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Rebecca Dalton and Olivier Renaud star in the new, original movie Head Over Heels on Hallmark Channel. Premiering on August 31, the movie is part of the network’s annual Summer Nights programming event. Read on to find out the plot of the movie and its cast, including images taken on the movie’s set.

Rebecca Dalton and Olivier Renaud in Head Over Heels on Hallmark Channel Photo: Alexandra Castillo, Curtis Legault, Laura Wilson Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Johnson Production Group

According to the official press release, the movie tells the story of a shoe designer who finds her perfect fit while working for a formidable footwear icon. Addi (Dalton), the shoe designer, had always dreamed of being a shoe designer like her idol, the trailblazing female phenomenon, Delaney Diaz (Alexandra Castillo). She established her luxury shoe...

You know how much we love Christmas movies here at TV Fanatic, so sharing Lifetime's holiday slate brings us great pleasure.

Lifetime's festivities begin on Saturday, November 18, and the entire programming strand will feature 12 movies.

We're talking stars like Tia Mowry, Luke Humphrey, Vivica A. Fox, Nicollette Sheridan, and well-known actors.

So, what's on tap for the holiday season, TV Fanatics?

Check out Lifetime's complete list of movies below.

Christmas Plus One - Saturday, November 18 at 8 p.m.

When sisters Cara (Emily Alatalo) and Amy (Vanessa Smythe) make a pact to find their soulmates by next Christmas, they're not expecting anything to come from it.

However, one year later, Amy's winter wedding is approaching, and Cara finally finds her own perfect man, Chase (Andrew Bushell), who agrees to attend as her plus one.

But after immediately losing his number, all hope is lost. Will she find him in time...

There are instances in director Carey Williams’ boldly experimental yet wearisome “R#J” that genuinely grasp the essence of romance, identity and existence in the age of social media. Those fleeting but relatable moments feel like major triumphs in Williams’ Gen Z-centric adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” a movie that unfolds almost entirely on electronic screens. And you get a taste of them enough times to wish for a film that achieves a similar level of insight on the whole, something with purpose that went beyond the contrived quest, “What if we do Shakespeare, but solely in the virtual world?”

It’s not that the work of the Bard is necessarily sacrosanct or untouchable. Every era has a right to process his timeless texts from its own point of view, either in original form or through the fresh perspectives of present-day artists. It is, after all, exactly that license that...

William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” has long endured as one of the written word’s greatest love stories, but what’s often forgotten among the “star-crossed lovers” and the dumb rage of familial feuds is just how nutty hormone-addled teenagers can be. It was true in the 16th century when The Bard committed its story to paper — based on a number of earlier tales — and then the stage; it was true when Franco Zeffirelli made his 1968 film, and when Baz Luhrmann updated it in 1996; and it’s certainly true in 2021.

For the latest — and, given the ways teenagers interact these days, wholly inevitable — adaptation, filmmaker Williams’ “R#J” joins a growing cadre of “screen films,” this one bolstered by the producing and technological talents of Timur Bekmambetov and Igor Tsay’s Screenlife platform, which aims to build the best screen-set films in a market beset by them.

The screen elements of “R#J,...

If every generation gets the “Romeo and Juliet” it deserves, well, Gen Z may need to wait a little longer for theirs. It probably won’t be Sundance entry “R#J,” which is so intently of-the-moment it almost feels dated before the credits roll.

For his first feature, director Carey Williams uses Screenlife — in which the entire story unfolds on devices — to retell Shakespeare’s timeless tale, with a few notable twists. This time, Romeo and Juliet fall in love while DMing each other emojis and gifs from “The Office.” Purists need not apply, of course, but that’s Ok: the Bard can stand up to interpretations from any era. Then again, where’s the dignity in Dwight Schrute? And can we really consider nearly-nude selfies (So. Many. Selfies.) a worthy upgrade?

What “R#J” does have going for it is a diverse cast that reflects a wider range of adolescence than most adaptations.

Exclusive: Diego Tinoco, best known for the Netflix series, On My Block, and Siddiq Saunderson of Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga, will co-star In R#J, a modern-day adaptation of the Shakespearean classic Romeo and Juliet from producers Timur Bekmambetov and Igor Tsay. Carey Williams is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Rickie Castaneda.

Tinoco will take on the role of Tybalt. Saunderson is Mercutio. Additional cast includes Camaron Engels (Malibu Rescue) as Romeo, Francesca Noel (Selah and the Spades) as Juliet, and Rj Cyler (Power Rangers) as Benvolio.

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This marks the first project under Bekmambetov and Tsay’s newly-launched Interface Films banner.