The Magic Crystal (Finnish: Maaginen kristalli), also released as Santa's Magic Crystal and The Elf that Rescued Christmas in the UK, is a 2011 Finnish-Belgian computer-animated Christmas film directed by Antti Haikala from a screenplay by Haikala, Bob Swain, Dan Wicksman, Nuria Wicksman and Alessandro Liggieri.The film is part of a unified multimedia concept developed by Mikael Wahlfors, which also includes Andrew Bernhardt's Special Patrol children's books, and a 26-part animated series Red Caps and a mobile app World Polar Heroes. The Magic Crystal was produced by the Epidem ZOT, Aranéo and Skyline Animation.It was released in Belgium in November 2 2011 and on 18 of the same month in Finland, the film was a box office bomb, grossing $340,836 against a budget of €5,074,000 ($6,001,019.8).