Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson and Sue Johnston are to star in a multi-faith, latter-day version of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for BBC One ... who receives an unexpected £8,000 Christmas bonus ...

Director Chris Columbus claims he quit working on “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” after he met ... a “better script” with the added bonus of not having to work with Chase.

Christmas Vacation could have been part of his bio as well. Columbus, 66, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Monday, December 23, that he had started working on the 1989 National Lampoon ...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which premiered on December 1, 1989, remains a beloved holiday classic. This film is a quintessential Christmas slapstick comedy that perfectly captures the ...

said he was also supposed to direct 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” — but opted out because of the movie’s star, Chevy Chase. “I was signed on … and then I met Chevy ...

That’s because Columbus was originally working with screenwriter John Hughes on 1989’s “Christmas Vacation,” starring Chase. Columbus was hired to direct the comedy and was in the middle ...

A “bizarre” encounter with actor Chevy Chase led then-unknown filmmaker Chris Columbus to walk off National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The Nosferatu producer recalled the experience ...

It took everything in my power to convince myself to resign from Christmas Vacation because I couldn ... Clark was stiffed on his big Christmas bonus, his co-stars wore giant cue cards around ...

Meanwhile on the lawn below, an homage to Orsini's favorite holiday flick: "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." The 1989 slapstick comedy stars Chevy Chase as a well-meaning dad, trying to ...

Only two factors kept a National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation cast member from consideration: the march of time and a petered-out career. On the former front there’s the majority of the 1989 ...

The Department of Work and Pensions has responded to calls for the Christmas Bonus payment it makes to people on benefits to be increased. As claimants begin to see the £10 bonus payment land in ...