{"id":610885,"date":"2026-09-25T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610885\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:18:12","slug":"fake-skating-movie-to-star-amelie-hoeferle-graham-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610885\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fake Skating’ Movie To Star Am\u00e9lie Hoeferle & Graham Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures and Will Gluck\u2019s Olive Bridge Entertainment have tapped Am\u00e9lie Hoeferle<\/a> and Graham Campbell<\/a> to star in Fake Skating<\/a>, a film adaptation based on Lynn Painter<\/a>\u2019s New York Times bestselling book. Deadline recently broke<\/a> the news that Josh Boone would direct.<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan Lehmann and Victoria Bata penned the first draft of the script with Boone and his writing partner Knate Lee handling revisions.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow is Painter\u2019s social media post announcing the news.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet for a summer 2027 release, Fake Skating is an emotional high school hockey romance about childhood sweethearts whose icy reunion in their hockey-loving hometown unexpectedly thaws when they fake a romantic relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline first reported the studio coming on to the project<\/a> in March and moved fast to get Boone on board after they heard he was high on the project. Once the greenlight was given, Boone spent the remainder of the summer testing actors for its two leads, with Boone and execs ultimately landing on the two rising stars.<\/p>\n

\n\tPainter is the No. 1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Better Than the Movies, The Do-Over, Betting on You, Maid For Each Other, First and Forever, Nothing Like the Movies and Fake Skating. Winner of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction, Fake Skating has nearly 500,000 copies in print and has appeared on the New York Times YA Hardcover Bestseller list 48 times since its release in September 2025, holding the No. 1 spot for 15 of those weeks. The novel has been translated into 16 languages.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix is working on a film adaptation of Painter\u2019s Better Than the Movies, directed by Julia Hart<\/a> and starring David Iacono and Beatrice Kitsos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Everything We Know About Netflix\u2019s \u2018Better Than The Movies\u2019 Feature Adaptation So Far<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGluck and Jacqueline Monetta are producing and Madison Jones is executive producing on behalf of Olive Bridge Entertainment. Painter will also serve as an executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tHoeferle stars in the Prime Video young adult series Sterling Point. Her other credits include Eddington and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. She is repped by Gersh, Affirmative Entertainment, The Lede Company, and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n

\n\tCampbell gained attention in the Tony -winning play Appropriate opposite Sarah Paulson. Recently, he can be seen in FX\u2019s The Shards and the acclaimed film Late Fame which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was just released by Magnolia. He is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, The Lede Company and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n

\n\tOlive Bridge is repped by UTA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Painter is repped by UTA and BookEnds Literary Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures and Will Gluck\u2019s Olive Bridge Entertainment have tapped Am\u00e9lie Hoeferle and Graham Campbell to star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[301053,156,301054,301055,279735,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-610885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amu00e9lie-hoeferle","tag-entertainment","tag-fake-skating","tag-graham-campbell","tag-lynn-painter","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}