Hulu Acquires Two New Holiday Movies, Including Denise Richards’ ‘A Christmas Frequency’ (Exclusive)
Hulu is once again decking the halls. The streaming service has acquired two new movies, “A Christmas Frequency” and “Reporting for Christmas,” produced by Nicely Entertainment, coming this holiday season. Both are set to premiere Nov. 1.
“A Christmas Frequency” stars Denise Richards as a morning radio show host, who is struggling in both her personal life — secretly separating from her husband (James Hyde) — and at work, with the ratings of her show dropping. When she’s set up on a series of blind dates as a way to save the show, things get interesting with one man (Jonathan Stoddard) is both a man she’s actually interested in and someone who has also applied to be her date.
“A Christmas Frequency is directed by Lindsay Hartley. Vanessa Shapiro executive produces; producers are Richard Switzer and Dave Hickey.
“Reporting for Christmas” follows Mary (Tamara Feldman), a serious reporter forced to take...
“A Christmas Frequency” stars Denise Richards as a morning radio show host, who is struggling in both her personal life — secretly separating from her husband (James Hyde) — and at work, with the ratings of her show dropping. When she’s set up on a series of blind dates as a way to save the show, things get interesting with one man (Jonathan Stoddard) is both a man she’s actually interested in and someone who has also applied to be her date.
“A Christmas Frequency is directed by Lindsay Hartley. Vanessa Shapiro executive produces; producers are Richard Switzer and Dave Hickey.
“Reporting for Christmas” follows Mary (Tamara Feldman), a serious reporter forced to take...
- 10/11/2023
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
Denise Richards is set to star as a radio host looking for a date to the company Christmas party in holiday movie “A Christmas Frequency,” Variety can reveal.
Veteran director Lindsay Hartley (“The Romeo and Juliet Murders”) will helm the project, which is being produced by Nicely Entertainment.
Ansley Gordon (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), who wrote the screenplay for “A Christmas Frequency,” will also star in the movie alongside Johnathan Stoddard (“Furry Little Christmas”) and James Hyde (“The Young and the Restless”).
In the film, which is already in production, Richards stars as morning radio show host Brooke Walkins, who is not only secretly separating from her husband Todd (Hyde) but haemorrhaging ratings on her show. When she finds out the show is being axed, Brooke’s producer Kenzie Parker (Gordon) has the bright idea of setting up the host with a series of blind dates live on air to help Brooke...
Veteran director Lindsay Hartley (“The Romeo and Juliet Murders”) will helm the project, which is being produced by Nicely Entertainment.
Ansley Gordon (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), who wrote the screenplay for “A Christmas Frequency,” will also star in the movie alongside Johnathan Stoddard (“Furry Little Christmas”) and James Hyde (“The Young and the Restless”).
In the film, which is already in production, Richards stars as morning radio show host Brooke Walkins, who is not only secretly separating from her husband Todd (Hyde) but haemorrhaging ratings on her show. When she finds out the show is being axed, Brooke’s producer Kenzie Parker (Gordon) has the bright idea of setting up the host with a series of blind dates live on air to help Brooke...
- 5/16/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire) has joined the cast of director Josh Webber’s holiday pic Athena Saves Christmas, with Christina Cooper coming aboard as producer.
The film follows Samuel (Paxton Kubitz) and his friends, along with Sam’s trusted dog Athena, on an adventure of a lifetime, as they match wits with a mob boss and look to solve a series of riddles, in order to save Christmas for their town.
Webber is also producing for Webber Films, alongside Michael Girgenti, Henry Penzi and Cooper. Tony Mercedes and Tamara Johnson are serving as EPs, with Robert Miano (Fast & Furious), Richard Portnow (Hitchcock), Mars Callahan, Glenn Plummer, Kaitlyn Raymond and more rounding out the cast. Gooding Jr. is repped by manager and attorney Peter Toumbekis.
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Liam O’Donnell, Chad Law
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The film follows Samuel (Paxton Kubitz) and his friends, along with Sam’s trusted dog Athena, on an adventure of a lifetime, as they match wits with a mob boss and look to solve a series of riddles, in order to save Christmas for their town.
Webber is also producing for Webber Films, alongside Michael Girgenti, Henry Penzi and Cooper. Tony Mercedes and Tamara Johnson are serving as EPs, with Robert Miano (Fast & Furious), Richard Portnow (Hitchcock), Mars Callahan, Glenn Plummer, Kaitlyn Raymond and more rounding out the cast. Gooding Jr. is repped by manager and attorney Peter Toumbekis.
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Liam O’Donnell, Chad Law
Exclusive: Liam O’Donnell (XYZ Films’ Skyline franchise) has been tapped to direct the action-thriller Triggermen...
- 3/3/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicely Entertainment has tapped David Hickey (pictured above right) as its first head of production to oversee its new mini studio in Arizona, CEO Vanessa Shapiro revealed on Wednesday.
Hickey, who was most recently creative executive producer at Canada’s Real One Entertainment, will report to Shapiro and oversee operations and productions including “Mysteries of the Heart,” starring Ansley Gordon (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), pictured above left.
“Mysteries of the Heart” is the first film on Nicely’s 2023 Arizona production slate.
L.A.-based Nicely, which launched three years ago as an independent production and distribution studio, has released over 50 movies since its inception.
Hickey has 25 years experience and over 90 development and production credits, including A&e movies including “Here Kills the Bride” and “Crazy Neighbourhood Moms.”
“In addition to our distribution operations in Los Angeles and Paris, we are focused in 2023 in building a preeminent mini-studio in Arizona, with a goal...
Hickey, who was most recently creative executive producer at Canada’s Real One Entertainment, will report to Shapiro and oversee operations and productions including “Mysteries of the Heart,” starring Ansley Gordon (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), pictured above left.
“Mysteries of the Heart” is the first film on Nicely’s 2023 Arizona production slate.
L.A.-based Nicely, which launched three years ago as an independent production and distribution studio, has released over 50 movies since its inception.
Hickey has 25 years experience and over 90 development and production credits, including A&e movies including “Here Kills the Bride” and “Crazy Neighbourhood Moms.”
“In addition to our distribution operations in Los Angeles and Paris, we are focused in 2023 in building a preeminent mini-studio in Arizona, with a goal...
- 2/1/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s lasting legacy on cinema was embodied by the thousands of tributes to the late “Breathless” director.
Godard died at age 91 of assisted suicide in Switzerland, where the elective injection is legal. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted,” a Godard family member told press outlets. The director’s longtime legal advisor Patrick Jeannere confirmed to The New York Times that Godard suffered from “multiple disabling pathologies.”
“He could not live like you and me, so he decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, ‘Now, it’s enough,’” Jeanneret said.
Fellow directors, film critics, and actors paid tribute to the late “Band of Outsiders” icon.
French President Emmanuel Macron honored Godard in a social media statement, writing, “It was like an appearance in French cinema. Then he became a master. Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers,...
Godard died at age 91 of assisted suicide in Switzerland, where the elective injection is legal. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted,” a Godard family member told press outlets. The director’s longtime legal advisor Patrick Jeannere confirmed to The New York Times that Godard suffered from “multiple disabling pathologies.”
“He could not live like you and me, so he decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, ‘Now, it’s enough,’” Jeanneret said.
Fellow directors, film critics, and actors paid tribute to the late “Band of Outsiders” icon.
French President Emmanuel Macron honored Godard in a social media statement, writing, “It was like an appearance in French cinema. Then he became a master. Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Ronny Sen was born in Silchar in Assam in a big joint family in 1986. By the time he was 2 or 3 years old, his father got transferred and they moved to Salt Lake City in Calcutta where he still lives and works. He was shooting photographs and some videos until his film debut, “Cat Sticks“. According to his words, “I was mostly perusing art you can say, which is still something I am more committed to.”
Cat Sticks is your feature debut. How it felt making it?
It felt like a great adventure. Also, because it is in a way biological and you feel it in the stomach. There was some apprehension in the beginning but slowly things kept falling into place. Filmmaking is solving problems on a daily basis while you are constantly on the move, travelling from one scene to the other or from one process to the next...
Cat Sticks is your feature debut. How it felt making it?
It felt like a great adventure. Also, because it is in a way biological and you feel it in the stomach. There was some apprehension in the beginning but slowly things kept falling into place. Filmmaking is solving problems on a daily basis while you are constantly on the move, travelling from one scene to the other or from one process to the next...
- 5/6/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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