Movie studios to Santa: Drop dead.
For now, anyway.
It’s hard to know how much is cultural, how much is financial and how much is cyclical. But whatever the reason, there isn’t a single Christmas movie on studios’ calendar this December.
There are, of course, a number of movies meant to appeal to family audiences: the Jack Black adaptation of “Gulliver’s Travels,” the latest “Chronicles of Narnia” installment, a “Tron” sequel. But movies having to do with snow, reindeer, Santa or anything else holiday are nowhere to be found.
There isn’t even a darkly comic anti-Christmas movie, like a “Bad Santa” or “Christmas with the Kranks.” (The lone Christmas release of any kind, Elle Fanning’s “Nutcracker in 3-D,” wasn’t released by a studio and is a holiday turkey; about seven people have seen it since it came out two weeks ago.)
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