{"id":793325,"date":"2026-07-10T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793325\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:28:14","slug":"shop-transformed-in-mississauga-for-highly-anticipated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793325\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop transformed in Mississauga for highly anticipated movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shop in Mississauga has been transformed into a bookstore and coffee shop for the filming of Beach Read.<\/p>\n<p>The romance, based on Emily Henry\u2019s bestselling novel of the same name, stars Patrick Schwarzenegger\u00a0(White Lotus),\u00a0son of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger,\u00a0and Phoebe Dynevor of\u00a0Bridgerton fame, and is directed by Yulin Kuang.<\/p>\n<p>Henry\u2019s books have become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/discover\/emily-henry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">massively popular across TikTok<\/a> and BookTok over the last few years, making this one of the more anticipated romance adaptations currently in production.\u2060<\/p>\n<p>The story follows Augustus Everett (Schwarzenegger), an acclaimed author of literary fiction, and January Andrews (Dynevor), who writes bestselling romance novels.<\/p>\n<p>Struggling with writer\u2019s block, the pair strike a deal to write in each other\u2019s genres. Augustus will spend the summer writing a happy romance, and January will pen a serious literary novel.<\/p>\n<p>Filming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/rom-com-starring-patrick-schwarzenegger-phoebe-dynevor-films-in-niagara-and-mississauga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">started on June 1<\/a> with locations in Toronto, Niagara and Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-832311\" class=\"wp-image-832311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/beach-read-filming-mississauga-1.jpg\" alt=\"beach read filming mississauga\" width=\"1504\" height=\"1278\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-832311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Reddit post shows a Streetsville shop transformed for filming.<\/p>\n<p>New social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/mississauga\/comments\/1uqwtq4\/filming_in_streetsville_june_8_around_740am\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">media posts<\/a> show the store at 228 Queen St. S. in Streetsville, transformed into \u201cPete\u2019s Bookstore + Coffee.\u201d The shop is home to The Littlest Gift Boutique, which has noted on their website that they are closed for filming from June 22 to July 21.<\/p>\n<p>A video from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@notyumna\/video\/7660373232524086544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tik Tok user, notyumna,<\/a> gets a closer look at the window display of the fake shop, which has \u201cbooks\u201d by the film\u2019s two main characters, Augustus Everett and January Andrews.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-832298\" class=\"wp-image-832298 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/beach-read-filming-mississauga-2.jpg\" alt=\"beach read filming mississauga\" width=\"1012\" height=\"1394\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-832298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closer look at the Beach Read filming location in Streetsville shows books by the characters in the story. Photo: notyumna TikTok screenshot<\/p>\n<p>The film also stars well-known actors Kevin Bacon, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Davis and Tig Notaro.<\/p>\n<p>Filming is set to wrap up on July 22, according to Ontario Creates.<\/p>\n<p>It is set to be released in theatres by 20th Century Studios on May 7, 2027.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Filming Update!<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BeachRead?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#BeachRead<\/a> has taken over Streetsville, Mississauga. \ud83d\udcda\ud83c\udfa5\ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n<p>A new video gives us a closer look at Pete\u2019s Bookstore and some of Gus and January\u2019s books.<br \/>\ud83c\udfa5 via notyumna (TikTok) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/afa0WuGiCT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/afa0WuGiCT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Filming (@TOFilming_EM) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TOFilming_EM\/status\/2075564947346461149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lead photo: notyumna TikTok screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 44,334 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,424,743 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    1473 VOTES<br \/>\n    Do you think Canada did a good job of hosting the World Cup?    <\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shop in Mississauga has been transformed into a bookstore and coffee shop for the filming of Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-793325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}