#Pantone 2019

[jyuriadunkel]

Remember the Pantone Color of the year?

2019 color was Living Coral🧡 and I made once again an illustration using some color palettes from their website~

Which combination do you like the most?

[sweetvpr]

SWEETVIPER is a seven-member South Korean girl group formed through the survival show SEARCHING FOR SWEETVIPER by WICKEDWAVE MEDIA. The group consists of seven members: KYLIE , SANGHEE, YUEQING, CHAEWON, ZOEY, DOHEE, and YUAE. They officially made their debuted on MAY 12, 2023 with their debut self titled album "SWEETVIPER" with the lead single “NOTHING BUT ICONS.” which showcases the group’s fierce determination and unique voice in the music industry.

GROUP NAME MEANING

Their name reflects their versatile concept, merging a gentle and alluring image (“Sweet”) with a strong and impactful presence (“Viper”)

GROUP INFORMATION

GROUP NAME – SWEETVIPER | 스윗바이퍼

MEMBERS – KYLIE, SANGHEE, YUEQING, CHAEWON, ZOEY, DOHEE, YUAE

SUBUNIT(S) – SWEETVIPER ZINGZANG | 스윗바이퍼 징짱

LABEL – WICKEDWAVE MEDIA

COLORS – #980001 (Pantone 207 C), #D0006F (Pantone 226 C), #8FE2B0 (Pantone 7456 C)

FANDOM — VIPERLINGS (바이퍼링스)

GREETING — “Sweet and fierce, we are SWEETVIPER!”

DEBUT DATE – MAY 12, 2017

DEBUT SONG — NOTHING BUT ICONS

DEBUT ALBUM — SWEETVIPER

MEMBERS

MOON 'KYLIE' SEOYOUNG (98) - LEADER, MAIN RAPPER, LEAD DANCER, VOCALIST

JEONG SANGHEE (98) - MAIN VOCALIST, LEAD RAPPER, VISUAL

FAN YUEQING (99) - MAIN VOCALIST, FACE OF THE GROUP

MIN CHAEWON (99) - MAIN DANCER, LEAD RAPPER, VOCALIST

KWAK 'ZOEY' JIWOO (00) - MAIN DANCER, LEAD RAPPER, VOCALIST

HAN DOHEE (00) - LEAD DANCER, LEAD RAPPER, VOCALIST, VISUAL

YU 'YUAE' SINAE (00) - LEAD DANCER, LEAD VOCALIST, RAPPER, FACE OF THE GROUP, MAKNAE

DISCOGRAPHY

SWEETVIPER (2023)

VENOMOUS (2024)

[blorbocedes]

pantone colour of the year being peach fuzz feels super dated. like 2019 ass 🍑. they dropped the ball this year

[pajjorimre]

Semmitmondó kis kapu egy 200 éves épületen az óváros szélén, mellette pad, bent meg ócskásbolt és kerámiaüzem, a kisöreg kézzel festette bent a holmit (fotózni tilos!!), 15€/db, olyanok a színek rajtuk mintha 20 éve sütné a nap, újonnan bontott, Pantone tud olyanokat. Meg a kisöreg.

2019 március 2, Faro, Portugália

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9-10), then San Francisco (Mar 13), Anaheim, and more!

#20yrsago Lego Pantone values https://memex.craphound.com/2004/03/04/lego-pantone-values/

#20yrsago Mojo Nixon retiring https://web.archive.org/web/20040402054153/http://www.mojonixon.com/

#20yrsago Jay-Z construction set http://www.jayzconstructionset.com

#20yrsago Anthropomorphic Mars Rover LiveJournal https://opportunitygrrl.livejournal.com

#15yrsago Child in wet bathing suit made to stand in -5F weather because school policy forbade her from waiting in teacher’s car https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/teen-teachers-made-me-stand-outside-in-wet-bathing-suit-barefoot/

#10yrsago Data-compression with playing cards https://www.timwarriner.com/carddata/index.html

#10yrsago David Cameron’s porn-filter advisor arrested for possession of images of sexual abuse of children https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/senior-tory-adviser-patrick-rock-arrested-on-child-pornography-allegations-9166837.html

#10yrsago Free download of danah boyd’s must-read book “It’s Complicated” https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/03/03/its-complicated-open-access.html

#10yrsago Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard https://ia800202.us.archive.org/17/items/CoryDoctorowPodcast267ColdEquationsAndMoralHazard/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_267_Cold_Equations_and_Moral_Hazard.mp3

#10yrsago Guy who “fixed” women’s computers spied through their webcams https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cyber-voyeur

#10yrsago Barrett Brown legal motion: linking is protected by the First Amendment https://web.archive.org/web/20140307111151/http://freebarrettbrown.org/right-to-link/

#5yrsago Fox News was always partisan, but now it is rudderless and “anti-democratic” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house

#5yrsago How the patent office’s lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed to defraud investors and patients https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/theranos-how-a-broken-patent-system-sustained-its-decade-long-deception/

#5yrsago Open dataset of 1.78b links from the public web, 2016-2019 https://blog.gdeltproject.org/who-links-to-whom-the-30m-edge-gkg-outlink-domain-graph-april-2016-to-jan-2019/

#5yrsago Automated reception kiosks are a security dumpster fire https://securityintelligence.com/stranger-danger-x-force-red-finds-19-vulnerabilities-in-visitor-management-systems/

#5yrsago Alias: a smart-speaker “parasite” that blocks your speaker’s sensors until you activate it https://web.archive.org/web/20190321085518/https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project_alias

#5yrsago Financialization is wearing out its welcome https://www.ft.com/content/a9f13afc-3c3d-11e9-b856-5404d3811663

#5yrsago German data privacy commissioner says Article 13 inevitably leads to filters, which inevitably lead to internet “oligopoly” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/german-data-privacy-commissioner-says-article-13-inevitably-leads-filters-which

#5yrsago Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/04/tim-maughans-infinite-detail-a-debut-sf-novel-about-counterculture-resistance-and-the-post-internet-apocalypse/

#5yrsago Terra Nullius: Grifters, settler colonialism and “intellectual property” https://locusmag.com/2019/03/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius/

#5yrsago Leaked memo suggests that Google has not really canceled its censored, spying Chinese search tool https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/google-ongoing-project-dragonfly/

#1yrago Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pick-all-three/#agonism

[mbrainspaz]

I applied to that job my gran sent me as kind of a prank. I just wanted to see how bad the pay they were offering was to have more ammunition next time she tried to whine about 'young people these days.' But now they want to interview me and keep asking what my 'expected salary' is or whatever. Initially I said, 'my main concern is housing. I need to be able to afford a local place.' They kept asking. So I went and looked at the local market...

when I say it's bleak, that doesn't even begin to describe the despair of doing the math I've done today.

Turns out I'd need a salary of 60K to be able to afford rent.

Now—

Google does think that entry level pay for a designer (that's me!) in Texas should be 50-60K, but to that I say IN WHAT UNIVERSE? I was barely making 35K when I left my company job to go freelance 5 years ago, and that was after 3 years of significant raises for my astronomically stellar performance ('cause I'm good at my job(s)) as a freaking Creative Director with a BFA. That didn't stop the local magazine I interviewed at in 2019 from giving me a 2 page 'quiz' about how to use an Xacto knife and pantone codes like it was 1999, then spending the whole interview complaining about how they can't find anyone who isn't self taught while I was sitting right there repeatedly pointing out that I had a degree. Anyway let's go check out the ONLY property within a reasonable commuting distance of the job currently listed on Zillow for less than 1K a month.

mmmmm cozy.

Of course if I didn't currently have a job and a house (as part of my job), my fallback would be looking to buy another RV. That or using my savings to flee to Europe.

[k00295822]

Notes on Colour Theory Seminars

Pantone

Pantone standard colour matching system, used by over 10 million designers, ensures standardisation

Pantone uses the CMYK process

As of 2023 there are 2390 colours in the Pantone system

By pairing grey as an accent with other colours it increases the viewers perception that the other colour has a metallic taint

My favourite Pantone colours of the year

2022, Very Peri, 17-3938

2019, Living Coral, 16-1546

2017, Greenery, 15-0343

2014 Radiant Orchid, 18-3224

2012, Tangerine Tango, 17-1463

Use of Colour in the Real World

London Underground uses coloured lines that are all horizontal, vertical or diagonal at 45 degrees to create a simplified map of all the stations and stops that’s easier for the user to navigate

Road Signage

Brown indicates areas of historical interest, white for place names, yellow for roads

In the late 1950s, Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, two British graphic designers, created the signage from the UK motorways and created new fonts for them. This signage was later adopted by Ireland too.

Contested Spaces

Derry is a prime example of a contested space in Ireland. On the Bogside (mainly catholic area) of Derry, the tricolour is widely used as a symbol of Irish nationalism

While on the Waterside, the Loyalist (Protestant) area, the use of Union Jack colours and orange dominate the area.

Our postboxes were originally red under British rule, 1922 when we gained our independence, painted green

Use In Fine Art

International Klein Blue

Developed by Yves Klein

Heavy reliance on ultramarine

Copyrighted the colour in 1958

Used Klein Blue as a central component in his works

Vantablack

absorbs 99.96% of light

When lights hits the pigment it becomes trapped inside it

Developed for military purposes by the company NanoSystems

Anish Kapoor bought the colour from NanoSystems

The Worlds Pinkest Pink

In 2016 Stuart Semple created the world’s “Pinkest Pink” in retaliation to Kapoor buying the rights to Vantablack

Semples pink is available to everybody except Kapoor, who is banned from buying it

Must sign a contract when you’re buying it that you’ve no affiliation with Kapoor

[elizabethplaid]

a few more knitting notes for the night

Well, I didn't clean off the whole couch like I planned, but I at least sifted through the in-progress yarn bin.

I counted my deflated (not-yet-stuffed) pumpkins: 2 large and 7 mini. That's all the stuff I've knit since the last "stuffing spree", back in August. So 9 back then, 9 now = 18 pumpkins.

Next step is to tidy the yarn I've worked with over the summer. Some already went back in the big bin. A couple skeins need to be rewound. I need to separate a two-ply novelty yarn, to separate the eyelashes from the pom-poms. (It looks like clown pox, I stg.)

The leftover yarn bits from the Pantone hat were also loose in my bin. I don't want to start the 2nd hat yet, because Caron (the yarn company) really made the hanks look amazing. I'd like to display that next to the hat I made, so people can see why the colors are like that.

------------ I showed my dad the "harvest" of deflated pumpkins, along with the stuffed ones I've stashed away. (Also showed him the group photo from August.) He asked about pricing, and I said $10-15 for the smaller ones and $20-25 on the larger ones. He made a face and implied the prices were too high. I said Neighbor-G would fuss at me if I priced them too low, and I'm going to offer a discount for people buying multiple items.

If anyone wants to do a trade or partial trade, I would absolutely love that. Craft fair aside, K (from the library) and I have already discussed trading work between us. I plan to knit her a hooded scarf, and she will help me out with some quilting things. LL-J has destashed a bunch of yarn on me, so I don't mind giving her discounts or gifts. (I gave her 2 or 3 pumpkins last year.)

I know I won't sell everything, especially the pumpkins. I didn't make many cowls for that exact reason. It's 3 cowls (I decided to sell the dark green one), 2 scarves, the pumpkins, the cat-toy mice, and anything else will be display. (eg the Pantone hat, Harmony's sweaters, my leaf and mermaid shawls, etc)

Ugh, semi-irrationally, I'm pissed. Like, of COURSE I know pricing is tough. Appropriate for time-effort-materials versus what "sells", without alienating potential customers. I'm not trying to make a living, but I also know that whatever's left might make me feel discouraged.

Thank god for Neighbor-G being so supportive of me. She's the one that got me to attend (just displaying stuff for fun) in 2019. She's already jokingly warned me about pricing myself too low. She feels like the encouraging female role model that I really need, especially because she knows crafts and pricing and such. And dad trusts her, after working together in the community for many years.

2020 and 2021 were really rough for me, after a few years of decline. (I think I was really out of it by the end of 2017, but 2016 was still really good for me.) I still haven't taken doll pics in ages, but I'm so happy to be crafting again. Volunteering at the library and befriending LL-J made a huge difference. I'm so incredibly proud of my progress - stuff that's easy to show off to other people, rather than just my own personal victories.

With rejection-sensitive-dysphoria, a little stumble or set-back can throw me off for quite a while. Example: The Pantone hat ended up being too small. I got pumpkins stuffed within a week or so, but I think it took another month before I really got back into knitting. (That was also when I was getting into the cell phone games, oops.)

My point is that bringing up the pricing issue is another RSD trigger to me. It feels discouraging to think of how much -won't- sell. And if it's not selling solely because of my pricing, that'd be a big pain. Again, I want to bargain and trade with folks. I'd rather stuff gets taken home by other people, rather than ensuring I make a big profit. And it might not even be for other craft fair items. Like, "hey, run to the store and fetch me a snack" or something.

I think K and my counselor would say that's good for networking and building a presence in the community.

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HOLY FUCK, I just remembered I had a biscornu (embroidered pin cushion) I was supposed to sell! I set that aside, because I have to sew the panels together and stuff it. Holy fuck, holy fuck, that's hilarious. Like, I started that thing last October!

*sigh* I have 2 weeks. It doesn't have to be done all at once. I could probably stuff pumpkins while I man the table, and people would love it.

[sleepykittypaws]

2024 TV Holiday Premieres

No Longer Being Regularly Updated As Of June 14, 2023

ABC

The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration (musical performances and holiday celebrations from various Disney properties) - Nov. 30

Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (annual holiday parade/musical showcase taped in Disney World, Disneyland and other Disney Parks worldwide) - Dec. 25

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025 (LIVE annual Times Square ball drop celebration hosted by Seacrest) - Dec. 31

CMA Country Christmas (annual holiday concert special) - TBA (Website)

The Great Christmas Light Fight (season 12 of the reality competition featuring outrageous holiday displays) - TBA (Facebook)

NBC

135th Rose Parade (Annual New Year’s parade LIVE from Pasadena, Calif., hosted by Hoda Kotb and Al Roker.) - Jan. 1

A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving Special (highlights from SNL’s best Thanksgiving sketches) - Nov. 27

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (official parade coverage, LIVE)  - Nov. 28

The National Dog Show (taped coverage of the 2024 National Dog Show from Oaks, Pennsylvania, hosted by John O’Hurley) - Nov. 28

101st Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center (annual New York City tree lighting, LIVE) - Dec. 4

A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special (highlights from SNL’s best Christmas sketches) - Dec. TBA

CBS

The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS (unofficial coverage of the Macy’s parade, LIVE)  - Nov. 28

Byron Allen Presents a Merry Soulful Christmas (musical special hosted by Byron Allen; originally announced for December 2023 but delayed) - TBA

PBS

Call the Midwife Christmas Special 2024 (special holiday episode of the 13th season of the long-running BBC series, airing same day as in the UK) - Dec. 25

Hallmark

Holidazed (limited holiday series starring Erin Cahill, Ian Harding, Nansen Contractor, Giles Panton, Noemi Gonzalez, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Loretta Devine, Lillian Lim, Tim Perez, Barry Levy and Jacob Insley; written by Claudia Grazioso; Six Oregon families living in the same cul-de-sac deal with the highs and lows of the holidays; filmed in Victoria and Duncan, B.C.) - TBA

Lifetime

Merry Liddle Christmas Vacation (holiday sequel to 2019′s  Merry Liddle Christmas, 2020′s Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding and 2021′s Merry Liddle Christmas Baby; starring Kelly Rowland, LaTonya Williams, Bresha Webb, Jaime M Callica, Nathan Witte, Thomas Cadrot and Debbi Morgan; written by Andrea Stevens and King Hassan; The Liddle family goes on a holiday vacation to celebrate Tyler and Jacquie’s birthday and their toddler twins birthdays; announced in 2022 but delayed due to the strikes; filmed in B.C.) - TBA

Great American Family (formerly GAC)

⚠️ Want all to be aware there is more to GA Family, née GAC, than G-rated Christmas movies. Though I’m including dates and details here in the spirit of being a completist, worth noting the funding and founding of this channel, which comes from the Donald Trump-aligned Hicks Equity Group, brings with it an explicit anti-diversity agenda, hiding under guise of harmless sounding words like “family-friendly” and “safe” programming. More detailed explanation here (bottom of page), and additional more recent thoughts, for those who want it. And if you’re looking for outside sources on GAF’s political affiliations and lack of inclusion, see these stories from The Daily Beast, Vulture, the L.A. Times and Bloomberg.

A Sound of Music Christmas (holiday movie inspired by the Sound of Music; written and directed by Michael and Janeen Damian; filmed in Austria) - TBA

TV One

In the Kitchen with Tamar & Evelyn Braxton (holiday cooking special featuring the mother-daughter duo’s own recipes from every holiday) - TBA

Max

The Naughty One (action-comedy written by Zach Helm and produced by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, announced in 2021) - TBA

Britbox

Mrs. Brown’s Boys New Year’s Special (one-off holiday episode of the series; available same day as UK) - Jan. 1

The Jonathan Ross Show Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2023 special holiday episode of the chat show) - Jan. 24

Death in Paradise Christmas 2024 (holiday movie based on the BBC series starring Sara Martins and Ralf Little about a British detective sent to a Caribbean island; filmed in Guadeloupe; available same day as UK) - TBA

The King’s Christmas Address (annual holiday speech delivered by King Charles III via the BBC) - Dec. 25

Disney+

Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas (Bret McKenzie-produced remake of the 1977 Muppet ABC special in conjunction with the Jim Henson company; announced in 2019) - TBA

Twas’ The Night (musical anthology holiday series written and produced by David E. Talbert; Santa tells his grandchildren stories of his holiday adventures; announced in 2023) - TBA

Apple TV+

Wolfs (at least partially holiday-set thriller starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Amy Ryan; written and directed by Jon Watts; A pair of lone wolf fixers are forced to team up; filmed in New York and L.A.) - TBA

Lady in the Lake (at least partially holiday-set series starring Natalie Portman; based on the book by Laura Lippman; A 1960s housewife who dreams of becoming a journalist, investigates two seemingly unconnected, unsolved murders; set and filmed in Baltimore) - TBA 

Paramount+

Winter Spring Summer or Fall (holiday romance starring Jenna Ortega, Percy Hynes White and Adam Rodriguez; directed by Tiffany Paulsen; written by Dan Schoffer and Paulsen; Two teens fall in love over four days across different seasons; filmed in Utah) - TBA

Prime Video

One Fine Morning (a.k.a. Un Beau Matin; French-language, partially holiday-set movie starring Pascal Lea-Seydoux, Melvil Greggory, Nicole Poupaud and Garcia; written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love; A widow and single mom juggles caring for her family, including her father with dementia, and a new affair with an old friend of her late husband’s) - Jan. 1 (Trailer)

Ex-Mas (holiday teen rom-com based on the book by Kate Brian; Two teen exes go on a road trip to rescue their little brothers, who have set on a quest to save Santa from global warming; announced in 2020) - TBA

Red One (big-budget holiday action movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel and Mary Elizabeth Ellis; directed by Jake Kasdan; written by Chris Morgan; The leader of an elite force named the E.L.F must protect Santa and Christmas from those who seek to destroy it) - TBA

Suddenly It’s Christmas (English-language remake of 2022 Italian family film Improvvisamente Natale, directed by Peter Chelsom; adapted by Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay; When a young girl learns that a summer trip to her beloved grandfather’s hotel, where they usually spend the holidays, is cover for her parents telling her they’re getting divorced, she and her grandfather plan to recreate a perfect Christmas in hopes of reuniting her parents; filmed in Italy) - TBA

Hope (limited series based on the 2019 Oscar-nominated, holiday-set Norwegian movie; adapted by Alice Ball and starring Nicole Kidman; A May-December marriage where the younger half of the couple is diagnosed with a brain tumor which they keep secret from their family at the holidays; announced in 2021) - TBA

12 Days of Christmas (holiday movie produced by and starring Stephen Curry; directed by Charles Stone III; written by Kevin Heffernan and Peter Gaulke; A kid and holiday-hating man wakes up a dad, adding a new child every day until Christmas; announced in 2021) - TBA

The Man with the Bag (holiday movie starring Alan Ritchson; directed by Adam Shankman; written by Allan Rice; Santa enlists the help of a thief after his magic bag is stolen; announced in 2023) - TBA

Santa is Real (musical holiday movie written by Laura Rosann) - TBA

The Truth About Mrs. Claus (holiday movie based on the bestselling book by Meena Harris; adapted by Taylor Chukwu; An elf learns the North Pole’s greatest secret: Mrs. Claus runs it all; announced in 2023) - TBA

Netflix

Boy Swallows Universe (magical-realist series starring Travis Fimmel, Felix Cameron, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin and Lee Tiger Halley; based on the novel by Trent Dalton; adapted by John Collee; A boy who receives a mysterious phone call on Christmas Day, must break his mother out of a feared prison; filmed and set in Brisbane, Australia) - Jan. 11 (Trailer)

Meet Me Next Christmas (holiday rom-com starring Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Kofi Siriboe, Kalen Allen and Pentatonix; directed by Rusty Cundieff; written by Camilla Cordelia and Molly Halderman; To meet up with the man of her dreams, a woman must somehow find a ticket to a sold out Christmas Eve concert; filmed in Toronto) - TBA

Our Little Secret (holiday movie starring Lindsay Lohan, Ian Harding, Kristin Chenoweth and Tim Meadows; Bitter exes discover they’re currently dating siblings when they all get taken home for the holidays and try to hide their past from everyone) - TBA

The Thanksgiving Text (based-on-a-true-story tale of an accidental holiday invite that led to a lifelong tradition and friendship; written by Abdul Williams; announced in 2021; filmed in Arizona) - TBA

Auntie Claus (Kenny Ortega produced and directed musical based on the children’s book series by Elise Primavera, adapted by Tiffany Paulsen; A materialistic young girl learns the true nature of giving through her adventures at the North Pole with her eccentric aunt; announced in 2019) -TBA

One Day in December (holiday-set series starring Lucy Boynton; directed by Drake Doremus; based on the book by Josie Silver; A chance sighting on a bus leads to star-crossed, complicated love across multiple years and holidays; reported in 2023) - TBA

That Christmas (Richard Curtis working with Locksmith Animation and co-writing script with Peter Souter, based on Curtis’ own children’s holiday book series—The Empty Stocking, Snow Day and That Christmas; directed by Simon Otto; combining the storylines from all three children’s books and setting them simultaneously in one English beach village, Curtis calls the animated movie, “Love Actually for kids.”) - TBA

Carry On (holiday-set action-thriller starring Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler and Jason Bateman; directed by Jaume Collet-Serra; written by TJ Fixman and Michael Green; A TSA agent is blackmailed into putting a mysterious package on a Christmas Day flight; filmed in New Orleans) - TBA

Black Doves (holiday-set spy thriller six-episode series starring Ben Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire and Keira Knightley; A politician’s wife/spy seeks to get to the bottom of who killed her lover, and why, with the help of the only friend she can trust; announced in 2023; filmed in London) - TBA

Prentice Penny Project (writer/director Prentice Penny’s “magical” African-American family film based on he and his wife, Tasha’s, original idea; announced in 2020) - TBA

The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (US debut of 2023 Christmas Eve and New Year’s special episodes of the Great British Bake Off, featuring returning Bake Off favorites battling for holiday cake plates) - TBA

The Snow Sister (Norwegian original movie starring Mudit Gupta and Celina Meyer Holland; based on the children’s book, and adapted by author Maja Lunde; The youngest member of a family devastated by grief meets a mysterious Christmas-loving girl named Hedwig) - TBA

MyTime Movie Network

Xmas Clue (original holiday limited series co-produced with France’s TF1) - TBA

Freevee

Mistletoe Mixup 2 (holiday movie sequel to the 2021 film starring  Matthew Lawrence, Danielle C. Ryan  and Joey Lawrence; directed by Andrew Lawrence) - TBA

Digital/DVD/Other

SLEIGH (holiday horror short starring Zoey Luna and Maxwell Almond; written and directed by Stella Alfaro; Pagan artists gather to celebrate the solstice) - Jan. 8, Amazon PVOD (Instagram)

Ghosts Christmas Special: A Christmas Gift (2023 Christmas special and series finale of the BBC series; first time available in the U.S.) - Jan. 16, PVOD

It’s Me, Billy Chapter 2 (holiday movie sequel starring 1974 original actors Olivia Hussey and Lynne Griffin to the 2021 Black Christmas fan-film from Dave McRae bringing the saga “to an unofficial and epic conclusion”) - Oct. 11, YouTube

Saint Nick of Bethlehem (holiday movie starring Daniel Roebuck, Cathy Moriarty and Duane Whitaker; directed by Spencer Folmar and Roebuck; A man who lost his own son finds joy in giving presents to other children; based on a true story and filmed in Bethlehem, Pa.) - Nov. 14

Athena Saves Christmas (holiday comedy starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Joseph Baena, Ludovica Frasca, Paxton Kubitz, Michael Blackson, Robert Costanzo and Glenn Plummer; directed by Josh Webber; written by Greg Crowder and Webber; A group of young adults and their dog must solve a series of riddles to save Christmas in their town from a mob boss; filmed in Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead, Calif.) - Nov. 23

Silent Night Bloody Night 3 (holiday slasher sequel starring Lloyd Kaufman, Julie Anne Prescott and Tina Krause; written and directed by Will Collazo Jr. and Prescott; The final girl wakes up in an asylum and must avoid being murdered by a killer who wants to see her dead for the holidays) - Dec. 25

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (holiday movie remake/reboot of the 1964 cult classic, directed and produced by Cynthia Webster; Santa tries to save what’s left of humanity by bringing Christmas to Mars for the first time.) - TBA

How to Make Gravy (Australian holiday movie starring Hugo Weaving, Daniel Henshall, Brenton Thwaites, Damon Herriman, Kate Mulvany and Agathe Rouselle; based on the song by Paul Kelly; directed by Nick Waterman; written by Megan Washington and Washington; A prisoner named Joe writes to his brother about his longing to be home for Christmas; announced in 2022) - TBA, Australia on Binge

Dimming Lights (holiday drama starring Laura Mitchell. Heather Fraley, TeriEnna Blanco and Michael Newman; written and directed by Preston Walden; Sisters return home for the holidays and find their estranged mother in the grip of dementia; filmed in Tampa, Fla.) - TBA

A Christmas Cheer (holiday movie written by Clint Ford; What happens to Ebenezer Scrooge, and Jacob Marley’s ghost, after the events of A Christmas Carol?; won a screenplay contest in 2020) - TBA

Four Cousins and a Christmas Wedding (holiday movie sequel to 2021′s  Four Cousins and a Christmas, starring Raffaela Capp, Natasha Capp, Ayla Kell and Lily Gibson; written and directed by Maria Capp) - TBA 

Finding Her Voice for Christmas (faith-based holiday movie based on the stage play Finding Her Voice; starring Don Dusty Phelps, Jessie Tate Jr. and Deandre Griffin; A revealed family secret results in a crisis of faith) - TBA 

A Chinatown Christmas (holiday movie based on the book by Kailin Gow and Nancy Wu; adapted and directed by Gow; An arrogant businessman who always spends Christmas eating alone at a local Chinese restaurant is angry with the owners when they decide to close for the holiday) - TBA

Let it Snow: A Christmas Time Loop (holiday movie where a teen has to help his best friend trapped in a holiday time loop; filmed in New York and New Jersey) - TBA

One Christmas Night in a Toy Store (holiday horror movie starring Simon Phillips and Sayla de Goede; directed by Paul Tanter; the third in the Santa slasher trilogy, this time Santa and Mrs. Claus take Christmas Eve hostages; filmed in Ottawa) - TBA

The Twelve Days After Christmas (holiday movie directed, starring and co-written by Melissa Archer; also featuring Laura Osnes) - TBA

Xmas at Moe’s (holiday movie written and directed by Ray J Pope; Brothers have to put aside their differences in order to save a homeless shelter at the holidays; filmed in Atlanta) - TBA

A Brooklyn Christmas (faith-based holiday movie directed by Shaun Paul Piccinino; co-written by Drew Henriksen and Anthony Mangano; A bookie finds himself forced into being a holiday hero) - TBA (Website)

Hungry Bear Tales to the Pole! (Czech animated holiday special directed by Katerina Karhankova; based on the books by Zbynek Cernik; Two bears travel to the North Pole for the annual popsicle festival, with a little help from some friends) - TBA (YouTube shorts)

Christmas at the St. Nick (holiday movie written by Mark Amato; holiday travelers reluctantly team up to make their holiday plans happen, but find themselves falling in love) - TBA

Ellie and the Christmas Creep (animated movie from Luxembourg-based animation studio Fabrique d'Images; directed by Caroline Origer; An intrepid elf tries to save Santa from his fame obsession she believes is caused by a creep) - TBA (Website)

Aubrey Flint’s Christmas (holiday comedy directed by Jack Spring; written by Chris Boyle-McQuarry; filmed in UK) - TBA

It Happened on Christmas (small-budget holiday movie written, directed and starring LP Green, along with Leandro Somoza and Jonna Devereaux) - TBA (Instagram)

Family Christmas (holiday movie starring Rían Sheehy Kelly, Jeremy Holm, John Pirruccello and Emma Jo Boyden; directed and co-written by Michael Moreci; A holiday heist collides with stranded travelers trying to get home in time for Christmas; filmed in Champaign, Ill.) - TBA

The Santa Assist (holiday movie starring Eric Roberts; directed by Ross Marks; Santa goes to New Mexico to fix a relative’s problem and ends up falling in love; filmed in Las Cruces, N.M.) - TBA

Manuscript (holiday-set thriller about a trio of friends who find an unpublished work that could bring fame and fortune and slowly turn on one another during a Christmas pre-party; filmed in Pennsylvania) - TBA 

The McNamara Brothers Christmas Story (holiday movie written and directed by Marc Alan Solomon; A group of friends and family come together for a Christmas Eve game night where secrets are revealed; filmed in Claxton, Ga.) - TBA

It’s Christmas! (holiday movie starring Brittany Snow, Lucas Bravo,Simon Callow, Chloé Jouannet, Elektra Kilbey, Richard Elis and Ben McGregor; written and directed by Jamie Adams; Hoping to bring her husband’s dysfunctional family closer in the wake of his mother’s death, a wife invents list of holiday tasks she claims her mother-in-law wanted them all to do; filmed in Wales) - TBA

We Wish You a Dairy Christmas (holiday movie starring Aeon Cruz and Brit Ellerman; directed and co-written by Elgin Cahill; A woman reluctantly returns home to help save her family’s farm) - TBA

Feather Christmas (holiday movie starring Ocean M Harris, Tom Machell and Teresa Dawn Taylor; directed by Lucy Turner, written by Dan William O’Leary; filmed in the UK) - TBA (Instagram)

Niko: Beyond the Northern Lights (international animated movie sequel to 2008′s The Flight Before Christmas and 2012′s Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure; co-directed by Kari Juusonen and Jørgen Lerdam; Niko dreams of being a member of Santa’s flying forces, but faces stiff competition for the job) - TBA

A Very Bavarian Christmas (holiday movie based on the novel by Katie M Reid; A single woman who feels stuck in her small, holiday-themed town and dead-end job at a Christmas store, unexpectedly finds love as she regains her holiday spirit) - TBA

Date for Christmas (holiday movie directed by Louise Alston; written by Stephen Vagg; A women invents a fake fiancee to comfort her dying mother, but when mom unexpectedly recovers she has to keep the con going for the holidays) - TBA

Last Christmas on Walden St (small-budget holiday movie written, directed and starring Tyler Cole, along with Roni Weissman; filmed in Georgia) - TBA

Carnage for Christmas (partially crowd-funded holiday horror film starring Jeremy Moineau, Joe Romeo, Dominique Booth, Cassie Hamilton, Toshiro Glenn and Olivia Deeble; written and directed by teen filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay; When a trans true-crime podcaster returns home for the holidays for the first time since transitioning, she’s drawn into a murderous ghost story that might just be real) - TBA (IndieGoGo)

Pastor Sue’s Christmas (right-wing holiday movie starring Rebecca Grant and Joy Villa; co-directed by Chris Johnson and Villa; filmed in California) - TBA

Tinsel (holiday short starring Maja Bloom and Nathan J Lloyd; written and directed by Davey Ezra; An actor working as a mall elf becomes an '80s action-movie hero when he diffuses a holiday hostage situation; filmed in Portsmouth, England) - TBA (Instagram)

Hot Mom (holiday-set comedy written and directed by Jimmy Kustes; A college student and his girlfriend spend the holidays with his mom and her new boyfriend; filmed in Tampa, Fla.) - TBA

Lumia (six-episode holiday series created by Created by Anastasia Heinzl and Pöllä; A Parisian teen is forced to spend the holidays in rural Finland with her mother, where she starts seeing strange lights in forest) - TBA

Mr. Santa the Musical Christmas Extravaganza (holiday movie starring Geoffrey Owens, Tommy Davidson, Peter Donald Badalamenti II and Paul Kevins; written and directed by Noel Calloway; With Christmas spirit at an all-time low, Santa goes undercover as a high school teacher to try and convince teens to believe in holiday magic again; filmed in New York City) - TBA

I’ll Be Dead for Christmas (holiday horror movie starring, written and directed by Geordy Skolnick; along with J.C. Hoffman, Jilly Kent, Joshua R. Pangborn, Ximena Zavala, and Heth Weinstein; A mentally disturbed patient blackmails a hospital employee into telling horrifying stories on Christmas Eve) - TBA

A Very Elevated Christmas (holiday movie starring Frank Powers, Michelle Martinez and J.D. Hernandez; directed by Luis Perez) - TBA (Facebook) 

Christmas with Buddy (faith-based drama starring Joseph Gray and Brian Biggers; directed by Cameron Arnett and Cornelius Muller; written by Michael D Acosta; A young man with cerebral palsy tries to figure out what God’s purpose for him is; filmed in North Carolina) - TBA

A Carolina Christmas (holiday movie starring Kelly Lynn Reiter, Melissa Reeves and Matthew Ashford; written by David Michael Ross; A snowstorm traps a divorced couple together at the holidays as their daughter schemes to reunite them) - TBA

The Town of Tails (a.k.a  Kruuna; four-episode Finnish holiday series from creator Minna Panjanen; A professor who years ago found his parents murdered on Christmas Eve investigates another mysterious death in Tails, with the help of a Christmas spirit only he can see) - TBA

Family Christmas (holiday movie produced by Kenneth Van Camp; A woman giving up hope on true love has to decide whether to settle for an old flame or take a chance on a new, holiday romance; filmed in Detroit) - TBA

An Emerald Coast Christmas (small-budget holiday movie written, directed and starring Elesia Marie, along with Shannon Williams and Teance Blackburn; A big city culinary school grad heads home for the holidays; filmed in Florida) - TBA (Website)

How to Kill Your Family and Get Away with It (holiday horror movie starring Eden Shea Beck; directed by Robbie Dias; written by Marc Gottlieb; An extremely dysfunctional family gathers in a secluded cabin for the holidays, hiding dark secrets that lead to murder; filmed in Big Bear, Calif.) - TBA

Christmas Kennel (holiday movie starring Tatyana Ali, RaéVen Kelly, Marla Gibbs, Angela Gibbs and Malcolm-Jamal Warner; directed by Sean Dinwoodie; filmed in Rhode Island and Connecticut) - TBA

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (holiday movie starring Michael Cera, Ben Shenkman, Francesca Scorsese, Sawyer Spielberg and Gregory Falatek; directed by Tyler Taormina; written by Eric Berger and Taormina; A family gathers for a final Christmas in their childhood home and a teenager looks to make her mark on the neighborhood; filmed in Smithtown, NY) - TBA

Holiday Holdup (holiday-set crime drama starring Jeremy Holm, John Pirruccello and Agnes Albright; written by Michael Moreci; Restaurant employees get revenge on their mob-tied employer) - TBA

Xmas in July (small budget black comedy take on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring, written and directed by Joel Clark, along with Crichton Atkinson and Daniel Martin Berkey; Ebenzer and Cratchitt experience multiple alternate realities, each more horrifying than the last; filmed in Brooklyn, N.Y.) - TBA (Website)

Ebenezer the Traveler (six-episode mini-series starring Jerry Parisi, Amanda Rae Dodson and Michael Bertolini; directed by Joe Valenti; written by Leland Prater; A look at what happened to Scrooge after the events of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol) - TBA (Website)

Once Upon a Christmas (faith-based holiday movie starring Garry Nation and Melissa Nunnally; directed by Nathan Blair; A Scrooge-like old man is turned back into a teenager by an angel, who warns him he must repair his family relationships by Christmas or be doomed; filmed in Denver) - TBA (Website)

Breakup Season (holiday movie starring Chandler Riggs and Samantha Isler; written and directed by H. Nelson Tracey; A man takes his girlfriend home for the holidays to meet his parents and things don’t go as planned; filmed in La Grande, Oregon) - TBA (Instagram)

Switched Up Christmas (holiday comedy starring Ava Torres, Levi Smith, Ella Fraley, Brian Villalobos and Van Quattro; directed and co-written by Zane Nixon; A dysfunctional family who has lost their Christmas spirit, finds themselves regaining their love of the season through a holiday body swap; filmed in Houston, Texas) - TBA

Oh Christmas Tree (holiday movie starring Mason Gillett, Kay Barnes, Rachel Petsiavas and Christopher Long; directed by Paul Duncan; filmed in North Carolina) - TBA (Website)

Dead for the Holidays (holiday horror movie starring Tifani Winkfield, Allen Yates and Carter Bratton; directed by Thomas Martin and Lawrence Sara) - TBA

Our Christmas House (holiday movie starring Michael Dumas, Whitney Bacon, Sabrina Orro, Precious Ugbodu and Andrew C. English Jr; directed by Annabel White; written by Jaron Lanier; A news anchor must choose between a big holiday story and the man she’s falling in love with) - TBA (IndieGoGo)

Our Church Thinks We’re Dating (holiday movie starring Ashley LaRae, Burke Brown, Megan Alexander and Mark Christopher Lawrence; directed and co-written by Tim Nolte; The last two unmarried people in a church group spend a holiday weekend pretending to date in order to stop others from constantly trying to set them up; filmed in Denver) - TBA (Facebook, Website, Trailer)

Christmas Crashers (small-budget holiday movie starring Christine Traversa, Bridget Nine, Steve Boress, Leanne Johnson and Zaine Bray; written and directed by Kevin L Mounce; A couple decide to step off the holiday fast track and recommit to each other, but not everyone is on board with their pared-down holiday plans; shot in central Illinois) - TBA (Website)

Little Miracles (small budget movie written and directed by Pat Denson; film version of her off-Broadway musical, Little Christmas Miracles; based on a true story tale of two recently widowed moms who take their kids on a holiday road trip) - TBA

The Christmas Forest (small budget movie from faith-based Wright Family Films; directed, written and starring Ashley Hays Wright) - TBA, YouTube

Kid Santa (Italian holiday movie, live-action/animation hybrid starring real-life brothers Alec and William Baldwin and Elva Trill; directed by Francesco Cinquemani; filmed in Rome) - TBA

Once Upon a Christmas Eve (faith-based holiday movie starring Najee De-Tiege, Hector David Jr., Michael Franklin, Alicia Tomasko, Sofia Lauren, Alexa Ketchum, Gabriella Estabrook and Gianna Angela; written and directed by Dominic Giannetti; Estranged siblings struggle to hold their family together at the holidays) - TBA

A Queer Christmas Carol (LGBTQ take on Charles Dickens’ classic starring Daniel Bainelebeau, Qiana Camille and Larry B. Carter II; written and directed by Henderson Maddox) - TBA

Needle Little Christmas (holiday movie starring Sara Waisglass, Jonathan Kite and Thomas Lennon; directed by Jason DeVan; When she dies just before Christmas, a woman gets the chance to return to earth in the form of a Christmas tree in hopes of and restoring her friends’ spirits; filmed in El Reno, Okla.) - TBA

Chicken Coop (holiday movie starring Monica Moore Smith, Eric Wood and Mark Bracich; written and directed by Joseph DeGolyer; Family secrets are revealed during a holiday trip home when an estranged father and son attempt to repair a broken pipe in a chicken coop; filmed in Utah) - TBA (Facebook)

Christmas at the Frat House (holiday movie starring Karon Riley, Lem Collins, Jared Wofford, Kevin Savage, Amber Reign Smith, Kelsi Lee and Jael Roberson; directed by Charmin Lee; written by Lem Collins; Four frat brothers make, and break, a pact not to marry for 10 years after college. The last man standing is set to propose at Christmas when secrets emerge from his friends’ relationships and his girlfriend’s past that could make him reconsider; filmed in Atlanta.) - TBA

A Screenshot to Santa (holiday movie starring Essence Atkins, Tony Rock, Torrei Hart, Kennedy Stephens, Shai Moss, Jacob Gaines and Ray Buffer; written and directed by Monica Floyd; While their parents are at a conference, a teenager sick of caring for her much younger sister sneaks out to see her boyfriend on Christmas Eve; filmed in L.A.) - TBA

(Once Upon a) Philly Christmas (faith-based holiday movie starring Robert Clohessy, Bridget White, Brian Anthony Wilson, Myles Clohessy, Shannon Wilson, Julianna Layne, Gabi Faye, Rich Enkels, Dominic Costa, Bridget White and Brian Anthony Wilson; directed by Bridget Smith and written by Mike Walsh; A teenage gamer accidentally travels back in time to Bethlehem, to make it home he needs to discover the true meaning of Christmas; filmed in Philadelphia) - TBA (Website)

Love After Holidays (holiday movie starring Darin D Barron, Jennifer Figuereo, Gabi Faye, Taral Hicks Dawson, Jeremy Meeks, Shari Ellis and Angela Perymon; directed by Antoine Allen; written by Maurice McCallum; based on the self-help book Love After by Jacinth Headlam; The rise and fall of a talk show host who loses everything; filmed in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) - TBA (Instagram)

A Kismet Holiday (holiday movie starring Karen Obilom, Joyful Drake, Lamman Rucker and Javon Johnson; co-written and directed by Chazitear; filmed in Washington, D.C.) - TBA

A Christmas in New Hope (holiday movie starring Adrianne Palicki, Malcolm Goodwin, Katrina Bowden, David Anders, Ryan Cooper and Mia Armstrong directed by Julia Barnett; co-written by Barnett and Kathleen Estes; A single mom of a special needs child enters a home renovation contest focused on saving her home from foreclosure, but things get complicated when she falls for her musician neighbor; filmed in Waco, Texas) - TBA

Gingersnap Christmas (holiday movie starring Desirée Ross, Jake Lockett, Natalie Buck, Réka Lukács and Obum Éji; directed by Julia Jay Pierrepont; written by Matt Lindenburg and Eva & Frank Myer; A grieving woman finds love and her Christmas spirit, while visiting her Caribbean grandmother for the holidays; filmed in L.A.) - TBA

Christmas on the North Pole Express (holiday movie starring Brian Boynton, Marla Moore, Riley Rose Downey and Sam Broome; written by Cody LaRue; Two people meet on the famed Christmas train while traveling to a wedding; filmed in Owosso, Michigan) - TBA

The Holiday Exchange (holiday movie starring Taylor Frey, Rick Cosnett, Samer Salem, Daniel Garcia, Blake Cooper Griffin, Joe Aaron Reid, Camila Banus, Nick Adams, Ashley Fink, Kyle Dean Massey and Kyle Richards; directed by Jake Helgren; written by Frey; A successful businessman enters into a holiday house swap and both he and the man he swapped with find new love; filmed in California) - TBA

Royal Runaways (a.k.a. A Little Faith; holiday movie starring Mark Cuban, Ashley Brinkman, Alex Day, Eliza Roberts, Naomi Matsuda, Mario Silva and Faysal Shafaat; written and directed by Candy Cain; When his father, the king, dies, a European prince flees to America and hides his identity by working in a winery) - TBA 

Holiday in the Hamptons (holiday movie starring Naomi Matsuda, Ashley Brinkman, Paulie Calafiore, Eve Kroh and Eric Roberts; written and directed by Candy Cain; A woman inherits her grandmother’s house at the holidays.) - TBA

A Jar Full of Christmas (holiday movie starring Brooke Burfitt, Cara Maria Sorbello and Jason Frederick; written and directed by Candy Cain; When a woman inherits her mom’s home, sparks fly with a childhood friend; filmed and set in Lake Placid, NY) - TBA

Christmas Overtime (holiday movie starring Meghan Carrasquillo, Jadon Cal and Laura Ault; directed by Ann Deborah Fishman; co-written by Fishman and Simon Parker; A holiday-hating actress must convince a Christmas-obsessed group she’s one of them in order to land a commercial) - TBA

Xmas Gamble (holiday movie starring Tom Arnold, Michael Madsen, Fernanda Romero and Waymond Lee; directed by Kenny Yates; written by Jerry Artukovich; A recovering gambling addict needs cash to save his mom’s home, realizing he’s never lost on Christmas, he rationalizes one last bet) - TBA

An Elliot and Friends Christmas Carol (puppet holiday special, based on featuring original characters created by Jeffrey Ault; starring Dana Anderwald, Alana Phillips and Dean Napolitano) -TBA (Trailer, Facebook)

Bring Back Christmas (holiday movie starring Ricardo Ortiz, Josh Zaharia, Casey James and Neil Charlesworth; directed by Rafael Nani; written by Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz; A materialistic teen wishes Christmas out of existence, making him the only one in the world who remembers the holiday; filmed in Vancouver, B.C.) - TBA (Website)

Christmas at the Mistletoe Inn (holiday movie directed by Lexi Giovagnoli; written by Vicki Vass; A jaded Christmas movie scout finds herself in a town straight out of one of her holiday movies; filmed in North Carolina) - TBA

Christmas Cover Up (holiday movie starring Ray Cunningham, Skye Griffin, Trina and Towanda Braxton; filmed in Houston) - TBA

Christmas Carole (a.k.a. Noël au Balcon; French-language holiday comedy starring Didier Bourdon, Noemie Lvovsky, Jules Sagot, Christophe Montenez, Alice Daubelcour and Janaïna Halloy-Fokan; directed by Jeanne Gottesdiener; A small-town mayor tries to coordinate her town’s holiday festivities while her husband holds down the holiday prep at home, until their adult children arrive and everything falls apart) - TBA, France

Christmas Licc (holiday movie short starring Taylor T-Dawg Da Don Butler, MW Maniak and Kea White; directed by Kimberly Latrice Jones; Friends attempt a misguided Christmas robbery to get out of a financial jam) - TBA (Twitter)

Winters’ Garden (a.k.a. The Christmas Garden; holiday movie starring Madeline Coughlan, Lior Selve, Federico Dordei, Peter Jason, Farah Merani and Chuck Marra; directed by Shari Hamrick Grewal; written by Joany Kane; A New York City cooking show host travels to lay the remains of a World War II nurse to rest in an English castle garden, and becomes enchanted by the site’s holiday charms; filmed in Lake Arrowhead, Calif.) - TBA  (Trailer)

Blended Christmas (holiday movie starring Jennifer Freeman, Anthony Dalton II, Victoria Rowell, Dream Doll, Carlee Elston and Charles Baston, written and directed by Tamala Baldwin; A new bride cancels her honeymoon to care for her husband’s ex after a freak accident; filmed in Atlanta) - TBA

Mississippi Christmas (holiday movie starring Darrin D Henson, Clifton Powell, Terri J Vaughn and Valarie Pettiford; written and directed by Christel Gibson; filmed in Atlanta) - TBA

Filthy Animals (written and directed by James T North IV; starring Raymond J Barry, Layla Louise, Hal Dion and Austin Wheeler; A pair of petty criminals stumble into a very dark Christmas) - Dec. TBA (Instagram, Website)

Civil Christmas (holiday musical starring Sophie Bolen and Kyle Patrick; A Southern belle shelters a wounded Union soldier on Christmas Eve; co-written and directed by Joel Paul Reisig; filmed in Michigan) - TBA

Christmas with the Pups (holiday movie starring Danielle Scott, Simon Ellis, Lila Lasso and Kitty Sudbery; directed by Louisa Warren; written by Tom Jolliffe; A ranch-owning family finds a Pomeranian at the holidays, unaware she already belongs to an influencer) - TBA (Trailer)

Meet Me at the Christmas Train Parade (holiday movie featuring Ryan Northcott, Emma Johnson, Maureen Rooney, Sue Huff, Michelle Todd, and Will Brisbin; directed by Dylan Pearce; written by Nathan Usher; To stave off a developer that will destroy their charming town square, a single mom enlists the help of nearby villages to revive a Christmas tree-lighting tradition; filmed in Edmonton, Alberta; aired in Canada in 2023) - TBA

Creating Christmas (holiday movie starring Greer Grammer, Jason Cermak and Briana Buckmaster; directed by Jason James; A children’s book author enlists an artistic teacher to help him out of a creative rut at Christmas; filmed in Vancouver, B.C.; aired on Paramount+ UK in 2023) - TBA

Royally Yours, This Christmas (holiday movie starring Cindy Sampson, Steve Byers, Holly De Barros, Bukola Ayoka, Michael S. Morrone and Darrin Baker; directed by Don McBrearty; written by Jessica L. Randall; A single mom is mistaken for a wealthy do-gooder and finds herself romanced by a royal; filmed in Toronto; aired on Paramount+ UK in 2023) - TBA

A Perfect Christmas Carol (holiday movie starring Stephanie Bennett and Preston Vanderslice; directed by Wendy Ord; A chef heads home for the holidays with her boyfriend, only to battle with his mother for his love; filmed in Kelowna, B.C.; aired on Binge in Australia in 2023) - TBA

Sincerely Truly Christmas (holiday movie starring Jake Epstein, Paula Brancati, Richard Waugh and  Tom Hearn; directed by Sean Cisterna; written by Matthew Thaler; Holiday magic gives an event planner the ability to hear what everyone else wants for Christmas; filmed in Toronto; aired on Binge in Australia in 2023) - TBA

Me and Mr. Christmas (holiday movie starring Sara Garcia, Blair Penner, Michael Lazarovitch and Jocelyn Chugg; directed by Dylan Pearce; written by Jenny M Krick; A woman looks to boost her new PR firm by fielding a winning contestant in a holiday bachelor contest; filmed in Edmonton, Alberta; aired on STAN in Australia in 2023) - TBA

The Heiress of Christmas (holiday movie starring David Pinard, Katerina Maria Vitkoff and Alys Crocker; directed by Meeshelle Neal; An heiress is forced to work in her family’s department store for the holidays; filmed in Toronto; aired on TF1 in France and Binge in Australia in 2023) - TBA (Trailer)

Christmas on the Alpaca Farm (holiday movie starring Kirsten Comerford, Matt Wells and Diana Diaz; directed by Michael Kennedy; A Christmas sweater designer clashes with a local alpaca farmer; filmed in Hamilton, Ont.; aired on TV24 and Channel 5 in the UK in 2023) - TBA

Christmas at Carbell Family Farm (holiday movie starring Tamara Almeida and Cody Ray Thompson; A developer has designs on a Christmas tree and must track down a long list of owners to secure the site) - TBA

Holiday for Hire (holiday movie starring Andrew Rogers, Casey Waller, Christie Leverette, Michael Deni and Mark Valeriano; directed by Jared Cohn; written by Julia Terranova; When her boyfriend dumps her just before Christmas, a desperate woman hires an actor to play him for her family; filmed in Simi Valley, Calif.) - TBA

Holly Jolly Christmas (a.k.a. Untitled Christmas Movie Project; holiday movie starring Allison Bailey, Rebecca De Mornay, Chris Elliott, Jordan Doww, Teo Rapp-Olsson, Pete Ploszek, Neal Davidson; directed by Christine Luby; When siblings come home for the holidays, they are shocked to learn their parents have sold the family home and plan to move overseas; set and filmed in Danbury and New Haven, Connecticut) - TBA

Christmas Telethon (holiday comedy starring Patrick Warburton, Matt Nease and Leslie Talley; directed by Doug Henderson; written by Henderson, B. Harrison Smith and Nease; Local anchors try to save their struggling TV station with a telethon that goes terribly wrong; filmed in Millersville, Pa.) - TBA

Cape Holly Christmas (holiday movie starring Sebastian Stewart, Anna Marie Dobbins, Brian Austin Green, Celeste Desjardins, Barbara Mitchell, Rae Farrer, Neil Enock, and Laura Yenga; directed by John Bradshaw;  written by Erica McKenzie and Mark Mungo; A woman hopes to win a baking contest to save her home and small-town bakery, but falls for a guy who turns out to be related to the bank trying to foreclose on both;  filmed in Leduc, Alberta, Canada) - TBA

S’up, Xmas! (a.k.a. Jae, Natal!; Brazilian animated holiday movie directed by Camila Padilha; A princess tries to introduce a traditional Christmas to her island home, only to see them twist it into a unique tropical holiday festival) - TBA

A Christmas Heart (faith-based holiday movie starring Kevin Sorbo and Sarah Reeves; written and directed by Bill McAdams, Jr; A widowed firefighter gets a DUI and is assigned community service where he meets someone who helps him recover from tragedy; filmed in Granbury, Texas ) - TBA

Operation Nutcracker (holiday movie starring Ashley Newbrough and Christopher Russell; An event planner and wayward son have to work together to find a missing nutcracker in time for a wealthy family's high profile charity auction; filmed in Ontario) - TBA

Jingle Bell Heist (holiday movie starring Olivia Holt, Connor Swindells, Peter Serafinowicz and Lucy Punch; directed by Michael Fimognari; written by Abby McDonald; Two thieves casing the same Christmas Eve job, team up and fall for each other; announced in 2023; filmed in the UK) - TBA

Mr. Christmas (holiday movie starring Tom McLaren, Charlie Schlatter, Casey Burke, Lynda Day George and Nicholle Tom; A man hatches a Christmas movie-inspired to win back his estranged family.) - TBA

The Christmas Letter (holiday movie starring Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid and Angus Benfield; directed by Tori Hunter; written by Michael Cunningham; Spurred on by a wealthy friend’s annual Christmas letter, a man makes it his mission to perfect his life before the next holiday; filmed in Utica, New York) - TBA (Facebook)

[jyuriadunkel]

🔷 Classic Blue Jyuu 🔷

One of my anual Pantone illustrations, this one for the Color of the Year 2020.

Those were my 3 hair looks for 2019 BTW xDDD

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Jon1st 在過去��十年裡一直在突破技術 DJ 的界限

Jon1st 出生於倫敦、居住在 Leicester 的 Jon1st 在過去的十年裡一直在突破技術 DJ 的界限，將自己打造成一個活躍的俱樂部 DJ、World champion turntablist、具有前瞻性思維的製作人，以及在 Alternative bass music 領域創作的現場表演者。

在 2013 年 DMC 世界在線錦標賽中獲得廣受讚譽的突破性勝利後，Jon1st 迅速建立了“DJ 的 DJ”的國際聲譽，不僅證明了自己是世界上最多元化的 Turntablist，而且還是一位非常受歡迎的現場表演者，擅長探索各流派之間的對話，他通過精確、熟練的混合和精緻的技巧來表達，不斷打破新音樂並融合各種原素，他在歐洲、北美和亞洲制定了自己繁忙的 DJ 時間表，在 Ivy Lab 的 20/20LDN 活動中擔任駐場嘉賓，並定期出現在 Ninja Tune 的 Solid Steel、Boiler Room 、Keep Hush、Rinse FM、DJ Mag、NTS、SWU FM、他自己的 Fly High Society 的 Mix podcasts 系列以及最近的一系列 Audio Visual minimixes。

作為製作人，他最近發布了關於 Defrostatica、Slow Roast 和 Worst Behavior 的項目，以及一連串的合作項目，包括與 Shield、DJ Craze、Arcane、Fixate、EAN、BSN Posse、DJ Madd、Tehbis、GOALS、Benny Roach、Stick In The Wheel，他與 Shield 的合作也發展成為一個持續的現場表演項目，他們二人組成現場表演，而且他們的工作室項目也獲得了一致好評，他們於 2019 年和 2020 年初在北美和歐洲進行了廣泛巡演，並與傳奇人物 DJ Craze 和 與 Pioneer DJ 密切合作，推出他們的 Toraiz 音樂製作設備系列。

Jon1st 專注於將他的 Turntablist 背景融入不同的情況，這也促成了一系列不同的伙伴關係和合作。 除了現場表演自己的作品外，他還利用 Turntablist 的技能組合表演了 Ivy Lab、Alix Perez、Om Unit、Sam Binga、Halogenix、Moresounds、Kabuki、NameBrandSound 和 DJ Vadim 等家喻戶曉的官方混音。 以及為 JD Reid、Mosca 和 Silent Dust & Kaelin Ellis 的專輯錄製，他們是 Beardyman 的即興樂隊的成員，並與 Birmingham’s Royal Conservatoire orchestra 合作。 他還與 Pioneer DJ 設備品牌和 Serato 合作過多個項目，在全球行業活動中測試、諮詢和展示現在行業標準產品，如 DJM S9、DJM S11 和 PLX-1000。

Jon1st 最近的專案包括和 Arcane 合作的 Bloodstone EP、和 Shield 合作的 Focus EP、Remote Research 現場混音帶，一個突出的 Keep Hush Set、和 Fixate 合作的 'Step Up' 和 Defrostatica 的 Hybrid Hooks Compilation 上的 'Pantone Suplex'、Worst Behavior Vol.3 上的 'Rose Point'、和 BSN Posse 合作的 'Burnin Shoes' 、更成為 Pioneer DJ “DJM-S11” performance mixer 的全球宣傳代表人物，以及創作一系列的視聽混音等等。太過豐富了。

最近得到的 DJ 支持有 Addison Groove、Sherelle、Mary Anne Hobbs、Noisia、DJ Craze、Machinedrum、Sicaria Sound、Ivy Lab、Gilles Peterson、Ternion Sound、Fixate、Om Unit、Nikki Nair、Sam Binga、Tipper、Eprom、Claude VonStroke 等知名 DJ。

Information : http://jon1st.co.uk/biography

Picture :

https://soundcloud.com/jon1st

https://news.djcity.com/watch-inside-turntablists-puts-a-spotlight-on-jon1st/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKGgktOL_M

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so.

we braved it through the heat wave out here and we saw the Barbie movie on early release day because of the matinee (and on my dime because i inexplicably have money).

first things first. i admit it, i’m going to be biased because neither of us had any desire to see it; in fact, i was turned off from it almost immediately just from the marketing alone. don’t get me wrong, either, there have been girlish things in the past that i do like (and i’m the least girly girl i know), but as i said, it reminded me of that episode of portlandia where the feminist bookstore gets bought out and basically turns it into one big corporate joke slathered in pink paint. that’s exactly what this movie reminded me of, except it’s executed in real life.

i’m just saying this now because i've been carefully avoiding the movie tags the last week, with people acting like heaven and earth had to be moved in order for the barbie movie to be made while utterly slating oppenheimer (and acting like the mission impossible movie doesn’t exist, like wtf). in fact, this is why i actually kept my distance from social channels because i just knew it was going to be bad. bad vibes in the color of pantone 219.

but i left my bias at the door and i went into the theater with an open mind. you never know. i could be wrong and everyone who’s been giving it glowing reviews have been sincere this whole time…

first off, the elephant in the room. the soundtrack.

there are actually a couple of bangers on this, like the fifty fifty song and the dua lipa one; the song from ice spice was a lot better than i thought it would be, like that actually surprised me. i like her, man, she’s cool. but for the most part, this soundtrack just swings and misses. shit, the bob’s burgers soundtrack stuck out more to me and that was done solely by everyone on the cast.

i have no idea why you would have royal pain in the ass billie eilish on the soundtrack other than to play favorites and inflate her already-planet sized ego even more because heaven for-fucking-bid anyone has a negative opinion of her, and- you know, now that i write this out, it does make sense to have her on it. this movie in a way is like her: painfully overhyped to the point that thinking about who’s hyping it makes you feel sick after a while and what substance there is you wish for more of. and, no, i fucking hated that song: there’s a reason why i dropped my oppenheimer drawings at the same time as when she dropped that one, all the way down to the minute, because i just know it’s beginning of the end for her. 

yes, i don’t like her anymore but… i kind of feel bad for her, though. started out as this little teen girl with the unusual hair and the tomboyish wardrobe who sang these dark songs that i found solace in back in 2019, and look at her now. she’s being sexualized like the dickens (and apparently when she didn’t want that, either? there’s an interview from 2016 where she explicitly says that she wants us to focus on her music and not her. yeah, she was like 14/15 at the time but you could still carry that narrative as you become an adult and ease into it) and her ego has gotten so big the last couple of years that she’s utterly insufferable now. she’s a loser, you guys.  ”but she’s so sincere! so honest!” no, she’s not???? she has quite literally changed her narrative so many times the last seven years, i have no clue if she’s telling the truth or not. really, ask anyone who’s followed her since 2015. REAL survivors tell their story and they stick to it.

i’m tired of her name, i’m tired of seeing her, i’m tired of people left and right kissing her ass when there really is no good viable reason to… I’M JUST TIRED OF HER! and this movie killed it, this movie was the last straw for me. i wish she would just go away already. just… let it die. let the billie eilish mania die already.

and i guess wolf van halen and slash did some solo work on the soundtrack but they weren’t credited for some reason? i recognized them immediately, and i seriously wanted more of them.

it’s like when you have a pizza and the whole thing is covered in pineapple save for this one little sliver. the rest of it is practically inedible but you look at that one piece and think, “eh, it was alright just to spite itself.”

the set design gave me the same feeling as illumination’s movies - they make the despicable me and minions movies; their movies are notoriously cheap to make because they reuse the same assets over and over again. because of this constant reuse, their movies become boring and bland after a while. add to this, when you write the movie around a few different locations, and the color scheme barely changes to boot, you get the same effect. this is not a bash on the color pink, by the way, so save your fucking comments, but to see the color pink (often fused with neon colors, too) in every corner, every crevice, every ass crack, and every single inch of screen time that isn’t the real world… it got so tiresome after just a short time. in fact, that was a big complaint with me when the commercials for it started to roll in was “that color scheme is painful to look at.” it wears on your nerves really quick, too, especially if you’re obsessed with balance like i am. it’s like, my god, can we at least have some darker tones in here to level the playing field? this is complete sensory overload. you understand the intent completely, but it’s so… it’s too much. it becomes harsh and even suffocating after the first twenty or so minutes. we left after the first… i don’t know, 50 minutes? because i had a splitting headache (it went away almost immediately, too, oddly enough). the only good part of the set was the san jacinto mountains in the background, i could tell that was the real deal. but that was pretty much it (again, the pineapple on pizza analogy).

helen mirren as the narrator felt out of place, imo. narrators have to work in a very specific context and even then, like what we’ve seen with the minions movies, it can be abused and used as a crutch. i don’t know why you would need someone to point out this shit when you could see it for yourself. it’s called “motion pictures” for a reason, and there’s a way to work in exposition without it feeling like a cannonball to the face.

there was one review from about a week ago - i’ll never forget it either mainly because i had to look it up and i was met with the login box from twitter - but it said the story is the weak part and... yes. yes, it is. first off, i went to look up the synopsis and the first thing that ran through my mind was “wreck-it ralph”, and also the lego movie. barbie and ken leave barbieland for the human world in a similar way that ralph and vanellope trekked through different video game worlds, or how the gang in the lego movie travelled through different lego settings. except, instead of being this colorful fun delicious adventure where everyone grows and changes through actions and the two leads learn to love each other and value each other by the end, they come back for an existential crisis and- i’m sorry, it doesn’t work. it felt really… the only word that comes to mind is “clunky”. it felt very clunky and cumbersome, like it’s trying to be everything and say everything all at once. i mean, the story is the backbone, the heart and soul of a movie, and when it’s barely there, or sputters out in the second act and the whole thing actually lives and dies on the work of fucking speeches (that i already saw like word for word in tumblr posts about 9-10 years ago) rather than adventures, it feels pointless. i want to watch a story unfold. tell me a tall tale. show me something new.

and my nickname for it “the big pink brick” was earned. it felt like this giant brick kept hitting me over the head with its messages and it got uncomfortable and not in the way that great art makes you uncomfortable: no, i mean it was unpleasant. misandrist, too. yes, this movie is misandry in every sense of the word. there’s smashing the patriarchy and then there’s treating men as if they’re useless meat sacks. maybe i’m just someone who likes to be entertained and not preached to when she goes to the movies: it’s why i could never get into rom-coms (and my mom is the same way, too) because… what’s entertaining about this? about a story you’ve seen a million times already just drowned in pink paint and with tropes from 10-year-old (GREAT) animated movies thrown in to make it a little more interesting? plus, it’s why i find movies that attempt to be philosophical a rather mixed bag of sorts.

you can be dark and intellectual. you can be serious. you can be a feminist and stand up to the patriarchy and not be a complete asshole to men and make our gender look bad in the process. zootopia did this back in 2016, so why not carry the trend onwards? you can be all those things and still have it be genuinely fun and surreal and cartoonish. don bluth and all the cartoons from the 90s and the 2000s mastered that, why can’t other directors do it? it felt very lopsided towards barbie and ken. kind of the point, yes, but... i wanted to know more about these other people, though, like what’s going on with them. you can’t have two characters exist in a vacuum when it obviously isn’t. 

there are also parts where - i’m gonna get shit for this, too, so i’m bracing myself - it reminded me of the emoji movie.  “do you guys ever think about dying?” that sounds like a rejected line from the emoji movie and i can’t be the only one who thinks this, either. really, i hate to be “that person” but i kind of knew how it was going to play out just by watching the trailer. it’s a very loud movie, too, no one talks in a normal voice. it often felt like i was being yelled at. 

and i really didn’t find any of it funny: i think i chuckled all of twice, but never “laugh out loud” like i do when i watch the holy grail or any of mel brooks’ movies.

there’s genuinely nothing sadder than comedy that fails to make you laugh.

”it’s supposed to be ham-fisted!” listen, if someone has to say this, that’s a bad sign. that’s a sign of literacy having fallen right off a cliff. it’s like when i saw nope last summer and people were bitching about how it’s “hard to follow” and the arc with the monkey felt unnecessary (when it absolutely was!)

it’s a sign of people wanting movies literally to be nothing more than just a bunch of colors fused with lines that sounded like they came out of 2013-2014 tumblr written at 1 in the morning filtered through volume settings meant for dodger stadium.

rather than be challenged or introduced to something new, you, the audience this movie was made for as well as tumblr in 2023, just want your asses kissed, so you ironically get this echo chamber thing going and true intellect goes right out the window.  “tumblr doesn’t have an echo chamber effect going, though” IT MOST CERTAINLY DOES! how many people on here feel like they’re just yelling into a void, like no one cares what they have to say? far too many, myself being one of them! you people don’t want anything to nudge you out of your comfort zone and instead cater to your every whim, and it’s so insulting.

everyone on the cast had this look in their eyes like they were just dying inside, and i have no clue if that was intentional, either. but there were times i could tell margot was really trying her best, but she looked like she was phoning it in (weird to think amy schumer was considered for the role, too). even dua lipa looked miserable. will ferrell of all people looked miserable, too, which was shocking to me.

really, the only person who seemed to be having a good time with it all was ryan gosling. i’m not even a fan of the guy, but just like with the last two tom cruise movies, i have to hand it to him. he was actually great. he was fun to watch. did i think it was “oscar-worthy” like what everyone on the internet says? not really—the internet is rather hit and miss in terms of taste, so of course i took it with a grain of salt. but i give him my kudos, though.

but after the big pink brick, you yearn for true intellectualism again, and not in the slathered in pink shoved-right-in-your-face-without-any-rhyme-or-reason-other-than-because-women type fashion, because that really isn’t. another interesting thing to note? oppenheimer is three hours, (no way we could do the double header, too hot out and my mom wants to treat me to that instead) but i bet you money you won’t even notice it. you’re just so engrossed in the story of the man and how the bomb came to be that you genuinely don’t even think about the time. barbie is… what, an hour and a half? hour-forty? i kept checking my watch every few minutes and we didn’t even make it to the end. how do you make 90-100 minutes feel like 90-100 hours, i’ll never know. i was thinking this when threads was launched, “how the fuck can you people here on tumblr just turn up your noses at this when you aren’t even going to give it a chance, which oh, by the way, is the very definition of prejudice?”: the barbie movie is the best example of what’s known as “brainrot”. bright obnoxious unflattering colors, feminism so warped that even despite being from women it feels like everyone’s just cheering on the winner and bashing all the kens of the world, and morals that incessantly hit you over the head and you get nothing out of it and you learn nothing and the hype is really just that: hype. tumblr in the 2020s deserves this movie, and it serves all of us right for letting it happen. 

i saw the reviews on rotten tomatoes last night, and the positive ones all feel ai-generated, no doubt about that. the negative ones meanwhile, felt more human and confirmed my suspicions about it. in fact, i saw a couple of female critics say that there’s an air of defensiveness to it and… yeah, there is.

it’s the exact same vibe i get from fanfic communities now: this whole thing of “if you got nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all” said in the most belligerent tone ever and god damn it, NO ONE WANTS THAT. NO ONE likes that. you hear about women complaining about men being aggressive: take this from a woman, it works the other way, too.  i avoid so many things now not because i DoN’t HaVe AnYtHiNg NiCe To SaY, but because it’s unpleasant. someone who’s lgtbq was turned off by barbie like how she’s turned off by fic communities and most of the internet because it all comes off as mean-spirited. you see the intent but it’s completely lost in translation and it winds up not feeling like a movie. oppenheimer, for all its dead weight heavier than uranium, is by far a more pleasant experience and the manhattan project was primarily men (to all of you bitching about that).

i saw something earlier before we left saying, “men who refuse to see the barbie movie are trash.”

…you know.  as a woman.  i resent the fact that i had to see that sentiment.  because, ahem. after women fought for decades, how we were like “hands off our bodies” and “don’t touch us unless we say so”, there’s this narrative here that basically covertly tells men what to do. if you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know i hate hypocrisy. and forcing men to see this fucking movie lest they get labeled as misogynistic or homophobic-  you hypocrites. really, if you condone that… don’t you DARE call yourself a feminist 

EVER AGAIN.

barbie is not about female empowerment, and the discourse surrounding it is not about misogyny. the issue is every single one of you taking it way too seriously. if it was truly a fun movie, à la the lego movie or wreck-it ralph, i guarantee i probably would have loved it even with the hideous color scheme and lame soundtrack. but it’s not. it’s not fun at all. it’s basing a movie off a toy meant for little girls that was studied and recorded as anti-feminist (given the rampant body image issues we have, for starters) and backtracking on itself for decades in hopes to fix itself, and every single one of you screamed “FEMINIST!!!” because the echo chamber caught up to you.

feel free to complain in the comments, i got shit to do✌🏻