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Photo: Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page Credit: ©2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy MarVista Entertainment

Rescuing Christmas first aired on Hallmark Movies Now in December 2023. However, it is now heading for a new premiere on Hallmark Channel as part of the popular Christmas in July programming event.

Rachael Leigh Cook and Sam Page lead the movie which is set to premiere on July 13. Read on to find out more about the movie, its plot and its cast, and see beautiful images and a trailer taken from the film set.

Rescuing Christmas on Hallmark Channel Photo: Patrick O’Brien, Bailey Stender Credit: ©2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy MarVista Entertainment

According to the official synopsis, the movie tells the story of a freelance photographer who accidentally erases Christmas from history when offered three, magical Christmas wishes. Erin Smithson (Rachael Leigh Cook) is still reeling from a breakup last Christmas and is feeling less than festive as the holidays draw near.

Candace Cameron Bure is no longer solving mysteries as Aurora Teagarden. Now, she’s Ainsley McGregor.

On Tuesday, Great American Family announced they will soon launch Great American Mysteries — following closely in the footsteps of Hallmark, which also has Hallmark Movies & Mysteries under its umbrella. Gaf’s first mystery film franchise will be “Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker,” starring Bure, Aaron Ashmore and Bj Harrison. The series will be adapted from Candace Havens’ book of the same name.

Great American Mysteries will feature “thrilling whodunnits featuring beloved Great American Family stars and the network will announce more new original mystery movie series in the next few weeks,” per Tuesday’s press release. President and CEO of Great American Media Bill Abbott added, “We are thrilled to be in the business of telling fun, light-hearted stories featuring great characters, strong stories and a fun side of the mystery...

Exclusive: Great American Family wants to inject a little mystery into its storytelling.

The network that says it offers content that celebrates family, faith, and country is launching Great American Mysteries, a movie franchise that will star Great American talent. It’s a proven strategy that was first tested at Hallmark, where Crown Media’s former CEO Bill Abbott — who now serves as CEO of Gac Media — oversaw the 2014 rebranding of Hallmark Movie Channel to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

The first movie in the Great American Mysteries series is The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker starring Candace Cameron Bure and Aaron Ashmore (Ginny & Georgia). Adapted from bestselling novelist Candace Havens’ book of the same name, The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker follows Ainsley McGregor (Bure), a former Chicago criminologist who returns to her hometown of Sweet River, Texas. She has chosen to trade full-time...

New York, July 3 (Ians) Researchers have found new insights into how water from melting ice could have played a recent role in the formation of ravine-like channels or gullies that cut down the sides of impact craters on Mars.The study, published in the journal Science, focuses on Martian gullies, which look eerily similar to gullies that form on Earth in the dry valleys of Antarctica and are caused by water erosion from melting glaciers.

The researchers, including from Brown University, built a model that simulates a sweet spot for when conditions on Mars allow the planet to warm above freezing temperatures, leading to periods of liquid water on Mars when ice on and beneath the surface melts.

The scientists found that when Mars tilts on its axis to 35 degrees, the atmosphere becomes dense enough for brief episodes of melting to occur at gully locations.

They then matched the data...

Exclusive: Candace Cameron Bure has booked her next holiday movie for Great American Family.

Bure will play a U.S. Army reservist and orthopedic physician in My Christmas Hero, which will premiere as part of the network’s annual Great American Christmas franchise. Great American Christmas returns in October with original movie premieres Saturdays and Sundays, and 24/7 holiday movies through the end of the year.

Bure’s character, Nicole Ramsey, is dedicated to serving military service members and their families at the Joint Military Base in Lacey, Washington, home of I Corps and the 62nd Airlift Wing. This Christmas, with the help of many dedicated heroes, Dr. Ramsey is on a mission to honor a special fallen soldier and bring much needed healing to her own family.

“We are proud to tell a story that honors our U.S. veterans this Christmas season. From WW2 to present day veterans, we shine...

Exclusive: Rachael Leigh Cook, star of ‘90s movies including She’s All That, has signed a wide-ranging deal with Fox’s Marvista Entertainment.

The pact will see Cook develop, produce and act in a number of projects including a holiday film and There She Goes (w/t), a feature loosely based on her real-life experiences.

It comes as Cook is starring in Netflix’s A Tourist’s Guide to Love, which launches this month.

The deal is one of the highest profile partnerships unveiled by Marvista Entertainment since it was acquired by Fox Entertainment in December 2021.

Leigh Cook will develop and produce several projects across genres over the next few years via her production company Ben’s Sister Productions. She will work in front of and behind the camera.

The deal was shepherded by Hannah Pillemer, EVP, Creative Affairs, MarVista Entertainment.

The first few projects revealed are There She Goes, which will star...

Exclusive: Emmy nominee Ben Feldman (Superstore), Missi Pyle (Y: The Last Man), Jacqueline Correa (Graduate), Nondumiso Tembe (Six), Morgan Lynee Dudley (The Prom), Andrew Barth Feldman (High School Musical: The Musical – The Series), Glynn Sweet (Rosamunde Pilcher) and Alexa Povah (The King’s Man) will round out the cast of Netflix’s romance A Tourist’s Guide to Love, joining an ensemble that also includes Rachael Leigh Cook, Scott Ly, Thanh Truc and Le Thien, as previously announced.

In the film from director Steven Tsuchida (In the Dark), a travel executive goes through an unexpected breakup, then accepting an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide when they decide to reroute the tour bus in order to explore life and love off the beaten path.

Cook and Muse Entertainment’s Joel S. Rice...

Rachael Leigh Cook will star in the Netflix original film “A Tourist’s Guide to Love,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The film is based on an original idea of Cook’s with Eirene Donohue set to write the screenplay. In the film, after an unexpected break up, a travel executive (Cook) accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide when they decide to hijack the tour bus in order to explore life and love off the beaten path.

Cook will produce in addition to starring. Jim Head of Head First Productions will also produce, with Joel S. Rice and Lydia Storie of Muse Entertainment executive producing.

This is not the first Netflix film Cook has worked on in recent years. She previously starred in and produced the film “Love, Guaranteed” at the streamer.

Nickelodeon has optioned author Chris Grabenstein’s popular novel, “Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library”. The popular kids network is eying The New York Times Bestseller for a television movie adaptation, but Nick has yet to exercise their option. If the project moves to development, Head First Productions president Jim Head will serve as executive producer. Also read: Wanda Sykes Inks Comedy Development Deal With NickMom (Exclusive) Published by Random House Penguin in June 2013, “Library” takes place over one weekend in the world’s most “fabulous” library, and follows 12 middle-school students who are competing for a grand prize. In the competition,...

There is fallout from producer Stanley M. Brooks' financial troubles ahead of settlement talks planned for Monday with AFTRA, DGA and the WGA West. All three guilds have him on their "strike" (do not work) lists over unpaid salaries or residual payments.

The fallout involves Lifetime, to which Brooks had been a frequent supplier for the past decade -- up until a week or so ago. THR has learned he has quietly sold his interest in the only two projects he still has with the A&E Television Networks division, apparently to clear any obstacle to their production and to raise money to pay his union obligations -- and salvage his reputation.

One of the two movies, which have not been announced by domestic rights holder Lifetime Movie Network, is the suspense thriller "Sandra Brown's Smoke Screen," now shooting in Vancouver and starring Jaime Pressly and Canadian Currie Graham.

NBC is extending its successful Behind the Camera movie franchise with Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy', a behind-the-scenes look at the 1978 ABC sitcom's instant success with a focus on the meteoric rise to fame of its star Robin Williams. Actor Chris Diamantopoulos has been tapped to play Williams in the project, from Stanley M. Brooks' Once Upon a Time Films. Comedy scribe David Misch, whose first writing job was on Mork & Mindy, penned the script for the movie, which is executive produced by Matt Dorff (NBC's Growing Up Brady) and former Turner executive Jim Head. Neill Fearnley, who directed ABC's Inside the Osmonds from a script by Dorff, is on board to helm The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy', which is slated to begin production next month.