‘Clashing Through the Snow’ Trailer Sets Nov. 23 Prime Video Premiere
Amazon MGM Studios released the trailer for the holiday rom-com "Clashing Through the Snow" with Michelle Randolph and Christopher Briney as rival book editors. It streams worldwide on Prime Video from November 23, three days before Thanksgiving. Carlson Young directed.
Amazon MGM Studios has released the trailer for "Clashing Through the Snow," a holiday romantic comedy starring Michelle Randolph and Christopher Briney, which premieres worldwide on Prime Video on November 23.
The film arrives three days before Thanksgiving, just as the holiday travel rush begins. Briney and Randolph play publishing editors who must share a rental car after a snowstorm grounds their flights.
Carlson Young directed the film. Danny Mackey and Rebecca Ewing wrote it. The cast also includes Lukas Gage, Andrew Schulz, Julia Fox and Paris Hilton, who plays a stylized version of herself. PJ Byrne and comedian Zarna Garg also appear, and Fox plays a rock star.
The trailer is set to Olivia Rodrigo's first Christmas single, "Take Me Home (4 Christmas)."
What the trailer shows
Briney plays Ryan Mitchell and Randolph plays Hannah Hendricks. Both are hunting for the next big book pitch that could win the top publishing job at a company called Latitude. Their boss, played by Byrne, has to make cuts because "publishing isn't what it used to be."
The rivalry shows from the start. "Nobody reads your book selections anyway," Ryan tells Hannah in a parking garage. She calls him a "spineless sellout."
Hannah wants a meeting with Fox's character, Bianca Hart, who has an unpublished memoir in the works. Ryan sets up his own meeting with best-selling author Emily McIntyre. Both meetings are in New York over the holidays, and the two realize they are sitting next to each other on the same flight.
The holiday snowstorm grounds the plane. They then fight over the one remaining rental car, and Ryan says he would rather be "trapped in a porta potty at Burning Man during an earthquake" than share it.
Ryan nicknames Hannah "Vin Diesel." She drives the red Fiat a bit too fast on the icy roads and skids into a crash that totals the car.
That leaves them at the creepy Mercyville Inn, run by an equally off-putting manager played by Gage. He gives them his own manuscript to read. As their adventures continue, each hints at falling for the other.
Cast and crew background
Briney is known as Conrad Fisher in three seasons of Prime Video's "The Summer I Turned Pretty." Randolph stars in the Paramount+ drama "Landman" and has appeared in "1923" and "Scream 7."
Young previously directed the Prime Video romantic comedies "Upgraded" and "The Last Sunrise." Mackey and Ewing wrote "Love Hard," the 2021 Netflix holiday romantic comedy.
Young has described the film as a romantic comedy about enemies who fall in love. "If you like Christopher, you will love Clashing," she said.
Production took place in New York City in early 2026. Photographers captured Briney and Randolph shooting a motorcycle scene in lower Manhattan on March 12 and filming on the Upper West Side a week later. Prime Video released behind-the-scenes photos from the set in August.
