GOMEZ JUMPS ON BEEZUS TRAIN
It’s about time they turned Beverly Cleary’s books into movies. New hot tween actress Selena Gomez (from Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place) has signed up to play the older sister Beezus in a big-screen adaptation of Cleary’s Beezus and Ramona, according to the Hollywood Reporter. And 9-year-old Joey King (Quarantine, Medium) beat out a nationwide casting call to win the role of the energetic, accident-prone Ramona, the center of Cleary’s beloved children’s series.
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