"her that indeed there is a Santa: ""He lives, and he lives forever."" Francis Pharcellus Church was the real-life editor and is played by Charles Bronson in the film. ""The Polar Express"" (2004), based on the children's book of the same name, also deals with issues and questions of belief as a magical train conducted by Tom Hanks transports a doubting boy to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus. Some less-than-serious films feature Santa Claus as a superhero-type figure, such as the 1959 film titled ""Santa Claus"" produced in Mexico with José Elías Moreno as Santa Claus. In this"
"and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using the live action performance capture technique. The film stars Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, Michael Jeter, Eddie Deezen and Tom Hanks. The film was first released in both conventional and IMAX 3D theaters November 10, 2004 and grossed $307 million worldwide. The Polar Express The Polar Express is a children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1985. The book is now widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children. It was praised for its detailed illustrations"
"The Polar Express (film) The Polar Express is a 2004 American 3D computer-animated film based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, who also served as one of the executive producers on the film. Directed, co-written and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using live action motion capture animation. The film stars Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen, with Tom Hanks in six distinct roles. The film also included a performance by Tinashe at age 9, who later gained exposure as a pop singer in the 2010s,"
"this time, the Ebenezer Scrooge puppet who is set as the main antagonist of the game, attempts to prevent the children from believing in Santa Claus by stealing their tickets and trying to stop the children from making it to the North Pole. The Polar Express (film) The Polar Express is a 2004 American 3D computer-animated film based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, who also served as one of the executive producers on the film. Directed, co-written and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using live action motion"
"teleports himself in and out by mirror, but the only way the mirror works is by using North Pole snow. Buck Seger is a hunter who works at the zoo and has a crush on Sandy. He sees Nick as a rival and researches that Buddy is from the North Pole. He plans to sell Buddy. Other cast: The sequel, """", was released on December 14, 2008 as part of ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas. The main cast from the first film reprise their roles in the sequel. Snow (2004 film) Snow is an American Christmas-themed film starring Tom"
"The Santa Clause (film series) The Santa Clause (also known as The Santa Clause Trilogy) is a series of comedy films starring Tim Allen. The film series began with ""The Santa Clause"" (1994). It was followed by ""The Santa Clause 2"" (2002) and """" (2006). The series experienced a diminishing critical reception with each subsequent film. Divorced dad Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) has custody of his son Charlie (Eric Lloyd) on Christmas Eve. After he accidentally causes the death of a man in a Santa suit, they are magically transported to the North Pole, where an elf explains that Scott"
"worldwide on a $33 million budget. It inspired the 2010 Broadway musical ""Elf: The Musical"" and NBC's 2014 stop-motion animated television special """". Although it was fairly well received when released, its reception has warmed over time and is now regarded strongly to be one of the greatest Christmas films ever made, and for being perhaps Ferrell's most iconic and beloved film role. At the North Pole, Papa Elf recounts how a baby boy crawled into Santa Claus's sack at an orphanage one Christmas Eve and was unwittingly transported back to the North Pole. When discovered at the workshop, the"
"Actor for his portrayal of Chuck Noland. In 2004, Zemeckis reteamed with Hanks and directed ""The Polar Express"", based on the children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. ""The Polar Express"" utilized the computer animation technique known as performance capture, whereby the movements of the actors are captured digitally and used as the basis for the animated characters. As the first major film to use performance capture, ""The Polar Express"" caused ""The New York Times"" to write that, ""Whatever critics and audiences make of this movie, from a technical perspective it could mark a turning point in"
"Snow (2004 film) Snow is an American Christmas-themed film starring Tom Cavanagh and Ashley Williams that premiered in 2004 on the ABC television network, and was also shown on the ABC Family cable network later the same year. It was written by Rich Burns and directed by Alex Zamm. Since 2004, ""Snow"" has become a staple on ABC Family's annual 25 Days of Christmas programming block. Nick Snowden, who is really Santa Claus, falls for Sandy Brooks, a pretty zookeeper who works at the zoo from which he must rescue Buddy, a young reindeer who has not yet learned to"
"Fred Claus Fred Claus is a 2007 American fantasy comedy adventure film directed by David Dobkin, written by Dan Fogelman and Jessie Nelson, and starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti. The film was released on November 9, 2007, in the US and later released in the UK on November 30, 2007, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is loosely based on the poem ""A legend of Santa and his brother Fred"" written by Donald Henkel. A baby is born, and within a few minutes of his birth, he starts saying: ""Ho, ho, ho!"". Mother Claus calls her son, Frederick, over to"
"The Santa Clause The Santa Clause (stylized as The Santa Claus) is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy family comedy film written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, and directed by John Pasquin. The first film in the ""Santa Clause"" film series, it stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, an ordinary man who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve. When he and his young son, Charlie, finish St. Nick's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole where Scott learns that he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he"
"off his coat and again falls asleep. He wakes up to the sound of an antique fire engine, which is being driven by the titular Ice Cream Bunny, whom the children's dog Rebel has summoned. The Ice Cream Bunny drives the children through Pirates World to the beach. Santa puts his coat back on to prepare to meet them. He thanks the children for their help and accepts the Ice Cream Bunny's offer to drive him back to the North Pole. Santa reminds the children one last time to always have faith as they depart. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn"
"from the movie. At the age of 45, Hanks became the youngest-ever recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award on June 12, 2002. In 2004, he appeared in three films: The Coen brothers' ""The Ladykillers"", another Spielberg film, ""The Terminal"", and ""The Polar Express"", a family film from Zemeckis for which Hanks played multiple motion capture roles. In a ""USA Weekend"" interview, Hanks discussed how he chooses projects: ""[Since] ""A League of Their Own"", it can't be just another movie for me. It has to get me going somehow ... There has to be some all-encompassing desire or"
"other promotional images of the film. It was released on November 25, 2008, by New Line Records. The compact disc format was released on October 6, 2009, by Watertower Music. Four Christmases Four Christmases (known as Four Holidays or Anywhere But Home in some territories) is a 2008 Christmas romantic comedy film about a couple visiting all four of their divorced parents' homes on Christmas Day. It stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, with Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, and Kristin Chenoweth as supporting cast. The film is director Seth Gordon's"
"Four Christmases Four Christmases (known as Four Holidays or Anywhere But Home in some territories) is a 2008 Christmas romantic comedy film about a couple visiting all four of their divorced parents' homes on Christmas Day. It stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, with Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, and Kristin Chenoweth as supporting cast. The film is director Seth Gordon's first studio feature film. The film is produced by Spyglass Entertainment released by New Line Cinema on November 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiving, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures."
"all-digital capture film. The film also marks Michael Jeter's last acting role before his death, and the film was thus dedicated to his memory. On the night of Christmas Eve, a boy is growing bitterly skeptical of the existence of Santa Claus. As he struggles to sleep, he witnesses the arrival of a steam locomotive on the street outside his home, and dons his robe to investigate, tearing the robe's pocket as he retrieves it. Outside, the train's conductor introduces the train as the Polar Express, bound for the North Pole. The boy initially declines to board, but jumps aboard"
"on them. They tell him they want their money by Christmas or else they will have their enforcer Eliot (Jung-Yul Kim) beat him up. Bill and Harry leave and Nick decides to run away. Nick is leaving the building when Eliot sees him leaving and chases him. Nick manages to escape when he runs to a North Pole stage where kids meet Santa Claus. He steals the costume for Santa Claus and walks to the bus stop in disguise and goes to his brother's house. Meanwhile, the house's mischievous 14-year-old Danny Wrigley (Josh Zuckerman) welcomes his uncle because he has"
"business. He travels to the North Pole to take over Santa’s toy workshop. However, he realizes that he has a lot in common with his father. He faces a crisis of conscience when the Christmas elves at his father’s mailroom go on a labor strike. Like Father, Like Santa Like Father, Like Santa (also known as The Christmas Takeover) is a TV movie starring Harry Hamlin and William Hootkins. It premiered on Fox Family in 1998 on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block. The script was written by Mark Valenti. The story revolves around a toy tycoon named Tyler"
"(with Tom Hanks), ""The Polar Express"" (also with Tom Hanks), ""The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio"" (with Julianne Moore), ""Last Holiday"" (with Queen Latifah), ""Monster House"" (with Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke and Steve Buscemi) and ""Beowulf"" (with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn and Angelina Jolie). In 2007, The Walt Disney Company and ImageMovers set up a joint venture animation facility known as ImageMovers Digital, a Marin County-based film company where Zemeckis would produce and direct 3D animated films using performance capture technology. On November 6, 2009, ImageMovers Digital released their first film ""A Christmas"
"to the North Pole. But he runs out of gas. Luckily for him, a young boy trades his fish for gas. He arrives just in time to save his elves from Jesse. He lure the behemoth to the frozen lake, where he falls in, in which the side effects of his pills give him a different color. He asks Santa for help, who uses magic to return him to normal and Jesse reveals that he didn’t get a present because he never wrote to Santa. Santa then brings Jesse to the police and returns all the toys. He also gives"
"With the use of Mr. Hankey's Poo-Choo train, Cartman and the other boys travel to the North Pole to convince Santa Claus to bring Christmas to Iraq. With the assistance of the Underpants Gnomes, Santa prepares his sleigh and travels to Iraq, only to be promptly shot down, brought in, and tortured. The boys realize that Cartman's little ploy may have ended Christmas for everyone and set out to make things right. Taking a backup sled, they seek out Jesus. Upon hearing the news, Jesus promptly arms himself with an array of automatic weapons and travels with the boys to"
"Christmas Child Christmas Child is a 2004 American Christian film directed by William Ewing starring Steven Curtis Chapman. The film is based on ""The Christmas Cross"", a short story by Max Lucado repackaged in 2003 as ""The Christmas Child: A Story of Coming Home"", and is a story about a Chicago journalist who finds himself in Clearwater, Texas around Christmas time to discover his past. Nine months after the death of his adoptive father, Jack Davenport, a Chicago journalist, obtains some of his possessions which lead Jack to discover his past. Jack receives an assignment to do a story in"
"take men he deemed the ""greatest explorers"" to the North Pole. The group included Armstrong, Edmund Hillary, Hillary's son Peter, Steve Fossett, and Patrick Morrow. They arrived at the Pole on April 6, 1985. Armstrong said he was curious to see what it looked like from the ground, as he had seen it only from the Moon. He did not inform the media of the trip, preferring to keep it private. In 2010, Armstrong voiced the character of Dr. Jack Morrow in """", an animated educational sci-fi adventure film initiated by JPL/NASA through a grant from Jet Propulsion Lab. Between"
"mall called City Center. City Center closed in 1994 after most of its shops closed. During the pre-Christmas shopping period, Herpolsheimer's operated the ""Santa Express"" miniature train on a monorail suspended from the ceiling of the basement in its downtown Grand Rapids store. The train is now located at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Herpolsheimer's was also featured in the 2004 film, ""The Polar Express"". The film's ""Hero Boy"" has a picture from Herpolsheimer's of himself ripping the fake beard off the store's Santa Claus. Later, as the boy is riding the train to the North Pole, the ""Know-It-All kid"""
"The Magic Snowflake The Magic Snowflake (original French title L'Apprenti Père Noël et le flocon magique) is a 2013 French animated Christmas adventure comedy film made by Gaumont Animation. This full-length animated feature film was co-produced with Snipple Animation and Dapaco Productions. This is a sequel to the 2010 animated film ""Santa's Apprentice"". The movie opens where a little boy writes a letter to Santa Claus that he wants a remote control flying bug and mails it to the North Pole. At the North Pole, an Inuit Eskimo boy named Tim-Tim picks up the mail to deliver it to Santa's"
"Juliette Lewis and Diane Keaton. From 1998 to 2002, Scotch Marmo attempted to get an original screenwriting project off the ground as her first feature-length directorial project. ""When Fritz Left Kate"" was developed by various producers, including James L. Brooks, who saw it as a vehicle for Woody Harrelson and Tea Leoni, but the film was not realized. In 2000, Castle Rock Entertainment and Playtone Company hired Scotch-Marmo to adapt Chris Van Allsburg's children's classic ""Polar Express"", to be directed by Rob Reiner and to star Tom Hanks. Polar Express, released in 2004, was ultimately directed by Robert Zemeckis. Scotch"
"Santa Buddies Santa Buddies is a 2009 Straight to DVD film. It is the fourth installment of the ""Air Buddies"" spin-off series as well as the ninth film in the ""Air Bud"" franchise. It was released on November 2, 2009. Tom Bosley's appearance in the film was his final role before his death. At the North Pole, Santa Claus (George Wendt) and his dog Santa Paws (Tom Bosley) take a look at the magical Christmas Icicle, which is melting because nobody believes in Christmas anymore; if it continues to melt, Christmas will be gone forever. Puppy Paws (Zachary Gordon), the"
"get the part of Santa's helper. The kids, Matt (Jason Woliner) and Tanya (Nicole Leach), write letters to Santa Claus and Mr. Conductor sends them on their way. An old man, Mr. Nicholas (Lloyd Bridges), enters the station carrying a Christmas tree with Harry's cousin, Tucker Cooper (Ardon Bess), and immediately knows everything about Stacy Jones (Didi Conn) from when she was a little girl. Mr. Nicholas says he is there to catch the Northern Star, a train that doesn't run on that railway, but Mr. Nicholas is confident it will come. Meanwhile, Stacy agrees to watch Claire's (Judy Marshak)"
"as an ""Indiana Jones""-like movie, featuring the Buddies in another new adventure trying to stop Cleocatra in Egypt. Santa Buddies Santa Buddies is a 2009 Straight to DVD film. It is the fourth installment of the ""Air Buddies"" spin-off series as well as the ninth film in the ""Air Bud"" franchise. It was released on November 2, 2009. Tom Bosley's appearance in the film was his final role before his death. At the North Pole, Santa Claus (George Wendt) and his dog Santa Paws (Tom Bosley) take a look at the magical Christmas Icicle, which is melting because nobody believes"
"on 3,393 screens, ranking #3 behind ""National Treasure"" and ""The Incredibles"". It eventually grossed $96,572,480 worldwide. Christmas with the Kranks Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American Christmas comedy film based on the 2001 novel ""Skipping Christmas"" by John Grisham. It was directed by Joe Roth and written and produced by Chris Columbus. It stars Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis as a couple who decide to skip Christmas one year since their daughter is away, much to the chagrin of their neighbors. This was Tom Poston's final film before his death in 2007. After Riverside, Illinois couple Luther"
"by giving Teddy an old ornament. When Teddy hangs it on the tree, he sees his dad appear In his reflection, and they both express pride in each other. Back in the North Pole, Santa is updating his book of True Believers, adding Teddy's name to it, when Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn) returns with firewood to tell him about hearing about his adventures. When she Suggest getting one of various Christmas movies to watch, Santa takes out the video recording of his adventure that night and suggests that they watch that. In December 2017, it was reported that Kurt Russell"
"son, Charlie (Eric Lloyd), landed on this year's naughty list, but Scott discovers that he must marry by Christmas Eve -- just a month away! -- or he will stop being Santa Claus forever. Christmas cheer turns into holiday chaos when Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), aka Santa, invites his in-laws (Ann-Margret, Alan Arkin) for a visit and must, simultaneously, contend with Jack Frost's (Martin Short) scheme to take over the North Pole. Scott, his family and Head Elf Curtis (Spencer Breslin) must join forces to foil the nefarious plot. Scott Foundas of ""Variety"" called the 1994 film was ""a full-on"
"the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising it as ""the best family film so far this year"" (April 9, 2004). The soundtrack was released April 6, 2004 by Hollywood Records and features Kelly Clarkson's cover of ""Respect"" along with ""Somebody to Love"" and ""Don't Go Breaking My Heart"", both as covered by Hathaway and Jesse McCartney. Ella Enchanted (film) Ella Enchanted is a 2004 fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Tommy O'Haver and written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith loosely based on Gail Carson Levine's 1997 novel of the same name. Starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy,"