James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen will be providing the voice talent for Aardman Animation's 3D CG-animated film Arthur Christmas.  McAvoy will voice the title character who is Santa's son who must save Christmas.  I have a tough time believing anything could stop the holiday seeing as I couldn't go 24 hours from Halloween without being pummeled by Christmas marketing.  Variety reports that Laurie will play Arthur's older brother Steve and the heir to the Christmas throne (Christmas apparently being a monarchy).  Broadbent will play Santa.  Variety makes no mention of how the spaceship on the promo poster figures into the story.

I've got relatively high hopes for this film considering Aardman (best known for Wallace & Gromit) usually delivers delightful animated films.  The film is due out on November 23, 2011.