"My production company is such a breath of fresh air.  It's such a relaxation period for me from acting and singing.  Really what I've done is find three completely different realms of the entertainment industry still keep me doing what I love."

-JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT

Expansion began in 1998...

In 1998, Love formed her own production company:

LOVE SPELL^{™ ®} ENTERTAINMENT

.....with Spellmakers Jill Gilbert serving as Vice President of Love Spell and Kim Kovac as Executive Story Editor for Love Spell.

The first two movie productions began under the new banner with a treatment Love sold to New Line Cinema, a Time Warner Company, titled:

"CUPID'S LOVE"
then re-titled for legal reasons to
"MARRY ME, JANE"

But in February 2001, Sony's Columbia Pictures released a movie similar to Love's treatment titled "The Wedding Planner" starring Jennifer Lopez. Despite the lost for New Line Cinema and Love, the Columbia Pictures' "rip off" bombed with the critics and the audience. Columbia Pictures should've listened to Love in the first place.

And as for Love's treatment...it's not a "complete" lost when the treatment can be re-written and better.

The second Love Spell production in association with Robert Greenwald Productions and Endemol Entertainment ("BIG BROTHER") was based on the life of the legendary woman and actress, AUDREY HEPBURN.

But when the media learned of Jennifer Love Hewitt being the co-executive producer and starring in the role of Ms. Hepburn, the critics did their work to bashed "the unknown actress" for portraying "the legendary actress".

Whether Love would take the role of Ms. Hepburn or not, it was Love's mother, Pat Hewitt, and the life of Audrey Hepburn that convinced Love to take on the role. Two women (Audrey & Love) who have lacked the experience of entertainment, it's worth giving it a try before criticizing.

Audrey Hepburn could be identified by Love in health, success and failures, parents, and life. Cannot see a reason why not portraying Audrey. Love looks like Audrey.

So in the USA on March 27, 2000, Love starred in the title role and Co-Executive Produced the ABC Original Movie:

"THE AUDREY HEPBURN STORY"
"Party of Five"/Time Of Your Life/Ghost Whisperer
 director, STEVE ROBMAN took over the directing helm.

The three hour-made-for-TV bio movie was Number One in its time slot for March 27, 2000 and Number 12 for the week of March 27 to April 2, 2000. So much for critics.

Also Jennifer Love Hewitt became an Advisory Board Member to The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund located at the banner below known as AudreyHepburn.com. Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the son of Audrey Hepburn and actor/producer/director Mel Ferrer is the Chairman of the Board for The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.

"Audrey was the first person I really identified with.  She hated her ears; I've always hated my ears.  Her biggest dream was to be a ballerina, but she was never really good enough.  I always wanted to be a ballerina, but wasn't good enough."

-JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT

"Working with Jennifer Love Hewitt was one of the best weeks of my life, maybe THE best! I consider Jennifer Love Hewitt to be one of the warmest and most sincere people I have ever met. She has a wonderful little talent button deep within herself - that she pushes right before they call action. She is without a doubt a pure and unspoiled talent."

-MICHAEL J. BURG
the actor who portrayed Truman Capote
in "The Audrey Hepburn Story"

"IF ONLY"

starring an all British cast including PAUL NICHOLLS, LUCY DAVENPORT, MICHAEL TUCKER, THE WILKENSONS: TOM WILKENSON & DIANA HARDCASTLE and ROY SAMPSON.

Samantha (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is an American music student living in London, carefree, impulsive and madly in love with her English boyfriend, Ian (Paul Nicholls).

But Ian is wedded to his high pressure, high finance job and he's too busy to notice that by ignoring his emotions and neglecting his adoring girlfriend, he runs the risk of losing her altogether. When the situation takes a tragic turn, Ian at last realizes his true feelings for Samantha.

If only he'd told her what he really thought. If only he could re-live his last day with her and put things right. If only.....

Jennifer Love Hewitt is attached to star and produce through her Love Spell Entertainment with Jill Gilbert. TV/Motion picture veteran director, GIL JUNGER, is one of the producers and the director.

The movie had its USA premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival on January 23, 2004. Two years later on January 15, 2006, the whole USA got to see an 'edited for television' version on the ABC Family Cable Channel. Now available on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Also Outlaw Productions and Warner Bros. along with Love and Love Spell are developing a story about an FBI trainee who is kidnapped by the mob.

"TRUST ME"

.....is the story of a mob killer who has a contract out on an FBI trainee (played by Hewitt) to kill her. But instead, the killer falls in love with the trainee.

When Love read page six of the pilot script, she was absolutely crying. By page 15, she was bawling. By the very end, she was sobbing.

Since the success of Paramount Pictures Television and NBC's hit "Medium", Van Praagh and Gray looked over what can be done right and thus looking on the life of a 47 year-old psychic Mary Ann Winkowski,

"GHOST WHISPERER"

was bought by CBS Television & CBS Television Studios (a CBS Corporation company) and Touchstone Television (now ABC Studios - a Walt Disney company).

Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Melinda (based on the life of the 47 year-old psychic Winkowski who serves as a Technical Consultant on the TV series) and actor David Conrad plays her husband Jim as a young newlywed endowed with the unique ability to communicate with spirits, who has spent her entire life coping with this extraordinary gift, but who also yearns to lead an ordinary life--if only the dead would stop talking. And what they are saying leads her to some unusual psychic investigations.

Comedian, TV Host and actress Aisha Tyler also stars, playing their friend and Melinda's partner in an antique store, Andrea.  But then in the second season it was good-bye to Andrea (Aisha Tyler) and hello to two new cast members: Emmy Award Winner ("The Practice") CAMRYN MANHEIM and Comedian/Writer/Actor JAY MOHR.  Fourth Season said good-bye to Professor Rick Payne (Jay Mohr) and hello to a new cast member: Comedian/Writer/Actor JAMIE KENNEDY.

Kim Moses and Ian Sander are the Executive Producers. James Van Praagh is the co-Executive Producer and Jennifer Love Hewitt was one of the producers on the TV series from the beginning of Season One - 2005 to end of Season Four - 2009. In Season Four, Jennifer Love Hewitt directed her first episode titled "Boby of Water."  Jennifer Love Hewitt is now one of the Executive Producers and directors in Season Five.  Season Five marked the broadcast of the 100th episode directed by Jennifer Love Hewitt.  This is Jennifer Love Hewitt's first project with CBS, first with Paramount Pictures Domestic Television (CBS Television Studios), and second TV Project with Touchstone Television (ABC Studios).

She's back on TV!

GHOST WHISPERER - Friday nights at 8:00 PM e/p on CBS (USA). #1 IN ITS TIME SLOT and CTV (Canada).  Also enjoying successful encore runs on The ION Channel, Syfy Channel, WEtv, CBC - Canada, and internationally.

PASS OUT THE AWARDS!

Congratulations to Jennifer Love Hewitt as the members of the Family Television Awards awarded Love the

BEST ACTRESS AWARD
for "GHOST WHISPERER"
(2006)

"Ghost Whisperer" co-star CAMRYN MANHEIM presented the award to "JLove".

And again congratulations to Jennifer Love Hewitt as the members of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films---known as the Saturn Awards---awarded Love the

BEST ACTRESS AWARD
for "GHOST WHISPERER"
(for 2006 and 2007)

"I really think there's people out there that we don't see who's story we have to tell."

-JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT
regarding her TV series
"Ghost Whisperer"

Jennifer Love Hewitt ended her agreement with Handprint Entertainment in late 2005 and signed with Untitled Entertainment. The first deal with Untitled and Love Spell Entertainment was acquiring the rights to

"SHE HAD BRAINS, A BODY,
AND THE ABILITY TO MAKE MEN LOVE HER"

......a Texas Monthly article about a hooker housewife, with plans of starring in and producing a feature adaptation.

The article, which was written by Katy Vine and appeared in the January issue, tells the tale of a 22-year-old housewife and former homecoming queen in Odessa, Texas, who became one of the city's most popular hookers until she, her co-workers and 68 prominent Odessa residents were arrested in a scandal that shook the city.

Love Spell and Untitled Entertainment are currently out to writers to adapt the material, which they hope to turn into a comedy.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is teaming up with women's cabler Oxygen Channel to exec produce

"ANGRY LITTLE GIRLS"

The cabler has greenlight the production on the pilot based on the eponymous book and website @ www.angrylittlegirls.com

The website's weekly comic strip revolves around the adventures of a "South Park"-type group of girls living in an increasingly angry world. Girls separately are disenchanted, gloomy, crazy, fresh and angry.

"Angry Little Girls" was created by Lela Lee in response to what she found to be insulting Asian characters in other cartoons. She's cut her comedy chops with roles on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Will & Grace," and "Scrubs."

Untitled Entertainment is in negotiations to produce with Hewitt's LoveSpell Entertainment. Lee will also produce.

Oxygen programming prexy Debby Beece called Lee's 'tube-driven' toon a new category for women.

"it's definitely not the kind of thing you see everyday,"Beece said. "Girls aren't always sweetness and Light. This is darker and funnier than what's out there aimed at women."

Oxygen has dabbled in animation , airing the original toon "Hey Monie," which had a second life on BET, and "X Chromosone."

Hewitt last starred in the original Oxygen movie "Confessions of A Sociopathic Social Climber," one of the network's highest rated telecasts.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:

On January 25, 2002, Jennifer Love Hewitt is starring in and co-producing through her Love Spell Entertainment, the Fox 2000 (20th Centuryt-Fox, a News Corporation company) romantic comedy "My Romance" and the Showtime Network (a Viacom company) dramatic cable feature, "Secrets."

"MY ROMANCE"

.....is the story of a frustrated artist (Hewitt) who has sworn off romance. When rumors link her with a millionaire playboy, she plays along and finds love in the process. Motion Picture Producer John Davis will co-produce with Love Spell. The Davis/Hewitt venture is their second motion picture together. John Davis co-produced with Irving Ong the 2001 MGM hit, "Heartbreakers" starring Love and Sigourney Weaver. This Love's first of two movies with Fox Motion Pictures. The second is the cartoon live action film: "GARFIELD" (2003) based on the cat-toon character created by Jim Davis (no relation). Produced by Davis Entertainment with 20th Century-Fox, and co-starring BRECKIN MEYER as Garfield's master, Jon, Love will play the love interest of Jon's. Love Spell is not involved in the "Garfield" project.

"SECRETS"

.....for the Showtime Network is based on Charlotte Jerace's unpublished manuscript that will be adapted by Melinda Jason. "Secrets" is the story a young woman (Hewitt) who learns that her missing husband, shot down during the Vietnam War, has a sick child by a Laotian woman. She takes the woman and child into her home until surgery can be performed to save the child's life. Mark Gordon ("SPEED", "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN") is producing with Love Spell. This is Love's first production with Showtime and Viacom.

HEWITT & HEPBURN returns to Love Spell!.....in

"WHY CAN'T I BE AUDREY HEPBURN?"

.....for WARNER BROS., the Nashville film division: Gaylord Films and London/Beverly Hills based Myriad Pictures with Palomar Pictures.

Love will play Perry Forman, a 25-year-old woman who moves from Ohio to Los Angeles and quickly has it all -- a job at a local news station and a fiance. In the course of one week, she is left at the altar and loses her job. In trying to rebuild her life, she turns to her fiance's best man, who shares her love of Audrey Hepburn movies, only to find out that he uses facts about Hepburn to pick up women.

Ryan Murphy, a former newspaper and magazine writer is set to make his feature directorial debut on his own screenplay.

This is Love's first ventureas a producer and star with all of these film companies.

And while Love is making a movie with John Davis, the "Heartbreakers" tradition continues....

Jennifer Love Hewitt will be reteaming with Winchester Entertainment to produce and star in the romantic comedy.....

"ONE NIGHT"

Hewitt and Jill Gilbert will produce through their Love Spell Entertainment along with Eagle Cove Deluxe Entertainment.

Stephen Dorff is also attached to star in the film. Helena Kriel will be penning the script for the project. Winchester Entertainment's CEO Gary Smith and president Hadeel Reda will serve as the executive producers. They served as Executive Producers on the 2001 hit "Heartbreakers" for MGM.

Singer-Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt will star and produce, with her production company Love Spell Entertainment (LSE) with Harvey Entertainment & Out Of The Blue Productions

"BUNNY"

This version of "Bunny" is a spy comedy based on the Harvey comic book of the same name from the 1960s. Her character is a college student, who also happens to be a spy, sent on over-the-top, James Bond (or Jane Bond)-style missions.

Rick Mischel, president of Harvey Entertainment at the time of agreement with MGM and LSE, would also serve as a producer on the film.

The interesting thing here is that Harvey Comics doesn't mention anything about the "spy thing" in their synopsis of the comic book.

Columbia Pictures, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company was to bring their onboard a surfer chick coping with some harshed issues in this romantic dramedy based on the Andrea Gabbard book (of the same title)

"THE GIRL IN THE CURL"

.....chronicling the history of women's surfing. But Paramount Pictures Corporation, a Viacom Company had obtained the rights from the dying Sony empire of entertainment. The movie location managers are scouting locations in and around Oahu, Hawaii.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is to star as a girl who finds catharsis through surfing while attempting to cope with the death of her brother. The project is also being developed through Hewitt's Love Spell Entertainment with Hewitt and Jill Gilbert to produce with DeLine. Subject to change.

Hot young writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith — whose debut screenwriting effort produced the charming teen skewed Shakespeare knockoff "10 Things I Hate About You" (Directed by "If Only" director GIL JUNGER) is already in place. This team also wrote the MGM 2001 hit, "Legally Blonde" starring Reese Witherspoon....a movie Jennifer Love Hewitt mistakenly turned down.

"She's always on time, even for parties. At Work, she's so disciplined. But she loves to let loose, make people laugh. She can hold her own in a pillow fight."

-KIM KOVAC