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Summer time may 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 count on a star-studded forged throughout a handful of movies all assured to place them within the temper for cocoa, caroling and romance.
Earlier this 12 months, Netflix revealed its first three motion pictures; Scorching 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 Might 2024, it added The Merry Gentleman to its slate, which can function Britt Robertson as a former big-city dancer who tries to save lots of her mother and father’ small-town store.
“My character Ashley has been a profitable Broadway dancer for her complete grownup profession, she returns to her hometown and is confronted with determining what she needs for her future, whereas additionally reinventing her mother and father’ native enterprise,” Robertson advised Netflix’s Tudum about her function. “I really like with the ability to encompass myself with family and friends, enhance a Christmas tree, cook dinner recent baked items and have a good time our lives collectively,” she says.” With the ability to convey my favourite individuals collectively to look at 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 probably 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 have 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 taking pictures to stardom as Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill.)
“Luke is sort, 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 scenario and is pushed to the bounds of comfortability.”
As for why Murray took on the function, he advised the streaming big, “Vacation motion pictures convey so many people the peace and calm we like to take pleasure in over the vacations. These movies convey us collectively and provides us adventures to take pleasure in as a household.”
Hold scrolling for an entire information to Netflix’s vacation film lineup:
‘Scorching 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 snicker, 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 goals leads her on a race towards 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, a lot 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 affix her in 2018’s A Christmas Contract on Lifetime. One 12 months 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.