Candace Cameron Bure Shifts Plans, Announces New Project with Cameron Mathison

Candace Cameron Bure and Cameron Mathison are set to star in a Christmas film later this year, although it’s not the one they initially planned to make.

Cable network Great American Family announced that Cameron Bure and Mathison will debut as co-stars in Home Sweet Christmas, an original holiday movie set to air later this year. The project is currently in production and will be part of the channel’s fourth annual Great American Christmas block.

Produced by Syrup Studios and Candy Rock Entertainment, Home Sweet Christmas centers on Sophie Marlow (Cameron Bure), a mergers and acquisitions attorney who returns to her hometown in Washington after inheriting 60 percent of her late uncle’s maple forest property. She reconnects with her long-lost childhood friend Sam (Mathison), who has inherited the remaining 40 percent of the property.

Paula Elle directs the film, with a script by Kevin Commins and Robin Dunne. Mick MacKay produces, while the executive producers include Cameron Bure, Ford Englerth, Jeffery Brooks, Holly A. Hines, Eric Jarboe, Gerald Webb, Trevor McWhinney, Paula Elle, and Martin Wood.

“We’ve been waiting 15 years to do a Christmas movie together and it’s finally happening!” Cameron Bure shared on Instagram, alongside a photo of herself with Mathison.

Last month, Great American Family announced that Cameron Bure and Mathison were set to co-star in another original holiday film called Jingle Bells, Wedding Bells, which was expected to air in November. That project, focusing on Cameron Bure as a wedding planner at an inn, scrambling to arrange a lavish ceremony two weeks before Christmas, will no longer head into production this year.

Cameron Bure is also set to star in A Christmas Less Traveled, which has already been filmed. Both A Christmas Less Traveled and Home Sweet Christmas will air on Great American Family this year, with the premiere dates set to be announced soon. She will also appear in the channel’s feature The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker, which premieres on October 4.

The actress is best known for her role as D.J. Tanner on Full House and its spinoff series Fuller House. She was also renowned for her string of Christmas movies for Hallmark Channel before ending her partnership with that network and joining Great American Family as chief content officer in 2022.

Mathison is known for his long-running roles on All My Children and General Hospital.

Source: Variety, People