With divorce on the rise, holiday gatherings can be tricky. Do you choose to hang out with one parent, while leaving the other feeling shamed and neglected? Or worse yet, what if you have four different family households who desire your company on the same evening?

According to Variety, this is the basic setup for New Line’s upcoming Four Christmases. A young couple, whose parents are both divorced and married to other people, have to figure a way to visit all four households on Christmas Day. The script is written by Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson.

Victoria Jenson, helmer of Shrek and Shark Tale, will make her live-action directorial debut with the movie. Regarding the crossover from animation to live-action, Jenson explains: “We tend to get pigeonholed. I come up against the idea that somehow I'm a first-time director. This is my third major motion picture, yet there's a little stigma attached to animation directors as we try to move into live action. Her Shrek co-director Andrew Adamson transitioned well with Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe so hopefully the odds will be in her favor too.

The movie was originally set for a holiday release in 2004 by Sony, but a scheduling conflict with Christmas With The Kranks led it to be shelved indefinitely. It may finally see the light of day during the 2007 holiday season.