12 Heartwarming Nicely Entertainment Movies
Will Stream on Newly-Rebranded Women's Entertainment Channel
Starting in November
LOS
ANGELES, Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Cineverse (NASDAQ: CNVS), a next-gen entertainment studio,
today announced a new lineup of holiday and romance movies
premiering on The Dove Channel, its women's entertainment streaming
channel. The collection includes 12 heartwarming films from Nicely
Entertainment, filled with festive cheer, romance and the magic of
the holiday season, and builds off of Dove's recent record-breaking
success with holiday entertainment. Propelled by the Christmas in
July stunt, Dove recorded its best monthly viewership ever in
July 2024, with 98 million minutes
consumed on the channel.
The movies will premiere on the Dove subscription video on
demand (SVOD) apps, starting on November
29 and running through the end of the year. Titles from the
lineup will also be available on Dove's AVOD tier and/or on the
linear Dove free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST)
channel.
The Dove Channel has also officially rebranded as the streaming
destination for heartwarming stories, offering viewers an escape to
a world of romance and excitement, with the new tagline of "Live.
Laugh. Dove." Featuring content ranging from light-hearted
romances to inspiring dramas to holiday entertainment, Dove is
"your home away from home" with a library of 200 romance and
Christmas-themed movies.
"This winter, we're excited to give fans the gift of a holiday
season overflowing with love and roll out Dove's new look and feel
to all our platform partners, leading up to our 'Kissmas' Mega
Marathon on Christmas Day," said Sara
Burns, Cineverse Senior Vice President of Programming and
Strategy. "As we continue to focus on bringing these high-quality
stories to Dove, we anticipate closing out 2024 up 37% year over
year in minutes watched across platforms."
Cineverse licensed these 12 fun-filled movies from fast-growing
holiday and romance distribution firm Nicely Entertainment. The
deal was brokered by Nicely's EVP of Distribution and
Co-Productions Scott Kirkpatrick.
Nicely's CEO and Founder, Vanessa
Shapiro, commented: "We're thrilled to see 12 Nicely
Entertainment titles leading Cinevere's owned and operated Dove
Channel this holiday season. As producers and distributors of
female driven 'feel-good' entertainment, The Dove Channel is a
natural fit for our content and we're excited to see Cineverse's
continued expansion."
The titles will premiere on Dove as follows:
- A Perfect Christmas Pairing (Nov.
29): Top chef Grace collides with a worldly travel writer
while hiding out at her family's Winery and BnB over the holidays,
where sparks fly with family traditions and blow up her best laid
plans.
- Christmas Lover's Anonymous (Nov. 29): A best-selling author hides her love
for Christmas after an ugly breakup, but secretly opens her heart
again when she joins a website for Christmas fanatics called
"Christmas Lovers Anonymous."
- A Christmas Vintage (Dec.
6): Siblings from rival wineries try to deceive the most
difficult one of them into falling in love so that he'll stop being
so uptight. Based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
- A Christmas Wish in Hudson (Dec.
6): When an unlucky-in-love software developer travels to a
small town in Wisconsin to meet a
widowed firefighter she saw compete on a TV cooking show, she gets
help from his daughter who believes she's the one for her dad.
- A Very Corgi Christmas (Dec.
13): Lauren Bradley, a single
mom, runs into fellow single dad Ben who enlists her help in taking
care of a cute corgi puppy he plans to give his daughter at
Christmas.
- Christmas at the Amish Bakery (Dec. 13): New
York book editor Sarah heads back to her Amish family farm.
With the help of a handsome local outsider, Dean, a friend of the
Amish, they hope to save her family's bakery.
- Holiday for Hire (Dec.
20): Katie hires Josh to pretend to be her former boyfriend
"Dean" who unexpectedly broke up with her right before they were
going to her home for the holidays.
- The Christmas Checklist (Dec. 20): A grieving daughter discovers a red
envelope from her mom that contains a final request: for her to
complete a Christmas Checklist of twelve activities before
Christmas, the last one being "Find Love."
- 10 Steps to Love (Dec.
27): Sophie Michaels has used
a 10 step plan to succeed, until she decides to try this strategy
to find love. Fate will step in to teach her that the heart doesn't
need a list. (….teach her that you can't always choose who
you're going to love).
- A Picture Perfect Romance (Dec.
27): When a childhood friend asks Zoey to photograph her
wedding, she must allow love back into her life after her ex-fiance
left her at the altar.
- Aloha With Love (Dec. 27):
A big city architect flies to Hawaii in order to handle the estate of her
late Aunt where she learns she must renovate a house with the help
of a country-boy contractor.
- My Boss' Wedding
(Dec. 27): Nicole gets the
opportunity to plan her boss' wedding with the fiancee's
free-spirited nephew, whose hopeless romantic personality seems
destined to clash with hers.
ABOUT THE DOVE CHANNEL
Escape to a world of romance and excitement with Dove, where
heartwarming stories await. Whether you're in the mood for a
light-hearted romance, inspiring drama, or heartwarming holiday
escape, Dove is your home away from home. Live. Laugh. Dove. For
more information, including how to watch, visit
dovechannel.com.
ABOUT CINEVERSE
On a mission to uplift storytellers and entertain fans with the
power of technology, Cineverse (NASDAQ: CNVS) distributes
over 71,000 premium films, series, and podcasts. Engaging over 150
million unique monthly users, Cineverse delivers more than one
billion minutes of curated content each month – connecting fans
with stories that resonate.
With properties like the box office sensation, Terrifier 3,
iconic horror destination, Bloody Disgusting, the Bob Ross Channel,
women's entertainment channel Dove, and a leading podcast network,
Cineverse is the first stop for audiences seeking authentic and
experiential content. From a vibrant range of content and fandom
channels, to next-gen advertising offerings and streaming
solutions, Cineverse is setting the stage for a new era of
entertainment.
About Nicely Entertainment
Nicely Entertainment is a production and distribution company
founded and helmed by Vanessa
Shapiro. Most recently, Shapiro served as President of
Worldwide TV Distribution & Co-Productions at Gaumont. During
her tenure at Gaumont, Shapiro served as Executive Producer Amazon
Prime's Original Series El Presidente (8x60'), nominated for
Best Drama at the 2021 International Emmy Awards. Known as
'the leader in 'feel-good' entertainment, Nicely brings to market
more than 25 new movies each year to global audiences and markets
around the world. Since the company's founding in 2020, movies have
premiered on all major channels and platforms from Lifetime,
Hallmark, Hulu, Netflix, UpTV and Great American Family with hit
titles like A Royal in Paradise and A Christmas
Frequency with Denise
Richards. With a catalog of over 100 movies, Nicely is also
a VOD aggregator in the USA.
Nicely has also co-produced 3 TV Series, the YA Netflix Original
Series Dive Club (12x22') and Gymnastics Academy: A
Second Chance! (10x22') as well as the CBC Canada Series The
Christmas Checklist (4x60'). The company is also in development
and co-production on half a dozen new television series set in
Canada, Australia, USA, and Spain.
In November 2023, Shapiro
announced the creation and launch of Darkly Entertainment,
a new label dedicated to producing and distributing genre and
premium elevated dramatic content for theatrical and digital
distribution. The first release was the action filled disaster
movie Super Icyclone.
www.nicelytv.com
Press Contacts:
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For Investors
Julie Milstead,
investorrelations@cineverse.com
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