{"id":13564,"date":"2025-07-16T06:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13564\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T06:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:46:03","slug":"cameron-diaz-starring-in-bad-day-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13564\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Diaz starring in Bad Day for Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCameron Diaz<\/a>, who after a near-decade hiatus made a return to acting this year with Netflix\u2019s hit Back in Action<\/a>, is continuing to be back in action.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress has reunited with the streaming giant and signed on to star in Bad Day, an action comedy to be directed by Jake Szymanski, who helmed the well-regarded comedy series Jury Duty<\/a> as well as Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. <\/p>\n

\n\tBeau Bauman, who produced Back in Action, is producing with his Good One Productions.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Laura Solon, the original script centers on a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project has been described as a comedic version of Falling Down, the 1993 drama directed by Joel Schumacher that starred Michael Douglas as a man who hits his breaking point while trying to get to his daughter\u2019s birthday party.<\/p>\n

\n\tSolon will executive produce, as will Mark Moran. This is the third collaboration for the Solon and Bauman, who previously worked together on comedies Office Christmas Party and Let It Snow. The scribe wrote the script on spec, with Bauman helping to develop it.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix is moving fast on this one, which will shoot this fall in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith movies ranging from Something About Mary and The Holiday to Bad Teacher and the Shrek movies, Diaz was one of Hollywood\u2019s most bankable big-screen stars when she took a break in 2014. She was lured back by the previous Netflix regime with the promise of a big paycheck and the chance to reunite with her Annie co-star Jamie Foxx for Back in Action.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie, about a married couple who happen to be former spies, debuted in January and became an instant hit on the platform. In just six months, it now sits at No. 6 on Netflix\u2019s most watched movie list of all time, per Nielsen.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack in Action is also the most watched original streaming movie of the year so far, with 5.26 billion minutes viewed, and the third-most-watched movie on any streaming platform.<\/p>\n

\n\tDiaz is repped by LBI Entertainment and Jackoway Austen. Szymanski is repped by UTA, Mosaic and Sloane Offer, while Solon is repped by Gersh, Independent Talent Group and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Diaz, who after a near-decade hiatus made a return to acting this year with Netflix\u2019s hit Back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13118,13119,88,13120],"class_list":{"0":"post-13564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-back-in-action","9":"tag-cameron-diaz","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jury-duty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}