Do you know that the Hallmark movie season actually starts in January.
And in 2023 there were three new installments of the Wedding Veil trilogy on Hallmark Channel and an all-new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries franchise, Family History Mysteries: Buried Past.
The movies are available live and on demand on Peacock. The Christmas movies started streaming November 9th and continue being released throughout November.
And in case you need some prompting: Hallmark's movies are perfect for "snuggling up with loved ones" and "always tug on the heartstrings."
Mystery on Mistletoe Lane New to town, Heidi Wicks and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home. Local handyman and historian David helps along the way, finding his own surprising connection.
Everything Christmas Lori Jo's love for Christmas takes her on a road trip to Yuletide Springs, where Christmas is celebrated year-round, to participate in a longstanding town tradition to honor her late grandmother.
Christmas Island When a snowstorm diverts Kate's first private flight en route to Switzerland to Christmas Island, she must team up with an air traffic controller to secure her dream job as the family's pilot.
There seem to be many more...lots to keep one busy between now and Christmas, and even past Christmas. The coverage is HERE.
There is even one listed named A Biltmore Christmas. It follows Lucy as she's hired to write the script for a remake of a holiday movie. She joins a tour of the grounds and when she knows an hourglass over, she find herself transported back in time to 1946.
Here's a wreath for the Hallmark moment - Cozy Sweater Weather is its name. It is followed by Single Red Winter Magnolia. They both sound like Hallmark Romance wreaths. What do you think?
The idea of the summer blockbuster started in June 1975 and the movie was Jaws. Blockbuster means a feature film that is highly popular and financially successful. It is aimed at mass markets, and has associated merchandising. The term began to appear in the early 1940s where aerial bombs were capable of destroying a whole block of buildings. It was applied to movies in May 1943, when advertisements used the word.
It was Jaws that changed things. Jaws was perceived as a new cultural phenomenon: a fast-paced, exciting entertainment, with 'buzz'. Star Wars came next with the same sort of appeal, and had a run of more than a year. This started a race for the summer blockbuster and it has continued.
Voted the number 1 blockbuster year is 1984 - Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Karate Kid, Gremlins, The Neverending Story, Once Upon a Time in America, Purple Rain, Red Dawn, Revenge of the Nerds, Top Secret, Bachelor Party, The Natural were the movies.
The second place summer is 1989 with Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, When Harry Met Sally, Dead Poets' Society, Do the Right Thing, The Abyss, Ghostbusters II, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Lethal Weapon 2, License to Kill, Parenthood, Uncle Buck, and Road House.
The third place summer is 1985 with Back to the Future, The Goonies, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Teen Wolf, Weird Science, National Lampoon's European Vacation, The Black Cauldron, Cocoon, Fletch, Fright Night, and St. Elmo's Fire.
Is there a lot in store for this year's summer blockbuster season? We're half-way through the summer and the promotions continue to take precedence over the reviews in our google retrievals. That might be called the 'blockbuster effect.'
