Matthew Daddario and Holland Roden to Star in Hallmark’s ‘Vacation Landing: A Payments Love Story’

Hallmark is welcoming its subsequent Vacation Landing solid into the sport.

On Monday, Might 19, the community introduced who will likely be main the upcoming Vacation Landing: A Payments Love Story, which is ready to premiere throughout Hallmark’s sixteenth annual Countdown to Christmas this winter. The actors launched themselves in a fun YouTube video, the place they tossed round a soccer and sported Buffalo Payments merch.

Tony Danza, Matthew Daddario, Holland Roden, Tracy Pollan, Steve Schirripa and Caroline Aaron will star within the movie because it follows two households who’ve a “longtime friendship rooted” of their “cherished traditions” supporting their favourite soccer staff.

“Pediatric physician Morgan Quinn (Roden) and the Payments’ VP of Stadium Improvement Gabe DeLuca (Daddario) have at all times been shut mates, however Gabe has at all times held a torch for her — a reality apparent to their households (Pollan, Aaron, Schirripa)… and everybody else who crosses their path,” the official logline reads. “When Morgan learns from her Uncle Tommy (Danza) that somebody anonymously helped her household get by after he was drafted greater than 60 years in the past — and that he continues to obtain a Christmas present every year to today — she decides to seek out his benefactor and provides her uncle a Christmas he’ll at all times bear in mind.”

“Aided by Payments Mafia mates of theirs, Morgan and Gabe work collectively to unwrap the gifter’s id,” it continues. “Alongside the way in which, Gabe’s love for Morgan deepens and in flip, she begins to see him in a brand new mild although neither is daring sufficient to confess their emotions.”

The outline concludes: “In the meantime, Morgan’s hopes of pulling off her shock for Uncle Tommy get sacked. That’s, till Gabe takes issues into his personal fingers and makes use of his connections with the Payments to tug off the shock of a lifetime for Morgan and each their households that may make this a Christmas they’ll always remember.”

The Payments’ head coach, Sean McDermott, can also be becoming a member of the star-studded solid, and a number of other gamers will likely be making cameos, together with operating again Ray Davis, security Damar Hamlin, offensive deal with Dion Dawkins, tight finish Dawson Knox, lengthy snapper Reid Ferguson, defensive deal with DeWayne Carter and extensive receiver Joshua Palmer.

Plus, there will likely be appearances from Buffalo Payments legend Jim Kelly, former gamers Steve Tasker, Thurman Thomas and Scott Norwood, together with the Payments’ play-by-play announcer Chris Brown. Luke Russert can also be participating within the film in honor of his late father, broadcast journalist and “die-hard Payments fan,” Tim Russert.

“We’re so excited to have a stellar ensemble solid that’s actually an performing dream staff,” mentioned Samantha DiPippo, Senior Vice President of Programming at Hallmark Media, within the press launch. “The addition of Coach McDermott together with the present Payments gamers and alumni offers us the successful mixture to deliver to life this heartwarming story that celebrates the bonds of household and neighborhood and, in fact, there’s romance with a contact of Christmas magic.”

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Hamlin first revealed the news that the 2025 version of Vacation Landing would revolve across the Buffalo Payments in March.

“We’ve got massive information right now! Hallmark Channel and the NFL have chosen the Buffalo Payments within the 2025 Countdown to Christmas film draft,” the participant introduced in a video posted to social media. “We’re so excited to have fun our staff, ours followers and a shout out to Payments mafia and our shared love of soccer and Hallmark Christmas films.”

This got here after 2024’s Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, which the Chief Model Officer at Hallmark Darren Abbott talked about in an announcement about persevering with the collection in March.

“The unimaginable success of final 12 months’s partnership with the NFL and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs far exceeded our expectations,” Abbott mentioned on the time. “We’re thrilled to staff up with the Payments this 12 months for a brand new vacation film full of coronary heart, household and the traditional Hallmark storytelling that our followers know and love, all set in opposition to the particular neighborhood the Payments franchise has nurtured all through its storied historical past.”