Jennifer Love Hewitt, Vivica A. Fox and more part of “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movie slate
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It’s not even Halloween, but Lifetime is already gearing up for the holidays with the release of its 12-movie “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” lineup.
Included are stars like Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tia Mowry, Vivica A. Fox and Teri Hatcher, all in festive films, all debuting at 8 p.m. ET throughout the weekends of November and December.
Kicking things off on Nov. 16 will be Christmas at Plumhill Manor starring Maria Menounos. On Nov. 17 Lifetime debuts Holidays in Happy Hollow.
Other offerings include We Three Kings, starring singer BeBe Winans,on Nov. 30; Vivica stars with Jackée Harry in Make or Bake Christmas on Dec. 1.
Tia Mowry stars in A Very Merry Beauty Salon on Dec. 7, and on Dec. 14 you can see Hewitt in The Holiday Junkie, which she directed, co-wrote and produced. She also wrote and performed a song for the movie.
Check out the full list here, as well as Lifetime’s tease on YouTube.
Lifetime’s website also has 100 holiday films for your streaming pleasure.
20th Century Studios has released the first trailer and poster for the new espionage thriller The Amateur.Rami Malek stars as a decoder for the CIA whose wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, according to the official synopsis. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, leading to a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible. The Amateur, also starring Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan and Jon Bernthal, opens April 11. 20th Century Studios is a division of Disney, the parent company of ABC News …
The legal drama Reasonable Doubt has been renewed for a third season on Hulu. The series, from executive producers Raamla Mohamed, Kerry Washington and Larry Wilmore, follows high-powered Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Jacqueline “Jax” Stewart — played by Emayatzy Corinealdi — as she deals with past traumas, a failing marriage, motherhood and a murder case, all while trying to keep her life together, per the streaming service …
Netflix has dropped the trailer for season 9 of Queer Eye, set in Las Vegas. This time out, the Fab Five — now joined by Jeremiah Brent, who’ll serve as an interior design expert on the show following the departure of Bobby Berk — will meet a fresh group of individuals ready for life-changing experiences, from a former showgirl struggling to regain her confidence to a dedicated librarian in need of a change. Queer Eye vets Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness return for the upcoming season, premiering Dec. 11 …
It Ends with Us star Brandon Sklenar has been tapped to star in the forthcoming film The Olympian, according to Deadline. The film will follow the true-life journey of blue-collar California rower Brad Alan Lewis — played by Sklenar — who, after being cut from the Ivy League-dominated Olympic camp, fought his way back onto the team, where he shared a contentious relationship with the Olympic team coach before winning the U.S. its first gold medal in rowing in 50 years …
On Thursday Elon Musk debuted the latest advancements from his company Tesla, including its bipedal and apparently AI-enhanced Optimus Robot, along with a Robovan and a Robotaxi, both of which are self-driving.
However, some noted the sleek tech bore more than a passing resemblance to stuff seen in the 2004 Will Smith hit I, Robot — and one of those was its director, Alex Proyas.
Next to pictures of Tesla’s bipedal bot and the vehicles, Proyas posted stills from the film, including its slender humanoid robots.
He wrote, “Hey Elon, Can I have my designs back please?”
While the robots aren’t exact copies, the Robovan looks strikingly similar to a robot transport in the movie.
Chances are Elon was well aware of the designs in the film — the event was called “We Robot.”
Let’s just hope Elon’s bots don’t go into revolution mode as they did in the film.
The upcoming Friday Night Lights reboot has landed at Peacock. Netflix lost out to the NBCU streamer for the new adaptation of the high school football-centric drama series in a battle that played out over the last several days. Jason Katims, the original series’ showrunner, will helm for Universal Television, while original director Peter Berg and producer Brian Grazer are also set to return …
Hold on to your horses: there’s more Yellowstone on the way. The universe is expanding, as Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser are set to star in a brand-new spin-off series as their characters, Beth and Rip, Variety reports. The news comes just days before the season 5 finale of Yellowstone airs …
Eddie Redmayne will join Julia Roberts in the new thriller Panic Room. Deadline reports that Elizabeth Olsen is also attached to the Warner Bros. film, which will be directed by Sam Esmail. While the plot is being kept under wraps, it has been described as a paranoid thriller similar to Esmail’s previous Emmy-winning show, Mr. Robot …
