{"id":291542,"date":"2025-11-14T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291542\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:29:09","slug":"my-new-friend-jim-casts-charlie-plummer-ruby-rose-turner-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291542\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My New Friend Jim&#8217; Casts Charlie Plummer, Ruby Rose Turner, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Ash Avildsen is nearing production wrap on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/my-new-friend-jim\/\" id=\"auto-tag_my-new-friend-jim\" data-tag=\"my-new-friend-jim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My New Friend Jim<\/a>, a dark comedy that has added six to its cast: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/charlie-plummer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-plummer\" data-tag=\"charlie-plummer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Plummer<\/a> (The Long Walk), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ruby-rose-turner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ruby-rose-turner\" data-tag=\"ruby-rose-turner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruby Rose Turner<\/a> (Descendants: The Rise of Red), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sky-katz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky-katz\" data-tag=\"sky-katz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Katz<\/a> (Raven\u2019s Home), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/richie-merritt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_richie-merritt\" data-tag=\"richie-merritt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richie Merritt<\/a> (White Boy Rick), Brandon Severs (Don\u2019t Tell Mom the Babysitter\u2019s Dead), and vocalist Lil Lotus, in his acting debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe previously broke news of the project, produced by Avildsen\u2019s Sumerian Pictures, whose cast is led by Rob Lowe and Keith David. Katheryn Winnick and Gina Torres also star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShooting in Nevada, the film follows two fathers (Lowe and David) from vastly different worlds who form an unlikely bond while searching for a runaway daughter in Reno. Specifics as to the characters played by the newcomers weren\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPlummer is repped by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment, and Peikoff Mahan Law Office; Turner by CAA, Geric Entertainment Group, Rebel Creative Group, and Grubman Shire Meiselas &amp; Sacks; Katz by CAA, Definition Entertainment, and Skrzyniarz &amp; Mallean; Merritt by Luber Roklin Entertainment; and Severs by Coast to Coast Talent, Authentic Talent &amp; Literary Management, and Schreck Rose Dapello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Ash Avildsen is nearing production wrap on My New Friend Jim, a dark comedy that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[152799,88,206,152800,152801,152802,152803],"class_list":{"0":"post-291542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-charlie-plummer","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-my-new-friend-jim","12":"tag-richie-merritt","13":"tag-ruby-rose-turner","14":"tag-sky-katz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291542","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=291542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}