The trailer has arrived for Oh Season, a new Christmas musical led by Joel McHale and Josh Holloway, and it is one of the season’s most unexpected festive releases. Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the film in theatres on November 20, 2026.
The film is directed by Mateo Messina and stars Yonas Kibreab as Felix McCoy, with McHale, Paula Patton as Mary McCoy, Holloway, Cress Williams, Scott Hoying and Kate Micucci in support. The trailer, released this week, introduces a small town, a holiday pageant and a boy trying to hold his family together.
A pageant, a loss and a song
The story follows Felix, a young boy grappling with the loss of his mother Mary, who created the town’s annual holiday pageant. With the pageant — and the town’s Christmas — at stake, Felix has to find a way to keep his mother’s tradition alive.
It is a premise built for a musical: grief and celebration side by side, with a community coming together around a stage. Messina, best known as a composer, makes his feature directing debut with the film, and the cast mixes comedy names in McHale and Holloway with the young Kibreab at its centre.
A crowded Christmas slate
Oh Season arrives in a November already crowded with festive fare. The M&S Christmas advert starring James Norton as Santa launched this week, and Johnny Depp is set to play Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer. Theatrical Christmas releases are rarer than television ones, and a musical about a town pageant is a gamble — but the trailer’s mix of humour and heart gives it a clear identity.
The film opens in theatres on November 20, just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend in the United States and the start of the festive season proper.
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Sources: MovieVine, 7 Nov 2026; Mandatory, 6 Nov 2026.
