HAPPY DAYS

Katie Holmes looks to the future as she reunites with her Dawson's Creek love Joshua Jackson

- CARLI WHITWELL

Katie Holmes is still Team Pacey! She and her Dawson's Creek costar Joshua Jackson have reunited in New York City for a movie and fans couldn't be more excited.

The pair went viral with news that they're teaming up for a film trilogy dubbed Happy Hours about young loves who reconnect after years apart. Katie, 46, is also writing and directing.

Her Instagram post about the first movie drew a flood of effusive reactions, including a comment from fellow Dawson's Creek alum Busy Philipps: "We are seated," she wrote simply, echoing public sentiment and adding a trio of applause emojis.

Although this is the first time they've collaborated since their hit series (which ran from 1998 to 2003), the onetime couple who dated for a year in the late 1990s have remained dear friends.

"Katie and I are very close," Vancouver-born Joshua, 47, said in April on Jesse Tyler Ferguson's podcast, Dinner's on Me. Added Katie in her social media message: "Working with Josh after so many years is a testament to friendship. Happy Hours is a love story that includes so many people I adore. We can't wait for everyone to see what we make."

Her smiles onset say it all: beaming next to the handsome dad of one (Joshua shares a daughter with ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith), Katie is clearly where she wants to be.

ON HER OWN TERMS

She's come a long way to get here. Katie was still at high school in Toledo, Ohio, when she was cast as Josephine "Joey" Potter on