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Holidays are a time for family, friends, snow and as far as my wife is concerned: corny holiday movies.

To try and help her never-ending Holiday movie appetite, we’re going to check if we can create a new Christmas movie. The blog post is structured in two parts:

Part I: getting the data and trying to identify the Christmas movies

Part II: using this dataset to try and generate a new one

Code for part I can be found here, the full repo can be found here.

The Movies

Not pointing on any movie maker in particular, but Hallmark is a goldmine when it comes to holiday movies. So let’s try to dig into those.

For this, I:

Scraped the public wikipedia page on Hallmark movies (link)

Parsed all movies from 2000 - 2018 to get the title and date (using Beautifullsoup)

And indeed: it seems Christmas movies are booming: