{"id":1513941,"date":"2026-06-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=b4cfe33780269b6ab89d37b8b5a6e809"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:35:17","slug":"beach-read-film-adaptation-starts-production-gets-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513941","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beach Read&#8217; film adaptation starts production, gets release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/585141fa1af1d2f080394d8505f7d476.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Phoebe Dynevor attends the St. Regis World Snow Polo Championships 2025 at Rio Grande Park on Dec. 18, 2025, in Aspen, Colorado. (Greg Doherty\/Getty Images for St. Regis)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Production has officially started on the <em>Beach Read<\/em> film adaptation.<\/p><p>Director Yulin Kuang made the announcement in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZVFJB8JYS_\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;post Monday. The photo features stars Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger in costume and on the set of the film.<\/p><p>\"a crumb of bts from the BEACH READ camera test for you, dear reader .. can\u2019t wait to show what we\u2019ve been cooking up,\" Kuang captioned her post.<\/p><p>Kuang also announced the film's release date, which will be May 7, 2027.<\/p><p>\"filming has officially commenced,\" she wrote. \"see you only in theaters on May 7, 2027.\"<\/p><p><em>Beach Read<\/em> follows the character January Andrews, a romance novelist who struggles with writer's block due to her grief after the death of her father and her discovery of the secrets he kept.<\/p><p>January spends the summer at her father's Michigan beach house as she prepares to sell it. While there, she reconnects with Gus Everett, a fellow author and her formal college rival. The pair spark an unexpected romance after they agree to partake in a writing challenge to get them out of their respective writing ruts.<\/p><p>Joining Dynevor and Schwarzenegger as part of the film's cast are Andie MacDowell, Kevin Bacon, Kristin Davis and Tig Notaro. Kuang, who co-wrote the Netflix film adaptation of author Emily Henry's novel <em>People We Meet on Vacation<\/em>, directs <em>Beach Read<\/em> for 20th Century Studios from her own script.<\/p><p>This is the latest adaptation of one Henry's works, following the release of <em>People We Meet on Vacation<\/em> in January. Three of her other novels \u2014 <em>Book Lovers<\/em>, <em>Funny Story<\/em> and <em>Happy Place<\/em> \u2014 are also currently being adapted for the screen.<\/p><p><em>Disney is the parent company of ABC News and 20th Century Studios.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe Dynevor attends the St. Regis World Snow Polo Championships 2025 at Rio Grande Park on Dec. 18, 2025, in Aspen, Colorado. (Greg Doherty\/Getty Images for St. Regis)Production has officially started on the Beach Read film adaptation.Director Yulin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1513944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/585141fa1af1d2f080394d8505f7d476.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 14:47:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/585141fa1af1d2f080394d8505f7d476.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513945,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513941\/revisions\/1513945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}