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We need a little Christmas, and Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown are back to haul out the holly to get us ready for the season with a sequel to last year’s hit movie, Haul Out the Holly, which premiered during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.

In honor of Christmas in July, Hallmark Channel shared a first look clip from Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up that is set to premiere during this year’s festive programming slate. In the clip, we see Emily (Chabert) and Jared (Brown) surrounded by their neighbors, played by Ellen Travolta, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman and Laura Wardle, as they react to a neighbor moving out during their annual Christmas festivities.

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Christmas Con has spread holiday cheer to both the West Coast and the East Coast for the past few years, but in 2023… there’s no place like Christmas in the Midwest! That’s 4 Entertainment has announced that they will bring their beloved holiday convention filled with festive vendors, audience-engaging seasonal games and the opportunity to see your favorite Christmas movie stars up close when Christmas Con comes to Kansas in June—hosted by Jonathan Bennett!

The event will run from June 9-11 at Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park—just minutes from the heart of Kansas City! Tickets are currently on sale at Thats4Entertainment.com.

Check out the full list of celebrity guests who are currently scheduled to attend the Kansas event!*

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Despite a lot of setbacks due to the pandemic, Christmas Con NJ finally went off without a hitch last December for the second annual installment of the holiday event that brought Christmas movie fans, the stars, and festive activities together in one place to celebrate the ‘most wonderful time of the year’ — and it’s coming back this year for round three of holiday cheer!

That’s 4 Entertainment announced the first 10 celebrity guests out of the 30 who will be in attendance for Christmas Con New Jersey* when it takes place this December 9, 10 and 11th at the NJ Expo Center in Edison, NJ, including returning host Jonathan Bennett and headliner Lacey Chabert.  Show hours are: Friday 12/9 – 2pm-8pm, Saturday 12/10 – 10am-6pm and Sunday, 12/11 – 10am-5pm.  Check out the first batch of stars announced below!

UPDATE (9/18/22): We have updated the attendance list with a plethora of celebrities who will be taking part in the event!

UPDATE (11/7/22): Kimberley Sustad and Kristoffer Polaha had to cancel their appearances at Christmas Con: New Jersey 2022 due to scheduling conflicts.

UPDATE (11/10/22): Victor Webster had to cancel his appearance at Christmas Con: New Jersey 2022 due to scheduling conflicts. Jessica Lowndes and Benjamin Ayres have been added to the attendance list!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE (10/02/20): That’s 4 Entertainment announced today that they have officially postponed the Christmas Con New Jersey event to next year due to the pandemic. The new dates are December 10th-12th of 2021. Refunds are available if you can not make the event next year, but if you can, hold onto your tickets as they will be valid for the new dates!

FYI: The California event has also been postponed.

Christmas Con is coming back to New Jersey! Last year That’s 4 Entertainment held the the first-ever Christmas convention that featured holiday fun along with many of your favorite stars from Christmas movies and other popular creatives in the festive field. The LollyChristmas.com team was able to attend, and we had a merry blast!

Many thought with the announcement of Christmas Con: California that the event would be moving location entirely, but due to the success, Christmas Con will be returning to the Garden State this December with several returning stars plus additional fan-favorites for a weekend filled with cheer.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE (8/27/20): There was a post on the Fall Into Christmas Instagram page a few weeks ago considering postponing the event until 2021 due to current events, but that post has since disappeared — as well as the official Facebook page. The event holders announced today that the convention has officially been postponed until 2021 and has been renamed Spring Into Christmas!

Read their statement by clicking here.

We began seeing posts on social media late last fall regarding an upcoming Christmas in July convention that would happen during the summer of 2020—fast forward a few months and there’s a lineup of great celebrity guests as well as a major date change!

The Christmas in July convention is now Silver Screens Events’ Fall Into Christmas Convention, which will take place from October 2nd-4th* at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. The event organizers made an announcement this week that due to feedback and the current global COVID-19 health crisis, they felt it to be a wise decision to move the event to the fall.

There’s a lot to look forward to—from professional photo-ops with your favorite Christmas movie stars to contests, celebrity Q&A sessions, parties, games, and a special evening Christmas banquet!

Here’s hoping things are looking much more positive around the world come October.

Check out the list of celebrity guests scheduled to appear below!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE (7/14/20): That’s 4 Entertainment announced on Twitter on 7/11/20 that they have officially postponed the Christmas Con California event to next year due to the pandemic. The new dates are June 25th-27th of 2021. Refunds are available if you can not make the event next summer, but if you can, hold onto your tickets as they will be valid for the new dates!

NEW UPDATE ALERT (04/05/21):  With June 2021 being too soon for large gatherings in California, That’s 4 Entertainment announced that they will have to once again push Christmas Con back another year.  The company posted today on Instagram that Christmas Con: California will now take place August, 5th-7th of 2022!

If you weren’t able to attend That’s 4 Entertainment’s first Christmas Con in New Jersey last year, and wanted to attend but you lived on the West Coast, you’ll be excited to know that Christmas Con is coming to California! The event was originally scheduled to be a fun-in-the-sun Christmas in July convention, but due to the current COVID-19 global crisis, they had to push the event to a later date.

Join your favorite actors from beloved Christmas movies (including a whole slew of Hallmark Channel stars!) for a jolly weekend of professional photo ops, special Q&As, and many more surprises, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California on August, 5, 6 & 7 of 2022*!

“Christmas Made to Order” star and “Cake Wars” host, Jonathan Bennett, will return as the official host, and his former “Mean Girls” co-star (and Hallmark Christmas movie princess), Lacey Chabert, will be the official headliner. Many of the actors that attended the 2019 event will also take part in the California event, so if you missed out on seeing them last year, here’s another chance!

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Rachel Boston and Wes Brown star in Hallmark Channel’s “Check Inn to Christmas” as a new couple that must unite their rival families during Crestridge’s Centennial Christmas celebration to save their family inns from a chain resort.

In the promotional photos, Rachel wears the Rachel Parcell Bell Sleeve Sheath Dress, which is still available for $135 at RachelParcell.com! I absolutely love the bell sleeves and scarlet red shade.

(Update on 12/5/19) – Nancy Cannon worked as the costume designer on the film, and kindly shared the scoop on some other items worn in the movie that I’ve worked into this post!

THE CHRISTMAS CONTRACT (left), ROAD TO CHRISTMAS (right) | Photos: Lifetime/Crown Media

If you loved the It’s a Wonderful Lifetime movie lineup last year, you’ll be thrilled to learn that two of the films will be part of a DVD collection, set to be released in November!

Lifetime’s Down Home Christmas 5 Movie Collection will include “The Christmas Contract” (2019) — starring former “One Tree Hill” stars Hilarie Burton, Robert Buckley, Antwon Tanner and Danneel Ackles and “Hometown Christmas” (2019) — starring another OTH alum Stephen Colletti as well as “7th Heaven” star Beverley Mitchell.

Additionally, the set will include another Burton film 2013’s “Christmas on the Bayou” in which she stars opposite another OTHer Tyler Hilton, “Wish Upon A Christmas” (2015) — starring Larisa Oleynik, Aaron Ashmore, and Alan Thicke, and “Christmas in Mississippi” (2017) featuring yet another OTH alum Jana Kramer alongside Wes Brown.

L-R: Wes Brown, Rachel Boston, Alicia Witt and Kristoffer Polaha. Credit: Crown Media

I have the biggest Christmas movie announcement yet for you today!

During Crown Media Family Networks’ bi-annual Television Critics Summer Press Tour, eleven new original movie titles were announced for Hallmark’s upcoming holiday programming slate, yes, you read that correctly — 11 new movies were revealed!

“Each year our holiday movie slates get bigger, the movies get better, and the ratings grow stronger and I have no doubt that this will prove to be the most successful season yet,” said Michelle Vicary, EVP, Programming & Network Publicity.

“We are so fortunate to work with such incredible talent –from the actors, to the writers, to the director and producers –who bring our signature holiday movies to life and have been instrumental in establishing Crown Media as the leader in compelling, top-quality holiday entertainment.”

Get the full scoop below of everything we new about these upcoming features. Expect to see many of your network favorites as well as a few fresh faces you’re sure to fall in love with.

Pictured: Grenier (left) and Doubleday (right). / Credit: Crown Media, FOX

It looks like production is underway for the third installment of Hallmark’s Graceland film series! Last year, Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown starred in “Christmas at Graceland” as exes who reunite during the holiday season at Elvis Presley’s former home, Graceland. The success of the film paved the way for a sequel, “Wedding at Graceland”, which Pickler and Brown returned for; it premiere last month during Hallmark Channel’s June Weddings programming.

While it was previously speculated that the third film would reunite Pickler and Brown once again, it appears that Adrian Grenier (HBO’s “Entourage”) and Kaitlin Doubleday (FOX’s “Empire”) will lead “Christmas at Graceland 2”, which will have an original story and not be a continuance of the previous installments.

Commercial Appeal has announced that filming will begin on July 18 and wrap in August, according to Ryan Westheimer, the film’s co-producer who served in the same role for the previous films.

The plot of this new movie will find Doubleday’s character as a Graceland tour guide who meets Griener’s character, who asks her to nanny his three children. She accepts and stays at his guesthouse and, as you can imagine, the pair develop romantic feelings for one another.

It is Hallmark, after all.

“Christmas at Graceland 2” will premiere on Hallmark Channel during the annual Countdown to Christmas, which is set to kick off the last week of October.

Stay merry!