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EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Diaz has recovered a caller starring conveyance successful a sequel to nan ’80s cult drama Troop Beverly Hills successful improvement astatine TriStar Pictures, Deadline has learned.
Plot specifications are nether wraps. Clea DuVall is group to nonstop from her ain script, reuniting pinch nan workplace aft helming their critically acclaimed LGBTQ+ rom-com Happiest Season starring Kristen Stewart.
Laurence Mark (The Greatest Showman, Dreamgirls) will nutrient alongside Diaz and her business partner, Katherine Power, pinch whom she co-founded nan integrated vino marque Avaline.
Diaz reenters business pinch Sony aft starring successful their Charlie’s Angels reboot of 2000 that grossed complete $200M worldwide, their beloved rom-com The Holiday which grossed complete $200MWW, and their R-rated drama Bad Teacher, which did nan same.
Released by Columbia Pictures successful 1989, Troop Beverly Hills was based connected events successful nan life of writer-producer Ava Fries, who had shaper and story-by in installments connected nan original. A prima conveyance for Shelley Long astatine nan tallness of her post-Cheers movie run, nan drama had her playing a making out Beverly Hills housewife trying to beryllium to her girl that she tin unsmooth it arsenic a Wilderness Girls leader.
Jeff Kanew directed from a book by Pamela Norris and Margaret Oberman, pinch Weintraub Entertainment producing.
After much than a decade distant from acting, Diaz returned past twelvemonth pinch nan aptly titled Back successful Action, a deed action-comedy wherever she starred other Jamie Foxx. Earning 46.8 cardinal views successful its first 3 days, successful nan biggest opening for an English-language movie connected Netflix since The Adam Project 3 years prior, nan movie did nan biggest streaming numbers of immoderate connected nan level successful nan first half of 2025 and presently sits arsenic nan streamer’s 7th most-popular movie of each time.
Diaz will adjacent beryllium seen successful Jonah Hill’s Apple acheronian drama Outcome, retired April 10, and reprising her domiciled arsenic Princess Fiona successful Shrek 5, retired December 23. Upcoming, she’ll besides return to Netflix pinch Bad Day, an action-comedy from Jury Duty‘s Jake Szymanski. Most precocious astatine activity connected an untitled rom-com for Amazon MGM wherever she stars other Stephen Merchant, she is repped by LBI Entertainment.
DuVall’s Happiest Season earned nan number 1 spot connected Hulu and became nan most-watched original movie connected nan level successful its 2020 opening play aft being licensed to nan streamer by Sony. Previously, she co-created and starred successful Fox’s animated bid HouseBroken, wrote, directed and exec produced nan Sundance dramedy The Intervention, and directed connected Peacock’s Poker Face.
As an actor, DuVall is besides good known for roles successful Veep, The Handmaid’s Tale, The First Lady, American Horror Story, Argo, and overmuch more. She is repped by UTA and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
