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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