The Christmas Chronicles

Kate and Teddy Pierce are siblings who set out to capture proof that Santa Claus is real. Their plan goes wrong when they sneak aboard his sleigh and cause a crash, leaving Christmas in jeopardy. With Santa and his elves, the two children must set things right before the holiday is lost.

The film is a family adventure directed by Clay Kaytis, his second feature after The Angry Birds Movie, and later followed by several animated specials and A Christmas Story Christmas. Matt Lieberman wrote the screenplay, and Chris Columbus is among the producers. Darby Camp and Judah Lewis play the siblings, with Kurt Russell as Santa Claus, alongside Martin Roach, Lamorne Morris and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. The credited cast runs to 39.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from around 94,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.2 out of 10 from a much smaller base of roughly 2,400 votes. The film critics' rating stands at 5.9 out of 10 from 61 reviews, below what general audiences gave it, suggesting viewers responded more warmly to the film than reviewers did. Running 104 minutes, it was released in November 2018.