According to , Jennifer Love Hewitt is set to star in a new comedy film titled “White Trash Christmas Carol”.

However, McLendon-Covey also plays a mother in Jennifer Love Hewitt’s “White Trash Christmas Carol,” which begins shooting this month in Canada. The comedy has Hewitt taking a lowlife turn as a self-centered, unemployed, whiskey-drinking, Cheez Whiz-eating mother who is about to lose her three children unless she makes some big changes. McLendon-Covey plays “a very reserved character, an uptight mom who doesn’t respond well to Jennifer’s freewheeling ways.”

During her benefit concert at the House of Blues on September 11, singer and book author Deana Martin announced that her 2004 memoir, entitled “Memories Are Made Of This,” is being made into a movie with some celebrated figures hand-picked to help accelerate the project’s long journey to the silver screen.

The book is a 285-page captivating abstract of Hollywood icon Dean Martin’s life, as perceived and witnessed first-hand by the star entertainer’s greatest fan — his devoted daughter.

After taking audience members on an enthralling and visual expedition of some of her best memories growing up with her famous dad, Martin confirmed that singer-turned-actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, 32, is slated to portray the internationally-acclaimed artist in a film adaptation of Martin’s book.

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The hit stageplay and bestselling book “Jewtopia” is heading to the bigscreen with Jennifer Love Hewitt and “Crossing Jordan” thesp Ivan Sergei set to star.

Playwright Bryan Fogel is directing from a script he co-wrote with Sam Wolfson. Fogel will also produce with Andy Fickman, Pavlina Hatoupis and Courtney Mizel.

Described as a cross between “Wedding Crashers” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” indie pic follows two childhood best friends who reunite as adults when one asks the other to help him pretend to be Jewish so he can romance a woman.

Sergei will play Christian O’Connell, a gentile plumber who poses as a Jewish doctor in order to land a Jewish girlfriend who’ll make all his decisions for him. Hewitt will play Alison Marks, the object of Christian’s affection, who meets him during a singles mixer at temple.

“Jewtopia” opened in Los Angeles in May 2003, and after 17 weeks, became the longest-running original comedy in the history of L.A. theater. Show opened off-Broadway in Sept. 2004 and is one of the three most successful off-Broadway productions of the last decade, along with “Blue Man Group” and “Stomp,” having recouped its entire investment in a record 16 weeks.

Stageplay ended its Gotham run in April 2007 after more than 1200 performances. It has been seen by over 500,000 people across North America and Canada, with additional productions in Chicago, Florida, Toronto, Tampa and Rochester.

Hewitt recently starred in the “Garfield” movies and is skedded to make her directorial debut with the supernatural pic “Wait Till Helen Comes.”

Sergei is best known for starring on the WB’s “Jack & Jill” and Starz’s “Gravity.” He previously appeared on the bigscreen in Don Roos’ 1998 indie “The Opposite of Sex.”

Sergei is repped by APA and McKeon-Myones Management, while WME and Untitled rep Hewitt along with attorney Robert S. Wallerstein.

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Maya Entertainment has picked up international rights to the rom-com Café starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Kennedy and Alexa Vega.

Sales head Elias Axume is talking to buyers here on writer-director Marc Erlbaum’s debut about a ravishing coffee shop employee who impacts on the lives of those around her, including a drug dealer and a young woman.

Café is the first film to emerge from Nationlight Productions and was produced by J Andrew Greenblatt, Erlbaum, Sean Covel and Chris Doc Wyatt.

Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content and Alexis Garcia of WME Global brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Maya’s Tonantzin Esparza.

“Maya Entertainment is pleased to be a part of this unique comedy that sheds a light on how intertwined our everyday lives and communities really are,” Axume said. “Marc has created a wonderful story that at its heart has a dynamic performance by Ms Hewitt.”

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Don’t forget that Jennifer Love Hewitt is starring in the TV movie “The Lost Valentine”, TONIGHT on CBS at 9:00pm! Make sure you tune in and/or set your DVR’s to see this all new movie starring Love!

Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt search for a long-lost love in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation “The Lost Valentine” — and ET is first to take you behind the scenes.

In the drama, Betty plays Caroline, a World War II widow, who lost her husband when his plane was shot down over the Pacific and he is reported MIA. Caroline has never had any final notification that her husband is dead, so each Valentine’s Day, she returns to Union Station — the last place she saw him — to salute his memory on what is also their wedding anniversary.

“People ask me, ‘What would you like to do that you haven’t done, and in my mind it’s always a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie,” Betty tells ET.

This particular film was of interest to her because of the lost-love angle. Betty was married to Allen Ludden from 1963 until his death in 1981, and she has never remarried. So she understands her character.

“If you’ve had a big love in your life like I had with my beloved Allen Ludden … Oh, he’s right here,” she says, indicating her heart.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt will make her feature directorial debut in an adaptation of family ghost story “Wait Till Helen Comes” through Hewitt’s Fedora Films and Just Believe Prods.

Producers are Hewitt and producing partner A.J. Rinella with Victoria Sanchez Mandryk co-producing and Manuel Freedman exec producing. Producers are eyeing a summer start.

Sanchez Mandryk has penned the script for “Wait Till Helen Comes,” based on the novel by Mary Downing Hahn, which centers on a 12-year-old girl who’s the eldest of three children in a blended family that moves from Baltimore into a house converted from a church in the Maryland countryside. The tormented ghost of a little girl comes to haunt the 12-year-old but forms an intimate though dangerous friendship with her seven-year-old stepsister.

She directed several segments of “The Ghost Whisperer.” She and A.J. Rinella have set up “Bad Taste in Men” at ABC and an untitled comedy at Fox, as well as a series adaptation of her TV film “The Client List” at Lifetime.

WME, which reps Hewitt, is packaging “Wait Till Helen Comes.”

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