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The Santa Clause is a 1994 Christmas comedy movie starring Tim Allen, presented by Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, and produced by Outlaw Productions. It was notably the first movie collaboration between Allen and director Josh Pasquin, who had previously worked together on the TV series Home Improvement. It grossed over $144 million in the United States and over $189 million worldwide. The movie was followed by two sequels - The Santa Clause 2 in 2002, and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause in 2006 - and a Disney+ mini-series following the events of the films, titled The Santa Clauses, in 2022. Scott Calvin is a divorced father and advertising executive with a young son, Charlie. On Christmas Eve, Charlie comes over to spend the night with him before going back to his mother and stepfather's house for Christmas Day. That night, they are suddenly awakened by a clatter on the roof. Going outside to investigate, Scott sees someone up on his roof and yells at the trespasser, which causes him to lose his balance and fall off. He appears to be Santa Claus. The man magically disappears, but his suit remains. They find a business card in a pocket stating that if something should happen to him, someone should put on the suit, and the reindeer will know what to do. They find his sleigh and eight reindeer perched on the roof. Scott puts the suit on and begins delivering toys from house to house. Their final stop is the North Pole. Bernard the Head Elf shows him a tiny inscription on the card which says that, upon the death of the previous occupant, whoever wears the suit assumes the identity of Santa Claus and all the responsibilities and duties that go with it. This is the "Santa Clause", as stated by him: "You put on the suit, you're the big guy." (more)

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• In the 2025 KidScreen Awards, Magic Light's Tabby McTat has been nominated for Best Holiday or Special Episode in the Preschool category. And in the Kids category, Merry Little Batman has been nominated for Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie, while The Loud House episode "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas" and The Santa Clauses' second season chapter "Miracle on Dead Creek Road" have been nominated for Best Holiday or Special Episode.
• As part of the year-long celebration of SpongeBob SquarePants' 25th anniversary, the show's cast will be taking part in the Ed Asner Family Center's fourth annual table read of It's a Wonderful Life, live on-stage on December 14th at the Garry Marshall Theatre and available for streaming on TrillerTV.
• Great American Family is hosting the first-ever Great American Family Christmas Festival, featuring holiday movie premieres, ice-skating, celebrity meet-and-greets, a Santa’s Crafting Village, and live entertainment, in the Park at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York from November 20th to January 5th.
• Veteran musician Andy Paley, who formed the Paley Brothers with his brother Jonathan and composed music for SpongeBob SquarePants (including co-writing the song "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)"), died at the age of 72 on November 20th.
• Pamela Hayden, who has been voicing Milhouse Van Houten, Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, and other characters on The Simpsons since its premiere back in 1989, announced her retirement on November 20th. We at the Christmas Specials Wiki wish her well!
• Voice director/actor Dan Hennessey died at the age of 82. Best known for voicing Brave Heart Lion from the Care Bears franchise (including its Christmas movie), his credits also included the title character's father in Little Bear, Chief Quimby and various M.A.D. agents in the first season of Inspector Gadget, and Roy "Bully" Koopa in the Super Mario Bros. cartoons (including their second Christmas episode).
• As part of a new multi-year licensing deal (no doubt helped by Universal Studios having acquired Classic Media in 2016), Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer will be returning to its original broadcast network, NBC, starting this year, after over five decades of airing on CBS. Frosty the Snowman will also be joining Rudolph on NBC, thus ending its 54-year run on CBS.
• Connecticut has opened the Connecticut Christmas Movie Trail, a tourist trail highlighting the filming locations of the many Christmas-themed movies for the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, and Netflix that have been filmed in the Nutmeg State.
• Actor Ken Page, who portrayed Dwight in The Kid Who Loved Christmas and voiced Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, died at the age of 70 on September 30th.
• Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who portrayed Jefferson Jones in the Christmas in Connecticut remake and voiced the Old Donkey in The Star, died at the age 88 on September 28th.
• Award-winning actress Maggie Smith, who played Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies, Violet Crawley on Downton Abbey, and Aunt Ruth in A Boy Called Christmas, died at the age of 89 on September 27th.
• James Earl Jones died at the age of 93 on September 9th. Best known for voicing Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise (including its infamous holiday special) and Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King, he also voiced Santa Claus himself in the Recess episode "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave".
• Peter Renaday, who voiced Ebenezer Scrooge in The Real Ghostbusters episode "Xmas Marks the Spot", the Forever Tree in Piney the Lonesome Pine, and Splinter in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon (a role he reprised for the Turtles' "Happy Honda Days" commercial in 2018), died on September 8th at the age of 89.
• In commemoration of its 70th anniversary, White Christmas will be re-released in select AMC Theaters on December 15th.
• In an attempt to entice more subscriptions to Disney+, the Walt Disney Company shut down the DisneyNOW, ABC, Freeform, and FXNow apps on September 23rd. Similarly, Warner Bros. Discovery shut down the Boomerang app on September 30th and moved its content to the Max streaming service.
• In the 4th Annual Astra TV Awards, FX's The Bear episode "Fishes" has been nominated for six awards, including Best Writing and Directing in a Streaming Comedy, and Best Guest Stars in a Comedy (actors Bob Odenkirk and Jon Bernthal, and actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Sarah Paulson); Saturday Night Live's "Kate McKinnon" broadcast has been nominated for the show's new category, Best Host; and Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas has been nominated for Best Variety Special.

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