According to its official logline, the new series series “follows Elle Woods in high school as we learn about the life experiences that shaped her into the iconic young woman we came to know and love in the first Legally Blonde film.”
Reese Witherspoon, who played Elle Woods in the original film, announced Minetree’s casting back in February. She shared an emotional clip breaking the news to the young actress, who later thanked her for entrusting her with this role and promised that Elle is in good hands.
Minetree’s previous credits include roles in Law & Order: SVU, The Murdaugh Murders, and The Paramedic Who Stalked Me, and this will mark the first leading role of her career. She’ll be joined by Tom Everett Scott as Elle’s father and June Diane Raphael as her mother.
Elle was created for Amazon Prime Video by Laura Kittrell, who serves as its co-showrunner alongside Caroline Drie. Witherspoon, Marc Platt, Lauren Neustadter, and Lauren Kisilevsky are joining them as executive producers.
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According to the streamer’s official logline, The Morning Show is “an unapologetically candid drama that looks at the modern workplace through the lens of the people who help wake America up.” The series explores the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and the way it impacted the staff of a popular morning news program.
In addition to Aniston and Witherspoon, Steve Carell led the series in Seasons 1 and 2, while the supporting cast includes Mark Duplass, Billy Crudup, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, and Desean Terry. Jon Hamm, Stephen Fry, Tig Notaro, and Nicole Beharie are set to join them in the upcoming third season.
Season 3 of The Morning Show wrapped up back in February and is expected to premiere this year, but it still doesn’t have an official release date. The leading duo’s contracts were up at the end of Season 3 but they’re now expected to sign on for one more season and could even return for Season 5, according to Deadline.
Amazon Prime won a bidding war for this promising half-hour series and gave it a two-season order straight away. The project hails from Witherspoon’s own production company Hello Sunshine, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna serves as its creator and showrunner.
All-Star will center on a former cheerleader from Daytona Beach who moves to coastal England, to teach cheerleading at a tiny school where she must teach a ragtag group of students how to be All-Stars.
In the official statement announcing her collaboration with Amazon, Witherspoon said this project fulfills Hallo Sunshine’s mission to make women the heroes of their own stories to a younger generation for a long time.
“The idea of watching an American woman coming to share the very American sport of cheerleading to a group of young women in the UK just made me so excited! I love that this show is filled with real heart, deep joy and the power of teamwork,” said the actress.
Witherspoon recently concluded filming the third season of The Morning Show and we’ll soon get to see her in the romantic comedy Your Place or Mine.
]]>Witherspoon, whose rom-com credits include Sweet Home Alabama, Election, This Means War, Pleasantville, Home Again, and the Legally Blonde films, will star in two new romantic comedies titled Your Place or Mine and The Cactus.
“We have been looking for the right feature opportunities to collaborate with Ted Sarandos, Scott Stuber, and the entire team at Netflix for a while and we couldn’t be more excited to be working with them on these two romantic comedies,” Witherspoon said in a statement. “Both Sarah Haywood’s and Aline Brosh McKenna’s stories blend everything we love about traditional RomComs with strong, smart, and determined female leads.”
Your Place Or Mine centers on two long-distance best friends who change each other’s lives when one decides to pursue a lifelong dream and the other volunteers to keep an eye on the friend’s teenage son.
The Cactus is based on Haywood’s novel of the same name. It focuses on a woman’s unexpected pregnancy at 45 years old, causing her to rethink the structured life she has created for herself. She then goes on an unconventional journey toward love, family, and learning to embrace the unexpected.
Witherspoon will produce the projects through her Hello Sunshine company.
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The series was created by Liz Tigelaar and stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The duo is also executive producers on the show.
“We had been looking for a project to do with Kerry for a long time,” Witherspoon said at the Television Critics Association presentation on Friday. “When I read the book, it just had so many themes that were very complex and I knew whoever was going to be my partner… who was going to show up to do the work because it’s a lot of work. The first person who I thought was perfect was Kerry. She deepens the conversation and I knew I wanted to go on this journey with her. It just made sense that we were representing completely different kinds of women and different kinds of mothering but both with dignity and respect.”
“Adding the layer of race to that really enriches the storytelling,” Washington added. “The book also deals with race and does a great job of stepping away from the binary idea of race.”
Little Fires Everywhere debuts March 18 on Hulu.
You can watch the trailer below.
The trailer comes just days after a cryptic first-look teaser was released by Apple.
The highly anticipated show stars Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston, and Reese Witherspoon. It explores the internal strife of and interpersonal drama between the morning news show’s co-anchors (Aniston and Carrell) and a newcomer (Witherspoon).
The backdrop of the show is pretty much self-explanatory — the set and studio of a morning news program, which we now learn are in the middle of “an epic rebirth,” following allegations made against Carrell’s character and Jennifer’s beloved character “break down.”
The Morning Show also stars Mark Duplass and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Apple’s TV Plus streaming service launches this fall.
The image of Witherspoon and Washington in character was shared on social media.
“Bringing it back to the ‘90s! Meet Mia Warren and Elena Richardson. So excited to be shooting @LittleFiresHulu with the incredibly talented @kerrywashington! 
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The cast also includes Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson.
According to the official logline, the story follows “the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood — and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.”
“At Hello Sunshine, we strive to shine a light on female-driven stories that are rooted in inspiration, emotion, and truth – all of which form the bedrock of Celeste Ng’s ingenious work,” said Witherspoon back when the show was ordered.
“We are so proud to be part of this team to tell this extraordinary story inspired by Celeste Ng’s phenomenal novel and we are thrilled to be embarking on this journey with Hulu,” Washington added. “As an actress, I am floored to have the opportunity to work alongside Reese Witherspoon exploring the rich themes of this story playing these dynamic characters.”
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Little America
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Multiple outlets report the creator of Big Little Lies have given some heavy hints that the series is more than likely end after a two-season run.
During the Television Critics Association press tour Friday, both cast and the creative team told reporters that there are plans for future seasons. Creator and executive producer David E. Kelley said, “There’s no such plan now. “It’s one and two, and we like our closure with season two, but that will probably be it.”
Nicole Kidman, star and executive producer added, “There’s no plan for it to end, specifically. This was a long shoot for us, and it was an enormous amount of work, and we’re just amazed that we can be here. Not to compare it to the first one because artistically it’s a wonderful thing to take something and go and the success of the first one was so massive, so we go, ‘OK, let’s jump off the cliff.’ But at the same time, it is its own entity and
The first
Big Little Lies is set to return in June.
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Witherspoon herself is a big fan of the novel, selecting it for her book club. The book is Delia Owens’ debut novel and has been on the best-seller list for the past 12 weeks.
“With a jaw-dropping mystery, stunning Southern setting, and endlessly fascinating female heroine at its center, I loved this book the moment I read it and am so excited to join forces with Elizabeth and her team to bring Delia’s truly moving page-turner to the screen,” Witherspoon said in a statement.
“I knew and loved Delia’s writing so when I saw that Reese’s Book Club was recommending her new book, I started reading it right away. It is absolutely exquisite, so I immediately reached out to Reese and Lauren and said I wanted to bring it to life on film alongside them,” Elizabeth Gabler of Fox 2000 said in a statement. “We at Fox 2000 have an incredible synergy with Reese, Lauren, and their team at Hello Sunshine, and I am elated that we can once again be partners in the creation of yet another extraordinary film from an outstanding literary property.”
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