Holiday Movie Shoots Come To Bethel, New Milford

CONNECTICUT — Filmmakers are back in the state to shoot holiday movies in Bethel and New Milford.

MarVista Entertainment, which is based in Los Angeles, filmed scenes for a Christmas movie in the parking lot of the old train station in Bethel last week, The Danbury News-Times reported.

Bethel First Selectman Dan Carter said the movie will be called "Holly Jolly." Carter said the movie is about four siblings returning home for Christmas and discovering that their parents sold the family home, according to The Danbury News-Times.

The Town of New Milford Film Commission wrote that a film will be shot in New Milford from March 1 to 20. It's unclear whether this is the same movie that's being shot in Bethel.

The filmmakers were seeking extras to be in the movie. More information is available at the New Milford Film Commission's Facebook page.

New Milford Mayor Pete Bass told The Danbury News-Times that this is the fifth movie being shot in the town in two years.

There's been a steady stream of holiday movies being shot in Connecticut in recent years. Hartford and West Hartford were featured in "The Ghost of Christmas Always," a Hallmark movie shot last year.

The year before, "Sugar Plum Twist" was shot in Norwich and New London and appeared on the Hallmark Channel that year.

"One Royal Holiday" was filmed in Putnam, Woodstock, and Hartford. The musical, holiday-themed movie premiered on the Hallmark Channel in 2020. "Holiday For Heroes," filmed in several Southeastern Connecticut towns, was released in 2019. In 2018, "Christmas On Honeysuckle Lane" appeared on Hallmark and was shot in Wethersfield.

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