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Photo: Stanley Weber, Bethany Joy Lenz Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Eric Caro

Hallmark Channel’s Passport to Love programming event is coming in June, including the movie, Savoring Paris. Filmed partly in the City of Light, Bethany Joy Lenz, Stanley Weber and Ben Wiggins star in a story of love, fashion and food. Read on to find out more about the movie and its stars, view beautiful images captured on the film set and a trailer.

Savoring Paris on Hallmark Channel Photo: Lucy Newman-Williams, Bethany Joy Lenz, Ben Wiggins Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Elena Nenkova

Part of Hallmark’s Passport to Love programming event, the new, original movie, Savoring Paris was partly filmed in the iconic City of Light. According to the official synopsis, the movie tells the story of Ella (Lenz), a burned-out executive of an American food change. She realizes the happiest time of her life during a trip to Paris after college.

Prime Video is serving up drama this week when the new British series “Fifteen-Love” makes its debut on the streamer. Starring Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Turner, the six-parter follows former tennis prodigy Justine Pearce who makes an allegation against her former coach five years after an injury puts a stop to her career. All six episodes of “Fifteen-Love” will premiere on Prime Video globally on Friday, July 21. You can watch Fifteen-Love: Season 1 with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video.

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The new drama portrays Justine Pearce, a one-time former rising tennis star whose sudden success at 17 took her and her coach, Glenn Lapthorn, to the quarterfinals ofthe French Open.

Now, five years after an...

"All it takes is one person to believe her." Amazon has unveiled a first look trailer for a new British crime drama series titled Fifteen-Love, without a streaming date announced yet. This seems to be a response to Luca Guadagnino's Challengers, which just got its own trailer yesterday, another romantic drama involving a young woman who's a tennis prodigy. Is this meant to be counter-programming? Or just another tennis-based story? Set in the world of elite tennis, the drama portrays Justine as a one-time rising star whose sudden success at 17 took her and her coach Glenn Lapthorn to the quarterfinals of the French Open. The former tennis prodigy makes an allegation against her former coach five years after an injury puts a stop to her career. Ella Lily Hyland stars as Justine, with Aidan Turner as her coach, plus Anna Chancellor, Jessica Darrow, Tom Varey, Lorenzo Richelmy, Manon Azem,...

“Poldark’s” Aidan Turner will star as a maverick coach guiding an up-and-coming tennis player (Ella Lily Hyland) to stardom in Amazon Prime Video’s new U.K. drama “Fifteen-Love.”

Created by Hania Elkington, “Fifteen-Love” explores the fictional story of Justine Pearce (Hyland), a young sports prodigy, who enjoyed a meteoric rise in the world of Grand Slam Tennis, aided by her coach Glenn Lapthorn (Turner), with whom she shared an intense rapport.

Together they reached the semi-final of the French Open but Justine’s dream was cut brutally short by a devastating injury and the end of her professional career. Five years on, now aged 22, Justine has a new life as a therapist at her old tennis academy Longwood, but when she makes an explosive allegation against her former coach, everyone is forced to reconsider what they thought they knew about Justine and Glenn’s past success.

Alongside Turner and Hyland,...

Festival midnight slates are always teeming with Z-grade splatter comedies like “Girls with Balls,” which offer the uncomplicated pleasure of attractive young people fighting for their lives in the great outdoors. But first-time director Olivier Afonso, a skilled makeup-effects artist on such films as “Raw” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” could have complicated his hillbillies-versus-athletes scenario a little more than he has. Is there a scene where members of a women’s volleyball team spike balls into the faces of their adversaries? Of course. Yet that’s about as far as the conceit takes this chaotic, toothless, unfunny Gallic twist on “The Most Dangerous Game,” and it’s not even enough to reach 80 minutes. Netflix has served it up for less discriminate genre fans, however, who are advised to bypass the default dubbed version and watch it in French with subtitles.

The extreme French horror movement of the...

When a film announces itself with such a deliberately and unapologetically brash title, it’s clear the filmmakers have probably tried their very best to entertain the intended audience of trash cinema connoisseurs. Thankfully, this knockabout horror/comedy – which is something akin to the characters of Bring It On taking a Wrong Turn – more or less delivers on that promise, but there’s also a fun take on female empowerment and resourcefulness amongst the lashings of gloopy splatter. And any film of this kind which begins with a country singer setting the scene through a ditty – who then periodically crops throughout to comment on the action – is undeniably worth a watch.

After a fun, whizzy Edgar Wright-like montage introducing us to the highly-competitive, merciless netball team The Falcons, we’re soon whipped away to the French countryside as the team make their way to another match. Rattling along in an Rv,...