{"id":65828,"date":"2025-08-07T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65828\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:27:08","slug":"eddie-murphy-happy-gilmore-2-kyle-newacheck-team-on-comedy-playas-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65828\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Happy Gilmore 2 Kyle Newacheck Team On Comedy Playas Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/eddie-murphy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eddie-murphy\" data-tag=\"eddie-murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Murphy<\/a> will continue his long collaborative relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/imagine-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_imagine-entertainment\" data-tag=\"imagine-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imagine Entertainment<\/a>. He\u2019s set to star in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/playas-ball\/\" id=\"auto-tag_playas-ball\" data-tag=\"playas-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Playas Ball<\/a>, a comedy that will be directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kyle-newacheck\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kyle-newacheck\" data-tag=\"kyle-newacheck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Newacheck<\/a>, who just helmed the Netflix hit Happy Gilmore 2. They\u2019re keeping the logline under wraps, but it\u2019s described to me as an action comedy about the undead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tImagine Entertainment\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brian-grazer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-grazer\" data-tag=\"brian-grazer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Grazer<\/a> and Jeb Brody will produce with Eddie Murphy Productions\u2019 Eddie Murphy and Charisse Hewitt-Webster. Myles Murphy is scripting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEddie Murphy has just opened in The Pickup, the Amazon MGM comedy he stars in with Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer and Eva Longoria. The film just dropped on Amazon Prime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt has been 40 years since Grazer and director Ron Howard formed Imagine after teaming on the hit Splash. Murphy has been a regular contributor to the company\u2019s ascension, headlining films that include The Nutty Professor franchise, Bowfinger, Life, Boomerang, Candy Cane Lane, and Tower Heist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMurphy and Newachek are repped by WME. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy will continue his long collaborative relationship with Imagine Entertainment. He\u2019s set to star in Playas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[48348,35732,88,48349,30438,206,48350],"class_list":{"0":"post-65828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brian-grazer","9":"tag-eddie-murphy","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-imagine-entertainment","12":"tag-kyle-newacheck","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-playas-ball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828","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=65828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}