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Nora Ephron, whose credits include "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail," will soon return to the big screen with "Julie & Julia," in which Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell. The film, which will open Aug. 7, 2009, is an adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France" by Julia Child.
Based on two true stories, "Julie & Julia" intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. The trailer for the film popped up recently, and you can check it out after the jump. Looks kind of delicious, even though I really hate Adams' haircut.
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1. Rich Ross, President, Disney Channels Worldwide A lifelong TV addict, Ross has expanded Disney's channels beyond the box into film, radio, mobile, and online. But he'll be remembered most for unleashing Hannah Montana and High School Musical on the world.
2. James Schamus, Chief executive officer, Focus Features In addition to being a CEO, he's a veteran screenwriter, Columbia University film professor, producer, marketer, distributor, and sometime composer. Schamus, 49, cofounded Focus in 2002, which has produced Oscar winners Milk and Lost in Translation. Coming soon: Taking Woodstock, Schamus's latest screenplay for director Ang Lee.
3. Jj Abrams, Founder, Bad Robot Productions Star Trek is winning the summer box office race, thanks to Abrams' ability to warp time at will. Past, present, and future coexist as a kind of fluid that cannot be contained in his movies and TV shows. The camera jumps back and forth in time. Characters age and grow younger again.
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When you juxtapose two cultures on top of each other you have incredible potential for comedy. You can use a variety of device to mine the premise for all its comedic gold: fish out of water (Coming to America), misinterpretation (The Gods Must Be Crazy), full-out mockery (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls), and so on. These are the overarching themes that combine smaller tools of comedy to make a full movie. The Other End of the Line falls short of completing one of these themes and never rises any higher than joke after joke of colloquialisms.
Granger Woodruff (Jesse Metcalfe) runs a small marketing firm that has recently run into a few snags. Their biggest potential client, a major hotel chain, rejects their latest pitch sending them back to the drawing board. To make matters worth, Granger discovers that he's been the
Lex Walker

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