Bring your pink suit to the dry cleaners because Legally Blonde is making a comeback, and you’ll want to dress to impress! According to Deadline, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine company will partner with Amazon MGM Studios for a Legally Blonde spinoff TV series. The long-anticipated project comes from Gossip Girl writers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who will also produce through their Fake Empire studio. Plot details remain a mystery, though Witherspoon’s involvement with the project gives me good vibes.
Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter will produce the Legally Blonde spinoff TV series via Hello Sunshine alongside Legally Blonde film producer Marc Platt. Deadline says there’s a chance we could get more than one spinoff series inspired by Legally Blonde, but details are fuzzier than the eraser toppers Elle Woods keeps in her purse.
Released in 2001, Legally Blonde stars Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen whom her boyfriend dumps.
Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter will produce the Legally Blonde spinoff TV series via Hello Sunshine alongside Legally Blonde film producer Marc Platt. Deadline says there’s a chance we could get more than one spinoff series inspired by Legally Blonde, but details are fuzzier than the eraser toppers Elle Woods keeps in her purse.
Released in 2001, Legally Blonde stars Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen whom her boyfriend dumps.
- 4/4/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Writer-director Jonathan Wysocki’s feature film debut, “Dramarama” is set for a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles, Calif., beginning Aug. 13.
The coming-of-age comedy was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and first premiered at Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival last summer. It has since screened at San Francisco International Film Festival, Scad Savannah Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival and BFI Flare and won the Audience Award at the Oxford Film Festival.
Set in Escondido, Calif., in 1994, “Dramarama” unfolds at the end of summer as protagonist Gene is preparing for his high school drama friends’ final murder mystery slumber party. The party host, a theatrical Rose, will leave for college the next morning, followed by earnest Claire, magnetic Oscar and sarcastic Ally. All of Gene’s friends are leaving, but he’s more occupied with another pressing problem. Determined to come out as gay, Gene...
The coming-of-age comedy was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and first premiered at Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival last summer. It has since screened at San Francisco International Film Festival, Scad Savannah Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival and BFI Flare and won the Audience Award at the Oxford Film Festival.
Set in Escondido, Calif., in 1994, “Dramarama” unfolds at the end of summer as protagonist Gene is preparing for his high school drama friends’ final murder mystery slumber party. The party host, a theatrical Rose, will leave for college the next morning, followed by earnest Claire, magnetic Oscar and sarcastic Ally. All of Gene’s friends are leaving, but he’s more occupied with another pressing problem. Determined to come out as gay, Gene...
- 6/24/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
Kevin Kline, Tom Selleck kiss, In & Out Following my Valentine's Day post featuring lots of male-female kisses and embraces (and a few shapely legs, bare breasts, and sensuous lips, courtesy of, respectively, Silvana Mangano, Clara Calamai, and Jane Russell), here's the gay/lesbian version. This Gay Kiss Montage post was originally published in June 2007, when Turner Classic Movies ran a couple of dozen films featuring gay/lesbian/bi/etc. characters as part of their Screened Out series. Created in late 2006 by Robert Eldredge, the video was inspired by the finale of Giuseppe Tornatore's Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner Cinema Paradiso, in which Jacques Perrin watches clips — kisses, hugs, embraces, nudity, sensuality, expressions of human desire — that, decades earlier, had been cut from the films screened at his Italian village's old movie house. The local Catholic priest had found those bits of celluloid harmful to the town's morals and family values.
- 2/15/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Troika Pictures produces and finances genre films mostly for a young audience, focusing on thrillers, comedies and action films – Joel Schumacher’s suspense thriller The Hive is certainly one of them.
Penned by Rich D’Ovidio (Exit Wounds), the story follows an emergency operator who must confront a killer from her past to save a young girl’s life.
Joel Schumacher jumps around in genres whether or not he succeeds, but among his best-known works are thrillers. He has struggled with no wins in the past few years to find the script – I am primarily referring to Twelve and Blood Creek – but his upcoming Trespass may not be the case; troubled Nicolas Cage is starring and it is set for release this September.
Other projects include contemporary love story Paradise Cove, with probably Kenny Ortega to direct; Ice Cube‘s Ten (Peter Cornwell is attached to direct), and rom-com One...
Penned by Rich D’Ovidio (Exit Wounds), the story follows an emergency operator who must confront a killer from her past to save a young girl’s life.
Joel Schumacher jumps around in genres whether or not he succeeds, but among his best-known works are thrillers. He has struggled with no wins in the past few years to find the script – I am primarily referring to Twelve and Blood Creek – but his upcoming Trespass may not be the case; troubled Nicolas Cage is starring and it is set for release this September.
Other projects include contemporary love story Paradise Cove, with probably Kenny Ortega to direct; Ice Cube‘s Ten (Peter Cornwell is attached to direct), and rom-com One...
- 4/26/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
It's been a rough few years for Joel Schumacher -- rougher than most for the director who is often lambasted for his Batman films, regardless of the fact that he's made a couple of solid pictures since then. He bombed with the Jim Carrey film The Number 23 in 2007, then saw Blood Creek dumped in dollar theaters, and Twelve was critically savaged as one of the worst films of 2010. Now he's in post-production on the potentially more satisfying Trespass, which stars Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet and Ben Mendelsohn. And he's now set to direct a new thriller called The Hive. Variety [1] says the film is about "an emergency operator who must confront a killer from her past to save a young girl's life." The screenwriter is Rich D'Ovidio, who wrote Exit Wounds and did some rewrite work on Thirteen Ghosts. We don't have any casting for The Hive at this point,...
- 4/25/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
When a comedy requires more suspension of disbelief than The Abyss, you know there’s a problem. Legally Blonde won over audiences by having just enough humility to know that its plot was ludicrous, while still shoeing in some laughs to melt even the most cynical hearts. And then they made a sequel, and they stretched the joke more than it could take. Legally Blonde 2 took the aspects of the original that just barely stayed within the limits of good taste and warped them into some horrific monster capable of slaying comedy and all its loved ones. Movies like Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde represent the death of comedy.
Hot off her shallow victory in the original, Elle (Reese Witherspoon) has two big tasks ahead of her. First she has to plan the perfect wedding after her too-smart-for-her boyfriend (Luke Wilson) proposes. Second, she has to fight animal testing...
Hot off her shallow victory in the original, Elle (Reese Witherspoon) has two big tasks ahead of her. First she has to plan the perfect wedding after her too-smart-for-her boyfriend (Luke Wilson) proposes. Second, she has to fight animal testing...
- 4/3/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
August 7, 2010: On the eve of the release of her film Aisha, Rajshree Ojha, the director of the film, tells Jyothi Venkatesh that if the content of a film is good, the rest will fall in place.
Did you assist any director before you made your debut with Chaurahe?
I confess that till date I havn’t assisted any Indian director. I had been an assistant to Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, who, besides being my mentor, had directed Legally Blonde 2. Jonathan was an independent director, who had also made the film Kissing Jessica Stein.
In what way is filmmaking different in India?
Filmmaking, per se, is the same whether in India or abroad. What I feel is lacking here is the will to respect the director. In filmmaking.
Did you assist any director before you made your debut with Chaurahe?
I confess that till date I havn’t assisted any Indian director. I had been an assistant to Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, who, besides being my mentor, had directed Legally Blonde 2. Jonathan was an independent director, who had also made the film Kissing Jessica Stein.
In what way is filmmaking different in India?
Filmmaking, per se, is the same whether in India or abroad. What I feel is lacking here is the will to respect the director. In filmmaking.
- 8/7/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
When studios put out themed DVD collections for whatever occasion, the final result rarely does the subject in question justice. When they seek to honor independent flicks they typically just go for the most popular ones and not the best. For foreign films they’ll select the few that actually made ripples and not the underdog that had to fight for every theater screen. However, when MGM compiled its Cinema Pride Collection in honor of June being Gay Pride month they hit the nail on the head – and they hit it dead on. The collection not only features some of the favorites within the gay community but it features a few highly acclaimed heavy hitters as well. This may just be one of the best box sets a studio has ever released that isn’t based on one actor or director’s filmography. It has variety and it has quality in spades.
- 6/13/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Find Interview with Jason Bushman by Jennifer Wilson
On the eve of Hollywood, je t'aime's upcoming DVD Release, writer/director and 2009 La Film Festival alum, Jason Bushman, stopped by to talk about the film, gay marriage, and upcoming projects. The DVD is available December 8 through Wolfe Video.
Hollywood, je t'aime is your first feature. Did you have any idea things would go so well on your first time out?
It's amazing how quickly everything fell into place because we just shot the film in January 2009. Like so many La people, I've been writing scripts for a long time. I wrote this in February of 2008 and Charlie (producer Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) read it and really liked it. Strangely, the recession kind of worked in our favor because we got people who were not working who were eager to work. And then when we heard we got into Los Angeles Film Festival this June,...
On the eve of Hollywood, je t'aime's upcoming DVD Release, writer/director and 2009 La Film Festival alum, Jason Bushman, stopped by to talk about the film, gay marriage, and upcoming projects. The DVD is available December 8 through Wolfe Video.
Hollywood, je t'aime is your first feature. Did you have any idea things would go so well on your first time out?
It's amazing how quickly everything fell into place because we just shot the film in January 2009. Like so many La people, I've been writing scripts for a long time. I wrote this in February of 2008 and Charlie (producer Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) read it and really liked it. Strangely, the recession kind of worked in our favor because we got people who were not working who were eager to work. And then when we heard we got into Los Angeles Film Festival this June,...
- 12/8/2009
- Film Independent
This weekend's opening of Julie & Julia came and went without a ton of fanfare - at least not the kind of fanfare that came with G.I. Joe. But Julie & Julia represents a watershed moment in cinematic history. It's the first blog to be adapted into a feature film. Since Fsr actually started as a blog (and evolved into what is clearly an online equestrian health magazine), we have a soft spot in our hearts for them right next to the soft spot we have for movie theater butter and the actual, physical soft spot that was created by eating too much movie theater butter. The future of filmmaking is bound to include more than a few blogs as subject material (since studios love playing follow the leader), so we figured we'd get a head start and present 10 of the Blogs we think would do well on the big screen. 10. Andrew...
- 8/11/2009
- by Dr. Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Neil Pedley
Sxsw recently concluded a week-long unveiling of some of the best and brightest new talent that indie film has to offer, but that didn't deter established players from forging ahead with the fine traditions that have this week brought us an Owen Wilson kiddie comedy, a poker mockumentary and an imitation of whatever Asian cinema was doing four years ago.
"Boarding Gate"
Three-time Palme D'Or nominee Olivier Assayas delivers a sleek and sexually charged thriller that stars the irresistible Asia Argento as a gal on the run from Europe to Asia as she indulges in affairs with both Michael Madsen's high-flying financier and the hit man sent to target him. If you can take your eyes off of Argento, keep one eye open for a supporting turn by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.
Opens in limited release.
"Drillbit Taylor"
Judd Apatow tries to appeal to the...
Sxsw recently concluded a week-long unveiling of some of the best and brightest new talent that indie film has to offer, but that didn't deter established players from forging ahead with the fine traditions that have this week brought us an Owen Wilson kiddie comedy, a poker mockumentary and an imitation of whatever Asian cinema was doing four years ago.
"Boarding Gate"
Three-time Palme D'Or nominee Olivier Assayas delivers a sleek and sexually charged thriller that stars the irresistible Asia Argento as a gal on the run from Europe to Asia as she indulges in affairs with both Michael Madsen's high-flying financier and the hit man sent to target him. If you can take your eyes off of Argento, keep one eye open for a supporting turn by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.
Opens in limited release.
"Drillbit Taylor"
Judd Apatow tries to appeal to the...
- 3/17/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde director Charles Herman- Wurmfeld believes his new comedy is "politically subversive" - despite its harmless appearance. The new comedy sees Reese Witherspoon's hapless Elle Woods character move into politics - and Herman-Wurmfeld is urging audiences to look out for the political subtext of the movie, which he hopes hasn't been masked by the way the film has been marketed. He says, "I think this movie is deceptive, it's subversive. Though sometimes I feel like we've been so watered down that no one's going to notice. I saw in this new movie this greater political consciousness thing going on. When I read it, I thought this is like a manual for grass-roots activism. It's literally a like 'how to' of becoming political. My concern is that it's perceived and marketed as a kind of flag-waving, patriotic, fourth of July celebration, and I think it will be sold to Americans that way to a certain extent. But I think they're going to get a lot of medicine with their spoonful of sugar."...
- 7/7/2003
- WENN
Variety reports that Charlie Herman-Wurmfeld (Kissing Jessica Stein) is in final negotiations to direct Reese Witherspoon in the sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde for MGM. On the fast track to begin shooting in November, the sequel features Witherspoon throwing her pink hat in the political ring, moving to Washington, D.C., to run for political office. In keeping with the film's title, MGM has already picked next summer's Fourth of July weekend as the film's official release date. Witherspoon will produce Legally Blonde 2 through her Intermedia-based production company Type A Films.
- 9/10/2002
- IMDbPro News
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