Holly, Chrishell Stause
Synopsis: Two years after shedding her husband, Cathy (Chabert) magically brings a good-looking snowman to life! By his naivete, the snowman helps Cathy to snort, really feel and love once more, as the 2 fall for one another simply in time for the vacations…and earlier than he melts.
‘Our Little Secret’
Launch Date: TBD 2024
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Kristin Chenoweth, Ian Harding, Jon Rudnitsky, Tim Meadows,
Synopsis: Two resentful exes (Lohan and Harding) are pressured to spend Christmas below the identical roof after discovering that their present companions are siblings.
‘Meet Me Subsequent Christmas’
Launch Date: TBD 2024
Starring: Christina Milian, Kofi Siriboe, Kalen Allen and the forged of Pentatonix
Synopsis: Directed by Rusty Cundieff, Meet Me Subsequent Christmas follows the yuletide journey of Layla (Milian), a girl whose pursuit of a fairy-tale romance with the person of her desires leads her on a race in opposition to time to safe tickets to New York Metropolis’s hottest gig: the sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve Live performance.
‘Tis the season for vacation rom-coms, lots of which star fan-favorite former Tree Hill residents. In 2018, Hilarie Burton Morgan enlisted former One Tree Hill costars Danneel Ackles, Robert Buckey, Antwon Tanner, Tyler Hilton and Elizabeth Harnois to hitch her in 2018’s A Christmas Contract on Lifetime. One yr later, the group reunited for the […]
‘The Merry Gents’
Launch Date: TBD 2024
Starring: Chad Michael Murray, Britt Robertson, Marla Sokoloff, Beth Broderick, Michael Gross, Maxwell Caulfield, Hector David Jr, Colt Prattes, Marc Anthony Samuel
Synopsis: To avoid wasting her mother and father’ small-town performing venue, Ashley (Robertson), a former big-city dancer, decides to stage an all-male, Christmas-themed revue.
