{"id":923256,"date":"2026-10-06T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923256\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:56:11","slug":"jessica-biel-joins-playmates-movie-at-searchlight-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923256\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Biel Joins &#8216;Playmates&#8217; Movie At Searchlight Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jessica-biel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jessica-biel\" data-tag=\"jessica-biel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Biel<\/a> has found her next feature project in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/playmates\/\" id=\"auto-tag_playmates\" data-tag=\"playmates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Playmates<\/a>, the Searchlight flick inspired by filmmaker Lorraine Nicholson\u2019s experiences growing up at the Playboy Mansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBiel is playing a wife to Hugh Hefner and former Playboy Playmate \u2014 a fictional character we\u2019re told isn\u2019t modeled off any of Hefner\u2019s three wives, specifically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBill Pullman is playing Hefner as previously announced, starring alongside child actress Indiana Elle and Lily-Rose Depp. Searchlight <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/lily-rose-depp-bill-pullman-to-star-playmates-searchlight-1237109309\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced its acquisition<\/a> of the Playboy-themed feature package late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNicholson\u2019s feature directorial debut Playmates adapts her own original script \u2014 an L.A.-set coming-of-age story following 13-year-old know-it-all Elle (played by Indiana Elle), who considers the Playboy Mansion her second home. During her time at the Mansion, Elle meets Anna (Depp), one of seven hopefuls vying to be Playmate of the Month. The two form an unlikely friendship and try to help each other get what the other wants most, a magazine cover and a boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducers on Playmates include Alex Orlovsky and Duncan Montgomery of High Frequency Entertainment, as well as Depp. VP Production Richard Ruiz and CE Cornelia Burleigh are overseeing the project for the studio, reporting to Heads of Production and Development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn Emmy and two-time Golden Globe nominee for her work as star and exec producer of USA Network\u2019s The Sinner, Biel most recently exec produced and starred opposite Elizabeth Banks in The Better Sister, Prime Video\u2019s limited series based on the novel by Alafair Burke. She came to the thriller following several years away from the screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNext up, Biel will be seen starring opposite John Cena in Matchbox: The Movie, a collaboration between Apple, Skydance and Mattel that begins streaming on Apple TV this Friday. She is repped by UTA, LBI Entertainment, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Biel has found her next feature project in Playmates, the Searchlight flick inspired by filmmaker Lorraine Nicholson\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,27045,317685,80150],"class_list":["post-923256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-biel","tag-playmates","tag-searchlight-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923256","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=923256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}