{"id":890024,"date":"2026-10-21T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:58:09","slug":"samara-weaving-joins-olivia-wilde-naughty-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890024\/","title":{"rendered":"Samara Weaving Joins Olivia Wilde Naughty Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/samara-weaving\/\" id=\"auto-tag_samara-weaving_1\" data-tag=\"samara-weaving\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samara Weaving<\/a> has joined the growing bold-faced cast of Naughty, a holiday comedy that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/olivia-wilde\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-wilde_1\" data-tag=\"olivia-wilde\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Wilde<\/a> is directing for Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWeaving joins a call sheet that already includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jennifer-aniston\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jennifer-aniston_1\" data-tag=\"jennifer-aniston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a>, Peter Dinklage, Chase Sui Wonders, Regina Hall and Ike Barinholtz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWilde is directing the feature as her follow-up to the biting relationship comedy she helmed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-invite\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-invite_1\" data-tag=\"the-invite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Invite<\/a>, which A24 released over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWritten as a spec script by Jimmy Warden, the story centers on a mother (Aniston), whose only hope of securing custody of her son from her gaslighting trash-bag ex is to find Santa Claus (Peter Dinklage) and convince him to testify in her divorce hearing. The project has been described by sources as \u201cBridesmaids in the North Pole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWonders and Hall are playing the woman\u2019s best friends while Barinholtz is the trash-bag ex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWeaving will play Barinholtz\u2019s mistress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLuckyChap, the banner run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, will produce. Wilde and Warden are also producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUniversal has set a Nov. 5, 2027 opening for the comedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWeaving had two movies release this year \u2013 Over Your Dead Body and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come \u2013 and made film headlines when she was cast as Emma Frost, aka The White Queen, in Marvel\u2019s new X-Men feature. The latter is due to shoot next spring\/summer. She is repped by, CAA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tExecutive vp of production development Sara Scott and director of production development Jacqueline Garell are overseeing Naughty for the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samara Weaving has joined the growing bold-faced cast of Naughty, a holiday comedy that Olivia Wilde is directing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,3660,206,139162,26462,202852],"class_list":["post-890024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-movies","tag-olivia-wilde","tag-samara-weaving","tag-the-invite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890024","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=890024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}