Lacey to star in new movie for ABC Family channel!

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"ABC Family Slates 2 New Flicks"

By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/15/2005 4:55:00 PM

Hot off rolling out a pair of scripted series this summer – its first ever, ABC Family will keep the originals coming with two movies later this year.

If Only tells the story of a couple who get to re-live a day in which they fought, leading to the girlfriend’s death in a car accident.


The film, directed by Hope & Faith’s Gil Junger, will star Jennifer Love Hewitt and Paul Nicholls (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) and premiere Jan. 2006.

Same as it Never Was (working title) chronicles a self-absorbed college student saddled with the responsibility of raising her step-sister when her father and step-mother die.

The film will star Hewitt's Party of Five cast-mate, Lacey Chabert, and Jake in Progress’s Wendie Malick and is directed by The O.C.’s Steve Robman. Production begins later this month in New Orleans and the film is slated for April 2006.

ABC Family averaged 985,000 total viewers in prime during second quarter, up 6 percent from the year before.

The first of its two summer scripted series, Wildfire, bowed in June. The second, Beautiful People, is set for August. Other summer offerings include Venus & Serena: For Real, a reality series on the tennis star sisters set to premiere July 20.

Originally posted by MCfan4eaa:
Same as it Never Was (working title) chronicles a self-absorbed college student saddled with the responsibility of raising her step-sister when her father and step-mother die.

The film will star Hewitt's Party of Five cast-mate, Lacey Chabert, and Jake in Progress’s Wendie Malick and is directed by The O.C.’s Steve Robman. Production begins later this month in New Orleans and the film is slated for April 2006.

So Lacey is going from playing JLH's faux sister-in-law in PO5 to playing her stepsister? Weird. As hot as JLH is, she been a show-killer since PO5.

Hmm, since they're not playing actual siblings maybe we can see the frustration and antagonism of a step family relationship work itself out in a little girl on girl action in the older sister's dorm room. [img]graemlins/yummy.gif[/img]

[Shaun]

I don't believe JLH is in the movie with Lacey. JLH will be starring in her own ABC family movie. They just pointed out in the article that Lacey and JLH were former cast-mates.

I don't think so either but it will be cool to see lacey in a new flick [img]smile.gif[/img]

The JLH film is called "If Only", and it was filmed in 2004. It was released in other countries, but couldn't find US distribution... I have it on DVD, and it is really an amazing movie. It saddens me that its US release is on ABC family, but at least it is having a US release...

So, no, Lacey and Jennifer are not in the same film, lol, but I am glad Lacey is starring in a movie. It sounds like it will be good!

Production begins later this month in New Orleans and the film is slated for April 2006

What's sad is I can't find a single clue on any N.O. website. Noone has announced it yet or anywthing. If this is indeed true, then I MUST do some *serious* investigating.

Originally posted by Shaun:
I don't believe JLH is in the movie with Lacey. JLH will be starring in her own ABC family movie. They just pointed out in the article that Lacey and JLH were former cast-mates.

I stand corrected. I wonder who will be playing her stepsister?

[superboy]

kewl

Found another site with info about the movie...

ABC FAMILY ORIGINAL MOVIES (ABC Family, New!) - The cable channel has provided details for three of its upcoming originals, all of which are set to air in early 2006. January will see the premiere of "If Only," about a British man who gets a second chance after his girlfriend is killed in a taxi crash before his eyes following a lovers' spat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls and Tom Wilkinson star. Next up in March is "Fallen," about an 18-year-old boy who hits his birthday and realizes he's a fallen angel. No casting information has been released however. Finally there's Lacey Chabert and Wendie Malick in "Same As It Ever Was" (air date TBA), about a self-absorbed college student who must raise her stepsister, following the death of her father and stepmother.


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This site also has a bit about the film:

For the summer, the network will offer three original movies. The first, Fallen, is the story of a man who turns 18 and discovers he is an avenging angel. The second, Same as it Never Was, stars Lacey Chabert and Wendie Mallack, and is a story of a young woman who finds herself the guardian of her young stepsister, following the death of her father. Third is If Only, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Paul Nicholls, and has to do with second chances in life.

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The old article said that the first shooting of her movie was supposed to be here in New Orleans. I checked around online and through other sources with no such luck. Looks like I'll have to check around for *something*

Found another mention of this film...

Also from WB's "One Tree Hill" is Amanda Baker, who joins the cast as the sporty and ambitious Callah O'Connell. Baker is fresh off a role on an ABC Family movie titled "Same As It Never Was" that will have the up-and-coming actress playing the best friend of Lacey Chabert ("Party of Five," "Mean Girls").

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thanks for the link [img]smile.gif[/img]

[superboy]

thanks again