{"id":518152,"date":"2026-06-25T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518152\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:25:08","slug":"beach-read-movie-casts-ella-balinska-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518152\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Beach Read’ Movie Casts Ella Balinska (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Ella Balinska<\/a> is the newest addition to\u00a0Beach Read<\/a>, 20th Century Studios<\/a>\u2018 adaptation of the New York Times bestseller from Emily Henry, which is in production in Toronto.<\/p>\n

\n\tBalinska\u2019s role is being kept under wraps. She joins an ensemble led by Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger, which also includes Andie MacDowell, Kevin Bacon, Kristin Davis, Tig Notaro and Inanna Sarkis.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn\u00a0Beach Read, idealistic romance novelist January Andrews (Dynevor) and cynical literary fiction writer Augustus \u201cGus\u201d Everett (Schwarzenegger) \u2014 rival authors with dramatically opposing worldviews \u2014 have at least one thing in common: a serious case of writer\u2019s block. When they unexpectedly find themselves living next door to each other in a small Lake Michigan beach town for the summer, they strike an unlikely bet to swap genres \u2014 and the lines between fiction and romance begin to blur.<\/p>\n

\n\tYulin Kuang, the co-writer of Netflix\u2019s hit Henry adaptation\u00a0People We Meet on Vacation, is directing from her own script, with Neal H. Moritz producing via his Original Film. The rom-com is slated for release in theaters on May 7, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tKarina Rahardja is exec producing, with Sarah Shepard and Catherine Hughes overseeing the project for 20th. The literary affairs team, led by Clare Reeth, spearheaded efforts to land rights to the book.<\/p>\n

\n\tA British actress with credits including Netflix\u2019s 2022\u00a0Resident Evil\u00a0series and 2019\u2019s\u00a0Charlie\u2019s Angels, Balinska has more recently been seen starring alongside Rob Delaney in the indie sci-fi thriller\u00a0The Occupant. She is represented by UTA, Entertainment 360 and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Ella Balinska is the newest addition to\u00a0Beach Read, 20th Century Studios\u2018 adaptation of the New York Times bestseller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[53079,220998,321,99442,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-518152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-20th-century-studios","tag-beach-read","tag-celebrities","tag-ella-balinska","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}