Ryan Murphy has been dethroned. Tembi and Attica Locke’s limited series From Scratch has taken over from The Watcher as the most-viewed series on Netflix last week.
19.10.2022 - 02:29 / variety.com
Katie Reul editor When executive producer and Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was tasked with casting a performer to play Amy Wheeler in “From Scratch,” Netflix’s limited series adaptation of Tembi Locke’s memoir, she looked no further than her dinner table. Witherspoon was dining across from Zoe Saldaña, who was accompanied by her Italian husband and exchanging bits of dialogue in his native tongue, when she realized the “Avatar” star would be the perfect actor to play Amy. The show is an epic love story about Amy’s whirlwind romance with a hunky Sicilian chef named Lino (Eugenio Mastrandrea), who she meets while studying abroad in Italy. When Lino is diagnosed with cancer, the couple must reconcile with family and navigate their love in the face of imminent loss.
“I don’t know if there’s a lot of romance in the world right now,” Witherspoon told Variety on Monday at the series’ pilot episode screening in Los Angeles. “We haven’t seen a modern romance that’s a true story like this in quite some time, so it’s really beautiful to see Zoe Saldaña — who actually has married an Italian man and speaks Italian on film — to watch that love story happen and know that it is so deeply personal to her.” Though the project marks Saldaña and Witherspoon’s first time collaborating together, Saldaña was already familiar with some of the cast and crew when she joined the production as an actor and executive producer — particularly Judith Scott, who played her mother in the 2005 comedy “Guess Who.” “From Scratch” also marks Attica Locke’s second production with Hello Sunshine, Witherspoon’s female-forward media company, following the release of “Little Fires Everywhere” in 2020. On the upcoming release, Attica served as
Ryan Murphy has been dethroned. Tembi and Attica Locke’s limited series From Scratch has taken over from The Watcher as the most-viewed series on Netflix last week.
The teaser trailer for The Bast Man: The Final Chapters dropped during the Urbanworld Film Festival, the same event where the film originally premiered in 1999. The Peacock limited series will premiere all 8 episodes on December 22. Watch the trailer in the video posted above.
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Amazon Studios has unveiled the first stills from its holiday romantic comedy Something from Tiffany’s, starring Zoey Deutch (Not Okay) and Kendrick Sampson (Insecure), which is poised to launch globally on Prime Video on December 9th.
Attica and Tembi Locke are the creative duo, showrunner/writers, executive producers and sisters behind Netflix’s limited series From Scratch, which premiered on the streamer Friday. The film stars Zoe Saldana, Danielle Deadwyler, Keith David, Kellita Smith, Eugenio Mastrandrea and Judith Scott.
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Based on a memoir by Tembi Locke, who developed the miniseries with her sister Attica Locke (“When They See Us”), “From Scratch” is a heartfelt, if sometimes overlong, story of two very different families becoming one through love and loss. Anchored by a strong lead performance from Zoe Saldaña, whose depth keeps the series from becoming a walking live, laugh, love sign.
, and star Zoe Saldana is opening up about bringing the true story to the screen in the new Netflix romantic drama series.Saldana spoke with ET's Cassie DiLaura at a special screening of in Los Angeles on Monday, and she reflected on the beautiful and emotional challenge of starring in the project, based on the memoir of the same name by Tembi Locke.«You do know that you’re walking into a story where you know that their fate was not as everybody was hoping for,» Saldana explained. «But then you meet someone like Tembi Locke, who is the most hopeful individual -- just like a ray of light — who has basically set the tone of what it means to start from scratch. Regardless whether you’re starting from scratch in a new country, in a brand new marriage, in a brand new love, also in a brand new transition in life and a new journey.»«Her book, her memoir, was just so genuinely sincere and it really talked about how complex grief can be,» an emotional Saldana shared.
Zoe Saldana and Reese Witherspoon have teamed up for a new limited series on Netflix!
Zoe Saldana and Camila Mendes pose for a few pictures together during the Netflix & Elle Celebration of Latinas in Hollywood held at Ka’teen on Sunday (October 16)in Los Angeles.
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continue to dominate ABC's lineup on Monday and Tuesday this week. Then there's George Clooney and Julia Roberts's rom-com , which is so visually stunning it will make you want to book a ticket to a far-away island.
Peacock has taken in for development Fear, a series based on the 1996 thriller film, from The Path creator Jessica Goldberg, Imagine Television and Universal TV, Deadline has confirmed.
Reese Witherspoon steps out in two stylish looks in New York City on Wednesday (October 5).
Katie Reul editor Russian-born con-artist Anna Sorokin, better known by her alias “Anna Delvey,” is being released from federal jail on a $10,000 bail bond after being arrested by immigration authorities for overstaying her visa in March 2021. Sorokin is required to remain in a 24-hour home confinement with electronic monitoring and no access to social media, per Bloomberg. “We are extremely gratified by the court’s decision today to release Anna Sorokin,” said Duncan Levin, Sorokin’s lawyer. “The judge rightfully recognized that Anna is not a danger to the community.” One month prior to her arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, Sorokin was released on parole for good behavior after serving just three years of her four-to-12 year sentence. She was first convicted in May 2019 on eight counts, including theft of services and grand larceny.