Netflix Christmas movie release dates and ratings

On November 23, 2024By Littum

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Two of Netflix’s newest Christmas movies are already dominating the streamer’s most-watched charts — and more are on the way — as holiday movies starring stars from the early 2000s and Hallmark’s “Queen of Christmas” capture audiences.

Lindsay Lohan as Avery in “Our Little Secret”.

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“Meet Me Next Christmas,” a romantic comedy starring Christina Milian and Devale Ellis, opened Nov. 6 to become the most-watched movie of the week with 18.1 million views in the first five days.

It remained high on the streamer’s most-watched list in its second week, from November 11 to November 17, but fell to second place with 11.8 million views behind “Hot Frosty,” which was viewed 16 million times in its first five days.

“Hot Frosty,” which sees a magical snowman come to life and woo a widow, made waves on social media after its release for its recognizable cast, which includes so-called “Queen of Christmas” Lacey Chabert (she’s been in dozens of holidays). movies for the channel), Dustin Milligan (“Schitt’s Creek”) and Craig Robinson (“The Office”).

“One Tree Hill” actor Chad Michael Murray stars in Netflix’s third holiday release, “The Merry Gentlemen,” which came out Wednesday and quickly dethroned “Hot Frosty” on Netflix’s top 10 list.

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Lacey Chabert as Kathy Barrett and Dustin Milligan as Jack Snowman in “Hot Frosty”.

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“I just watched the movie Netflix made about the sexy snowman who turns into Ted from ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ gets arrested by Daryl from ‘The Office,’ and falls in love with Gretchen Weiners from ‘Mean Girls,’ and I can’t express how worth the hour and a half it was to watch this,” TikTok musician Emhahee said in a video which now has more than 3 million views. “Art is not dead.”

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82%. That’s the Rotten Tomatoes score for “Hot Frosty,” among the top Netflix original movies so far this year, despite reviews calling it “extremely stupid“and”generic saccharin.” “Meet me next Christmas” has 69%.

When to watch all of Netflix’s 2024 original holiday movies

“Meet Me Next Christmas” (Nov. 6) – Layla (Milian), a hopeless romantic, races around New York City to get a ticket to the most sought-after concert of the holiday season in hopes of impressing the man of her dreams, but is captivated by a helpful concierge (Ellis) along the way.

“Hot Frosty” (Nov. 13) – Two years after her husband’s death, Kathy (Chabert) accidentally resurrects a snowman (Milligan) who helps her rediscover the magic of Christmas.

“The Merry Gentlemen” (Nov. 20) – A professional dancer (Britt Robertson) decides to host an all-male revue in her hometown to save her parents’ failing bar and recruits handyman Luke (Murray) to help.

Chad Michael Murray as Luke and Hector David Jr. as Ricky in “The Merry Gentlemen”.

“Our Little Secret” (Nov. 27) – Two exes (Lindsay Lohan and Ian Harding) discover they are dating siblings and are forced to spend Christmas together.

“That Christmas” (Dec. 4) — A trilogy of children’s books is brought to life in this animated Christmas comedy with a cast that includes Brian Cox (“Succession”), Jodie Whittaker (“Doctor Who”) and Bill Nighy (“Love Actually”).

“Continue” (December 13) – A TSA agent (Taron Egerton) is blackmailed into letting a dangerous package onto a plane in this Christmas-themed thriller.

Taron Egerton as Ethan Kopek in “Carry-On”.

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Netflix also releases holiday-centric TV shows and a musical special. “A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter” is a holiday special featuring surprise musical guests and performances from Carpenter’s holiday EP “Fruitcake.” It premieres at 9pm on Friday 6 December. Two seasonal baking shows – “Is it cake? Holiday” (Nov. 28) and “The Great British Baking Show: Holidays” (Dec. 9) – out on the streamer, iconic holiday actress Keira Knightley (“Love Actually”) stars in the thriller series called “Black Doves” set against the backdrop of London at Christmas. The first season of the series will be released on December 5.

Key

The Hallmark Channel has been climbing the cable charts since the newsreel holiday movie started debuting in October. For the week of Nov. 11-17, the most recent Nielsen data available, Hallmark rose to be the third most popular channel in primetime and total viewers, beating out both MSNBC and CNN. Fifteen films have been released so far and “Santa Tell Me” is the most watched to date with 2.7 million total viewers.