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Gac Family has set When Hope Calls: Hearties Christmas Present, billed as a “surprise one-hour original special,” to air Sunday, December 12 at 10 pm Et. It will immediately follow the world premiere of previously announced A Christmas Star, movie starring Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and When Calls the Heart‘s Daniel Lissing.

The one-hour special was filmed on the set of When Hope Calls, spinoff to the nine-year hit When Calls The Heart which spawned the loyal fandom known as the #Hearties.

As we previously reported, When Calls the Heart alumna Lori Loughlin will appear in the Season 2 two-hour premiere of When Hope Calls on December 18, reprising her role as Abigail Stanton, in her return to acting. We’re told Loughlin appears in brief snippets of video in the special.

The holiday season is almost here and Amazon Prime is getting in the mood with its list of December 2021 releases. Sure there are the usual Christmas movies to be found but the real gift this month are two big original titles.

The sixth and final season of beloved sci-fi series The Expanse premieres on Dec. 10. Amazon is doing its usual release strategy of three episodes on the premiere day followed by a weekly schedule so there’s still some time to be spent with the crew of the Rocinante. The other big ticket item is the Desi and Lucy biopic Being the Ricardos on Dec. 21. Sure, Aaron Sorkin seems to be completely disinterested in I Love Lucy and Nicole Kidman bears no passing resemblance to the iconic comedienne whatsoever but uh…it’s a movie!

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Madrid — Ahead of next week’s Natpe market in Miami, Beta, one of the biggest independent TV-film powerhouses in Europe, has confirmed a swathe of sales on its U.S. TV movie productions and high-end spin-off series “Gomorrah: The Immortal.”

The sales flag Beta’s diversified production-distribution model, and the continuing appetite for TV movies in the U.S., led by Lifetime and Hallmark channels, as the demand for movies of all type rises in a new streaming platform era.

In banner sales, A & E has acquired a bevy of U.S. TV thrillers for Lifetime, among them “Fatal Friend Request,” starring Sarah Lind (“True Justice”) and Bree Williamson (“Private Eyes”), produced by Cartel, “Purity Falls” by Stargazer, with Krisanna Loken (“Burn Notice2) and Trevor Stines (“Riverdale”) and a trio of Ninth House-productions: “Perfect Party Planner,” toplining Lindsey McKeon (“Supernatural”), “Bridal Nightmare” with Karissa Lee Staples (“S.W.A.T.”) and Mark Hapka...

The Cinemagic training scheme gave 48 young aspiring filmmakers the chance to learn on set.

UK sales company Starline Entertainment has picked up rights to Grace & Goliath, the family feature made with the assistance of the Cinemagic training programme.

The second feature production for the Cinemagic scheme, Grace & Goliath offered 48 aspiring filmmakers aged from 17 to 25 the chance to work on a six-week training programme across directing, production, costume and make-up, sound, lighting and music composition.

Those involved came from Los Angeles and Northern Ireland, and took part under the guidance of director Tony Mitchell and producer and Cinemagic chief executive Joan Burney Keatings.

The stars of yesterday now are making three films a year you never knew existed until they show up on Netflix.^ Real Movie ^

In my prior life as a script reader, I certainly read a lot of bad scripts, but at times, an even more common occurrence was a script that seemed to do a great many things right, but somehow fell just short of being something you wanted to champion as a movie. As draining as the terrible scripts were, there’s something pure about clear-cut bad. It takes little effort to explain why they’re unfit.

The real challenges were the scripts that had kind of a decent premise, kind of an okay twist or two, and a lead character who wasn’t bad so much as he or she was just… there. The raw materials are there for what Could be a script. They just happen to be assembled in the least compelling way...

The holiday season is here and like a lot of you, I plan on staying inside as much as I can and watching some great TV and movies. Thankfully Netflix is here to help with a new batch of offerings for December. They are also removing some titles you may want to watch while you can! Of course we are all waiting to see this Bill Murray Christmas special which arrives December 4th. Have a safe and happy viewing month everyone! Check out the full listings below:

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#DeathToSelfie (2014)

30 for 30: Chasing Tyson (2015)

50 Shades of They: Season 1

A Christmas Star (2015)

A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z (2014)

Amnesiac (2015)

Broadchurch: Season 2

Cbgb (2013)

Christmas Wedding Baby (2014)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004)

Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

Darkman (1990)

Detectorists: Season 1

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To mark the release of A Christmas Star on 23rd November, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray. Born under the Christmas Star, Noelle (Erin Galway-Kendrick) believes she has the gift to perform miracles, so when conniving developer McKerrod (Rob James-Collier) threatens her peaceful life she and her friends determine to use

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Billed as being the first Irish Christmas movie – there’s also something rather noteworthy about Richard Elson’s enchanting festive production – it’s the first feature to have derived from the Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People, a charity and initiative to help generate an intrigue into cinema amongst our next generation.

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The company has picked up international sales rights to Richard Elson’s family film narrated by Liam Neeson.

Newcomer Erin Galway-Kendrick stars in A Christmas Star with a supporting role by Pierce Brosnan and a cameo from Kylie Minogue.

Galway-Kendrick plays Noelle, who believes to have the gift to perform miracles and is determined to save her village from a conniving developer, played by Brosnan.

Cinemagic’s Joan Burney Keatings produced the film and Elson co-wrote the screenplay with Maire Campbell.

Spotlight Pictures vp Ryan McCombs brokered the deal with Keatings.

Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People has produced its first feature, featuring Irish action stars Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan.

A Christmas Star, screening this weekend in the market, is billed as the “first Irish Christmas Film” and features voiceover from Taken star Neeson. He also cameos along with James Bond star Pierce Brosnan and Kylie Minogue (Holy Motors).

Starring Downton Abbey’s Robert James-Collier and Bronagh Waugh, from TV drama The Fall, it marks the feature directorial debut of Richard Elson and it has given 40 young trainees their first credit on a feature film.

“It’s an amazing opportunity to give young people skills development, an opportunity to work on a film and it’s a chance to give something back to the industry,” said producer Joan Burney Keatings.

Set it Northern Ireland, it centres on young Noelle (Erin Galway Kendrick), who believes she can perform miracles after being born under a ‘Christmas...