Lifetime announced its next Christmas movie today: A Very Merry Beauty Salon, executive produced by and starring Tia Mowry (Miracle in Motor City, A Very Vintage Christmas).
Tia will reunite with a special actor from her days on the sitcom, "Sister, Sister"!
See all of the details below...
Press Release via Lifetime:
LOS ANGELES, CA (September 25, 2024) - It’s beginning to look a lot more like Christmas as Lifetime announces the greenlight of the new original movie, A Very Merry Beauty Salon, executive produced and starring Tia Mowry. RonReaco Lee, Donna Biscoe, Cocoa Brown and Ashli Auguillard are also set to star in A Very Merry Beauty Salon. The movie follows the lively women of an Atlanta beauty salon owned by Sienna (Mowry) who must prepare for the annual Tinsel Ball, but is Sienna also prepared for love when Lawrence (Lee) arrives to town? This marks a reunion for Mowry and Lee who previously starred together in the iconic sitcom Sister, Sister. This marks the final installment of Mowry’s three-picture deal with the network.
In A Very Merry Beauty Salon, Sienna, the owner of the bustling Divine Beauty Salon is preparing for Atlanta’s Tinsel Ball, where she will be honored for her charitable work in the community. The annual event takes a glamourous turn with the arrival of Lawrence, a charismatic CEO whose family’s wine brand is now co-sponsoring the Ball. Sparks fly between them, but Sienna’s mother Georgia (Donna Biscoe) who is the head of the Ball’s committee, worries his involvement may ruin the event’s traditions. As Sienna and Lawrence are unexpectedly paired as dance partners, romance blooms, setting the stage for a steamy romance that challenges Sienna’s thoughts on love and family and makes this year’s Tinsel Ball the most memorable yet.
Cocoa Brown and Ashli Auguillard star as Miss Kimmy and Ella, hairdressers at the salon.
A Very Merry Beauty Salon is produced for Lifetime by FOX Entertainment Studios’ (FES) Mar Vista Entertainment in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment. Adam Shepard, Larry Grimaldi, Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew executive produce for FES. Richard Foster and Chet Fenster executive produce for GroupM Motion Entertainment. Tia Mowry, Adam Griffin and Mychael Chinn also executive produce. Bobby Yan directs from a script by Tara Knight.
A Very Merry Beauty Salon joins the slate of the previous announced movies including FES’ The Holiday Junkie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, as well as Christmas in the Spotlight starring Jessica Lord, Laith Wallschleger, Jennie Mai and Haley Kalil. Lifetime’s full slate will be announced in the coming weeks.
Mowry is represented by UTA, Vault Entertainment, True Public Relations and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan.
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The press release above mentions that this movie project marks the final installment of Tia Mowry’s three-picture deal with the network. At this point, we don't know if they will sign Tia to do more movies. That decision will likely be based on the ratings of this Christmas movie.
You may have seen Tia Mowry's name in the press recently since she mentioned in her We TV docuseries, Tia Mowry: My Next Act, that she wishes she and her twin sister, Tamera, "were still close."
I know a lot of fans were concerned about the sister's relationship, which is probably why Tia released a statement to US Weekly to clarify, "I feel like as we grow up, we all start our own families, and their children need to lean on them. We begin to take on new roles and responsibilities within our lives. That is what that was all about."
Tia further explained that they are also physically distant, making it harder to stay close.
Hopefully, through all of this, the sisters can find time again for one another. Tamera also has a new Christmas movie premiering on the Hallmark Channel this holiday season.
Have a Merry Day!
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A mini Good Witch reunion will be taking place at Christmas Con NJ! (as just reported on Thats4Ent). -Maria
ReplyDeleteI’ll be tuning into this movie, hopefully it is clean. Lifetime has turned CRAZY over the years, but they have some gems that I have loved and try to catch every year like “A Christmas in Tennessee”, so I’ll give this one a try. I do really enjoy the mowry twins in their Christmas movies. My favorite with Tia was Mistle-Tones and my favorite with Tamera was “Christmas Comes Twice”
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I just wish they'd get on with it and announce their Christmas programme then we'd know exactly where we stand - they're the last major player to declare.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they'll have 3 original movies and the rest will be acquisitions mostly from Reel One.
At that stage just have to watch to see if any other Christmas movies filmed appear on Streaming Channels.
Looks like that is the last movie Tia Mowri is contracted to do for Lifetime - Florence
Tia Mowry was in Hallmark movie(s with her Twin Sister; Tamera Mowry - separate movies
ReplyDeleteTia on Lifetime
Tamera on Hallmark