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Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: David Owen Strongman

Hallmark favorite actress Jessica Lowndes has been missing from the network for a couple of years while in an exclusive contract with Great American Family. However, the good news is that Jessica is back on the feel-good network with the new, original movie, Happy Howlidays.

To keep things interesting, however, the male lead in the movie is currently a mystery. This is because the unknown hunk was the winner of the Finding Mr. Christmas reality show, hosted by Jonathan Bennett. Read on to find out what we do know so far about this upcoming Christmas movie.

Jessica Lowndes returns to Hallmark in Happy Howlidays Photo: Jessica Lowndes

Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Allister Foster

Fur-face lovers will certainly enjoy this last movie in Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2024. However, besides the cute dogs, this movie sees the return of...

Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights to the true-events-inspired feature film, “Lost on a Mountain In Maine,” which will begin its theatrical run on Nov. 1.

From Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions, the film tells the true story of 12-year-old Donn Fendler, who “becomes separated from his family by a fast-moving storm atop a treacherous mountain,” the film’s logline reads.

It continues: “For nine days, Donn fights to stay alive as he attempts to survive the unforgiving wilderness of northern Maine without food, proper clothing, or the knowledge of how bad his situation really is. His disappearance sparks a massive search effort that captures national headlines and attracts hundreds of volunteers, including his own father, who fears he may never see his son again.”

Luke David Blumm (“The King of Staten Island”), Paul Sparks (Netflix’s “House of Cards”), Caitlin FitzGerald (Showtime’s “Masters of Sex”) and Ethan Slater...

When Tom Hanks has been signed on to a project and the film is an adaptation of a bestselling book that almost overnight became a worldwide sensation, very little could go wrong outside the scope of production. However, in the case of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, the scandal that unfolded behind the scenes presented an entirely different scenario.

Angels and Demons (2009) [Credit: Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures]

This time, it was not the studio execs who ruined a perfectly good script with unnecessary notes or censorship. It was the Church itself that descended upon the filmmakers and defended its institution from the outrageous, blasphemous fictional novel about a fictional man obsessed with symbols and adventures.

Tom Hanks Singlehandedly Erupted the Vatican City

After the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code shook the very foundations of Christianity, the Vatican found itself imposing a ban on all things Dan Brown, including his books...

Floating Weeds Sitting inside his Tokyo home, surrounded by stacks of books and photos of John Ford and Jean-Luc Godard pinned to the wall, the venerated film and literary critic, writer, and scholar Shiguéhiko Hasumi admitted with a wry smile that he was not really in the mood to talk about Ozu. We were gathered for an interview about a new English translation of his book Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, but he had old Hollywood on his mind. As he spoke, he switched between Japanese and French-accented English. “This book was written 40 years ago,” he said. “My last monograph is about John Ford. And this is my latest book. I greatly admire the films of Don Siegel.” He pointed to What is a Shot?. “So, I am so far from Ozu.” Indeed, Hasumi, who turns 88 this month, remains prolific. Spread out on the coffee table in front of him by...

Bengaluru, Aug 31 (Ians) With a focus on the Men’s Odi World Cup, twelve players from the Netherlands men’s team are in India this week for a training camp focused on spin and batting led by head coach Ryan Cook, said the Royal Dutch Cricket Association (Kncb) in a statement on Thursday.

The camp is intended to prepare for the local conditions to be found in the upcoming Men’s Odi World Cup in India from October 5 to November 19. In addition to Cook, assistant coaches Ryan van Niekerk and Heino Kuhn are present with the Netherlands players in Bengaluru.

Captain Scott Edwars, Max O’ Dowd, Vikram Singh, Aryan Dutt, Teja Nidamanuru, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Wesley Barresi, Clayton Floyd, Daniel Doram, Noah Croes, Arnav Jain and Philippe Boissevain are the Netherlands’ players in India at the moment for the camp, with the final Netherlands Men’s Odi World Cup squad to...

Amsterdam, Oct 11 (Ians) Former South Africa opener and ex-India coach Gary Kirsten and Australia veteran Dan Christian have been added to the Netherlands coaching staff ahead of the Icc T20 World Cup in Australia, commencing on October 16.

The Netherlands are drawn in Group A alongside the United Arab Emirates, Namibia and Sri Lanka in the First Round of the T20 World Cup and need to finish in the top two in the group to progress to the Super 12 stage of the event.

Kirsten and Christian will work with head coach Ryan Cook and skipper Scott Edwards as the Dutch prepare for the opening match against the UAE on October 16.

Kirsten, who was also in contention for the England Test head coach’s job before New Zealander Brendon McCullum was appointed to the post, led India to success at the 2011 Icc Cricket World Cup and has since strengthened his coaching credentials...