Reese Witherspoon’s $142M Comedy Basic Breaks Into Peacock’s High 10 Forward of TV Reboot

Peacock subscribers can’t get sufficient of Legally Blonde. The 2001 comedy starring Reese Witherspoon has damaged into the streamer’s High 10 chart this week.

In accordance with FlixPatrol, Legally Blonde is No. 9 on Peacock’s High 10 Films chart, up a spot from yesterday. It is the oldest film immediately, having hit theaters a superb 4 years earlier than the second-oldest film, Madagascar (No. 5). Legally Blonde‘s streaming resurgence doubtless has to do with the forthcoming premiere of its prequel sequence, Elle, on Prime Video.

Legally Blonde Launched a Comedy Franchise for MGM

Directed by Robert Luketic, Legally Blonde stars Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a sorority lady who makes an attempt to win again her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis), after he dumps her for being “too blonde,” by getting a Juris Physician diploma at Harvard Legislation Faculty.

Alongside Witherspoon, the movie’s major forged featured Selma Blair as Vivian Kensington, Warner’s new fiancée; Luke Wilson as Emmett Richmond, lawyer and love curiosity to Elle; and Jennifer Coolidge because the hilarious nail technician Paulette Bonafonté. Osgood Perkins, Bruce Thomas, Victor Garber, Holland Taylor, and Linda Cardellini additionally star.

Legally Blonde was an enormous stumble on launch, grossing $142 million worldwide on an $18 million price range. The movie, now thought of one of many staple movies of the 2000s, is “recent” on Rotten Tomatoes with a 72% approval score from each critics and audiences.

Legally Blonde was adopted by a sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Pink, White & Blonde, in 2003, with Witherspoon reprising her position as Elle Woods. A direct-to-video spin-off, Legally Blondes, with Witherspoon serving as a producer, was launched in 2009, whereas a stage musical primarily based on the 2001 movie premiered on Broadway in 2007.

Elle Woods Will get Her Origin Story Instructed in New Prime Video Sequence

Whereas a 3rd Legally Blonde film starring Witherspoon has been in growth at MGM since 2018, the subsequent entry within the comedy franchise would be the prequel sequence, Elle, which is able to discover Elle Woods’ teenage years within the Nineteen Nineties. Lexi Minetree has been forged because the youthful Elle Woods, with Witherspoon serving as an government producer.

A primary have a look at Elle was shared by Minetree and Witherspoon in April 2025 to mark the beginning of manufacturing on the prequel. The picture was accompanied by the caption, “Harvard was onerous. Excessive Faculty was more durable.”

Elle additionally stars June Diane Raphael and Tom Everett Scott as Elle’s dad and mom, Eva and Wyatt Woods, Chandler Kinney as Kimberly, Jacob Moskovitz as Miles, Gabrielle Policano as Liz, and Zac Looker as Dustin. The prequel sequence can even characteristic one in all James Van Der Beek’s last roles earlier than his dying. He’ll recur all through the primary season as Dean Wilson, described as “town’s new Mayoral candidate and present college district superintendent.”

Elle is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on July 1, whereas a second season, which is able to add By no means Have I Ever star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to the forged, is within the works.

Launch Date

July 13, 2001

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Robert Luketic