This summer as usual is full of big action packed blockbusters AND for the second year in a row (and the last 3 out of 4 years) a Meryl Streep flick. I still wish we would get over the whole counterprogramming and fluke discussion. The thing I love most about this is that Meryl Streep was a movie star who became a box office success. Until a couple of years ago no one thought it possible but this woman who gets nominated for basically everything she is in, can now print dollar bills. In case you care the world wide gross of Mamma Mia! is up to $600 million.
I am more than excited to see Julie & Julia and I have never cooked a french dish in my life. I know very little about Julia Child but I do remember seeing her in passing on PBS when I was a kid. I love the fact that she went to Smith, and was a spy. I also think it’s smart that the movie (written and directed by Nora Ephron) uses Child’s autobiography as well as the memoir Julie & Julia for its basis.
USA Today and EW both help build the anticipation with recent pieces. USA Today calls Streep “the streep-inator” and this is from EW’s summer preview issue:
Thanks to The Devil Wears Prada and last year’s Mamma Mia!, Streep has become the queen of counterprogramming, a box office draw for predominantly female audiences hungry for movies that are pyrotechnics-free. ”It’s completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it,” says Streep of her newfound bankability. ”Which is so thrilling!” Adds Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal, ”Every now and then, the world rediscovers there’s a female audience — ‘Oh, my God! Women go to the movies!”’
OMG, women go to the movies! Duh! Put August 7 in your calendar now!
Meryl Streep was steeped in Julia Child for ‘Julia’ role (USA Today)
Nora Ephron cooks up a rich stew filming ‘Julie & Julia’ (USA Today)
Julie & Julia Summer Preview (EW)
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I’m very excited about this movie–I remember reading Julie’s blog and how she finished going through the cookbook and then announced the blog was going away because she’d sold the book! And now it’s a movie with Meryl Streep YAY.
Two Julias
I can’t wait for this to come out. It looks as though it might be really good! No doubt Streep’ll be magnificent, yet again.
I’m looking forward to this.
You know, if Meryl Streep ever did a film with pyrotechnics she would be able to take over the world! :)
Cannot wait for this one.
Of course women go to the movies.
I totally have the opening dates for this and for Amelia (Oct 23) marked in my calendar.
More female-centric movies please! And not those stupid ones that dudes always make where all the characters are obsessed with shoes and spend the whole time planning thier g-damn fairy tale dream wedding!! Blech!
I find it fascinating that filmmakers think that women don’t go to movies. Women (obviously) make up 50% of the population, yet when 99% of movies are marketed to 13 year old boys, these same people seem surprised that adult women don’t rush to see those films. Can’t imagine why. bleh.
If I was male, that article would offend me to the core. There are plenty of men who would like to see character driven films. And as a woman, I love pyro-technics. The films that Gale Ann Hurd produced are on the top of my fave film list. Of course, they are character driven, action films.
I suppose the writer of that article must think most of the greatest films ever made, including all those phenomenally low budget, simply made 70′s films – are “chick flicks” because they are “pyro-technic free”.
My how sexism shrinks the mind and narrows the perception to the circumference of a pin.
I can’t wait to tell my ex-husband about this film. He knew he was going to be a chef by age 7. He’ll LOVE this.