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Andy Reid, Mecole Hardman, and more to feature in ‘Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story’

Andy Reid, Mecole Hardman, and more to feature in ‘Holiday Touchdown: A #Chiefs Love Story’ | @EdEastonJr

The Kansas City Chiefs recently announced their collaboration with Hallmark, Skydance Sports, and the NFL on the film ‘Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,’ which is part of their 15th annual Countdown to Christmas programming event. A recent update has revealed that team members will feature in the production and details on its highly anticipated plot.

Hunter King plays Alana Higman, who’s sure that her family’s lifelong history as Kansas City Chiefs superfans makes them a frontrunner to win the team’s “Fan of the Year” contest. Tyler Hynes stars as Derrick, Director of Fan Engagement, who evaluates how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists. It’s clear there’s a spark between the pair after spending time together, but when her grandfather’s (Ed Begley Jr.) vintage Chiefs, good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate and destiny and even questions her future with Derrick.

Movie production commenced in July. Filming occurred in and around Kansas City locations, highlighting the iconic GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. This is the first time the Chiefs’ home stadium has been used as a filming location in a Hallmark movie.

“After we announced the movie, fan excitement reached a fever pitch,” said Samantha DiPippo, Senior Vice President of programming at Hallmark Media, in a statement. “With Coach Reid, Trey Smith, Mecole Hardman Jr., Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and George Karlaftis getting into the game with us, viewers will have even more to cheer about.”

The veteran actor in the movie group of Chiefs is Reid, who has recently become popular in commercials. Fans must wait until the holiday season to see how the defending champions help deliver the magic of love and football.

Chiefs team up with Hallmark for a new Christmas movie premiering this winter

Kansas City #Chiefs team up with Hallmark for a new Christmas movie premiering this winter | @EdEastonJr

The Kansas City Chiefs will be in the holiday spirit for the production of an upcoming Christmas movie. In collaboration with Hallmark, Skydance Sports, and the NFL, the film is titled ‘Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story’ and is part of their 15th annual Countdown to Christmas programming event.

The holiday love story stars Tyler Hynes, Hunter King, and Ed Begley Jr.. It is set to begin production next month, filming in GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium and Kansas City, Missouri, locations. Chiefs president Mark Donovan released a statement on the upcoming film production.

“We are honored to partner with Hallmark on a project as unique as this,” said Donovan. “As a club, we pride ourselves on exploring new ways to grow our brand, as well as connect with new audiences. This partnership unites two passionate fanbases and gives us an opportunity to show Chiefs Kingdom’s energy and tradition on one of the most-watched channels during the holiday season.”

Hallmark chief brand officer Darren Abbott believes the collaboration will highlight the franchise and spirit of the holiday season.

“With Hallmark and the Kansas City Chiefs both homegrown, rooted in values, tradition, and community, there is a special alchemy between these two iconic organizations,” said Abbott. “By blending the warmth of Hallmark storytelling with the excitement of professional football, we are thrilled to give audiences a front-row seat to this community’s spirit, rich traditions, and passionate fans that define Kansas City, all wrapped up in the comforting and uplifting Hallmark way.”

The Chiefs hope for another successful season as they prepare to defend their title and secure the three-peat. A warm holiday movie on the horizon and another Super Bowl will keep Chiefs Kingdom joyful during the holidays.

Hallmark Channel is actually making a Chiefs-themed Christmas movie

Hallmark Channel is making a Chiefs-themed Christmas movie.

Just in case you didn’t have enough of the Kansas City Chiefs in your life, the Hallmark Channel will bring the team to your holiday programming with a new Christmas film.

Oh yes, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story will begin production next month in Kansas City and will give the Hallmark Christmas movie an NFL spin. 

Tyler Hynes, Hunter King and Ed Begley Jr. are billed as stars for the new Hallmark Christmas project, slated to be the first Hallmark film to ever shoot at the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium.

Per a release, the plot for the film sounds, well, exactly how you figure it might.

In Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, Alana Higman (King) is sure that her family’s lifelong history as Kansas City Chiefs superfans makes them a frontrunner to win the team’s “Fan of the Year” contest. Derrick (Hynes), Director of Fan Engagement, is tasked with evaluating how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists. As the pair spends time together, it’s clear there’s a spark between them but when her grandfathers (Begley Jr.) vintage Chiefs, good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate, destiny and even questions her future with Derrick – unless, that is, a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.

There’s no word if Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelce will make cameo appearances in the film, but the release says we should get the movie holiday season on Hallmark Channel.

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Quiz: Are these 2023 Hallmark Christmas movie titles real or made-up?

Can you spot the made-up movie title amid the real ones for the 2023 season?

It’s the most magical time of the year. The temp is dropping, the pumpkin spice is everywhere and the leaves are turning. As we get closer to the holidays it also means one very important thing: Hallmark Movie season.

For the uninitiated, Hallmark Movies live and thrive on the Hallmark Channel and feature a rotating cast of familiar faces — Lacey Chabert! Wes Brown! Candace Cameron Bure! — that tell stories of love and romance that overflow with sickly sweet glances and longing stares.

Often times, the movies feature one character returning to or visiting a cute, Christmas-y town where one works as a journalist or baker and one wears a lot of flannel.

With Hallmark releasing the titles of the 42 (!!) new Christmas movies, let’s play a fun game. We asked ChatGPT for 42 AI-generated titles of Hallmark movies, and put one of those in with three real titles from 2023’s fall slate. Can you pick out the made-up title?

This woman might be living a real-life Hallmark movie and we’re too invested to look away

Thankfully, we have Twitter to take us on this journey with her.

Stories like this are often reserved for saccharine romantic comedies with unrealistic plots. A beautiful person just happens to encounter another beautiful person at the airport. They have a meet-cute, they part ways, something reconnects them in an unexpected fashion, their lives are changed forever. (Usually someone is wearing flannel and runs a super cute bakery and/or Christmas tree farm.)

But it never actually happens in real life — right?

Well it did for literary agent Emily Forney. En route to Los Angeles on April 26, Forney found herself sitting next to “the most gorgeous man” she had ever seen. He not only had two books with him, he was chowing down on a morning steak burrito, leading Forney to take her story to Twitter to declare she might have found her “soulmate.”

From there, she takes us on a Twitter journey about the mystery man that would make Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan melt.