Cher, Anjelica Huston to Star in Lifetime Movies

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime has greenlit three new movies, including Flint, starring Cher, and Watcher in the Woods, featuring Anjelica Huston.

Cher will executive produce and star in the Lifetime original movie Flint, inspired by the Time magazine cover story “The Toxic Tap,” by Josh Sanburn. The project follows the story of three women from Flint, Michigan, who fought to expose the wrongdoing committed against the residents of the city who were unknowingly drinking and using lead-laden water.

Executive producer and director Melissa Joan Hart reimagines the ’80s cult classic Watcher in the Woods. Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston stars as Mrs. Alywood, the distraught mother whose daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. The script was written by Scott Abott.

I Am Elizabeth Smart is the definitive authorized movie about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, told from her perspective and with her full participation. Smart serves as an executive producer and on-screen narrator and will explore how she survived after being abducted, starved, drugged, raped and subjected to bizarre religious rituals until she enabled her own rescue nine months later.

Lifetime has also revealed some new additions to its unscripted slate. This Time Next Year, hosted by Cat Deeley, follows the emotional journeys of ordinary people as they embark on extraordinary missions to change their lives, over the course of one year. Each transformation will be revealed on screen in a matter of moments, as participants enter one door and emerge from another in an instantaneous, ‘time-travel’ style format.

Model Moms (working title) features former model and television personality Yolanda Hadid (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), who brings her expertise to the forefront as she coaches aspiring teen models to succeed on and off the catwalk.

Liz Gateley, the executive VP and head of programming at Lifetime, stated: “We are proud to launch such a robust offering of innovative programming with this award-winning group of talent. As we look to tell the stories that otherwise wouldn’t be told, through the vision and words of true-life experiences and female storytellers, Lifetime imagines all that’s possible for women, both on screen and beyond.”