Richard Donner’s Scrooged is an unassailable holiday classic. If you’re channel surfing on Christmas Eve, you’re all but guaranteed to run into this film at some point. While versions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol are a dime a dozen at Christmas time, Scrooged is different. A spoof of the classic tale that swaps Victorian-era London for a 1980s Yuppie-filled NYC, Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross, the meanest TV exec in the business. When not producing fare like “The Night the Reindeer Died” (with Lee Majors – the Six Million Dollar Man!), he torments his employees, including Alfie Woodard as his Bob Cratchit stand-in, Grace Cooley and Bobcat Goldthwait’s Elliot Loudermilk. But, of course, Cross wasn’t always a miser, with Karen Allen’s Claire Philips reminding him of the gentle guy he used to be.
As per the original tale, on Christmas Eve’s...
As per the original tale, on Christmas Eve’s...
- 12/15/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
In the 1988 Christmas comedy "Scrooged," Bill Murray plays Frank Cross, a mean-spirited TV executive who oversees a live televised adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1983 novella "A Christmas Carol." The irony is that "Scrooged" is based off Dickens' story and Cross is a modern version of the misanthropic Ebenezer Scrooge. Echoing the original work, before the show, Cross is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future who each show him the error of his ways. Carol Kane plays the Ghost of Christmas Present, who visits Frank as a fairy and does an awkward, off balance ballerina dance. And as the kids today say, the struggle was real.
Kane, who had never done ballet, said in a 2018 interview with Vulture that she trained for weeks with an instructor for the scene. Even though she knew a professional ballerina had been hired to come in as her stunt double, she still...
Kane, who had never done ballet, said in a 2018 interview with Vulture that she trained for weeks with an instructor for the scene. Even though she knew a professional ballerina had been hired to come in as her stunt double, she still...
- 11/27/2022
- by J. Gabriel Ware
- Slash Film
The 1988 Christmas fantasy film "Scrooged" takes us on a wild and dark ride with Frank Cross, a mean-spirited, anti-Christmas TV executive who oversees a live production of -- guess what? -- "A Christmas Carol," the classic Charles Dickens novella that the movie itself is based on. "Scrooged" itself is, in some ways, one of those overlooked holiday movies. If one were to ask its star, Bill Murray, why that is, he might single out the way the movie was shot as the reason it hasn't caught on with a larger audience.
A real-life Scrooge, Frank (Murray) loudly berates his subordinates -- and when I say loudly, I mean loudly. He forces a single mother (who has to run her mute son to the doctor) to work overtime, fires a guy who dares to critique his random and absurdly violent commercial that has absolutely nothing to do with "A Christmas Carol,...
A real-life Scrooge, Frank (Murray) loudly berates his subordinates -- and when I say loudly, I mean loudly. He forces a single mother (who has to run her mute son to the doctor) to work overtime, fires a guy who dares to critique his random and absurdly violent commercial that has absolutely nothing to do with "A Christmas Carol,...
- 11/27/2022
- by J. Gabriel Ware
- Slash Film
Richard Donner's 1988 film "Scrooged" was a modern rendition of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," updated for the yuppie set. The Reagan generation's Ebenezer Scrooge was Frank Cross (Bill Murray), a vain, bitter, ratings-hungry TV executive who believes in sensationalism over quality; he wants to air a Christmas special called "The Night the Reindeer Died" with Lee Majors in an action hero role. Gentleness and tenderness are not in his vocabulary, and he happily fires employees on Christmas Eve. Unlike Scrooge, however, Cross is not a grump or a curmudgeon. Frank is a flip, winking, narcissist who reacts to the world with annoyed sarcasm rather than with a dismissive "Humbug!"
Other updates to Dickens included a Ghost of Christmas Past that was a cigar-smoking cab driver, and a Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) who punches Frank repeatedly in the face. The Bob Cratchit character from the original story was bifurcated into two characters.
Other updates to Dickens included a Ghost of Christmas Past that was a cigar-smoking cab driver, and a Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) who punches Frank repeatedly in the face. The Bob Cratchit character from the original story was bifurcated into two characters.
- 11/25/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Oh hey, Merry Christmas! I feel comfortable saying that since every store has had decorations up since the beginning of October. Today we have a new trailer for the upcoming Apple Original Film "Spirited" starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, and Octavia Spencer. The latest look at the remake (sort of) of the Christmas classic "A Christmas Carol" was teased on Twitter yesterday by Reynolds, Ferrell and a very special guest, and it's pretty great.
The rumors stop here. Will and I did Not lip sync our dancing in Spirited. Tomorrow’s trailer will settle it. pic.twitter.com/j9O1SCEH7f
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) November 1, 2022
Though it's certainly not the same story, the first trailer for the musical movie did give a nod to one of the best takes on "A Christmas Carol," which is Bill Murray's "Scrooged" with the dancing Christmas show scene. This time around, however,...
The rumors stop here. Will and I did Not lip sync our dancing in Spirited. Tomorrow’s trailer will settle it. pic.twitter.com/j9O1SCEH7f
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) November 1, 2022
Though it's certainly not the same story, the first trailer for the musical movie did give a nod to one of the best takes on "A Christmas Carol," which is Bill Murray's "Scrooged" with the dancing Christmas show scene. This time around, however,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
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