Every year, dozens of movies come out at Christmastime that nobody talks about. People watch them, people love them, but they rarely get reviewed and don’t have many tie-in interviews with the cast and crew. These are the Hallmark Christmas movies, and they are lighthearted fantasies that promote romance and family values and, not for nothing, keep a lot of hardworking entertainers and filmmakers employed all year ’round.
We’ve been dedicating a segment every week to these Hallmark Christmas movies on The B-Movies Podcast this year, and now we are ecstatic to present to you an exclusive interview with filmmaker Jim Fall, whose film A Holiday Engagement (now available on Netflix) is a perennial favorite on The Hallmark Channel. In this candid, extended interview he explains how this strange corner of Hollywood works, how to put together a hit screenplay for Hallmark Christmas movies, and behind the scenes story of wonder and woe.
Why did Judd Nelson go insane on Jim Fall’s set? You’ll find out in The B-Movies Podcast | How Hallmark Christmas Movies Get Made! Follow the show at @BMoviesPodcast, email us at BMoviesPodcast@gmail.com with your questions and suggestions, and subscribe on iTunes for more exclusive movie news, reviews, interviews, commentary tracks and more!
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William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and watch him on the weekly YouTube series Most Craved and What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
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