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Julie Powell, a chef and blogger whose year-long project to cook each recipe of Julia Child's groundbreaking cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking became a best-selling memoir that was adapted by Nora Ephron into the hit 2009 film Julie & Julia, died of cardiac arrest Oct. 26 at her home in Upstate…

Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s Julia Child documentary Julia is to be given a linear TV showing on CNN later this month. The theatrical feature, which is exec produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Michael Rosenberg, explores the celebrated TV chef’s near-10-year toil testing recipes and exchanging notes with two…

Sony Pictures Classics releases Telluride-darling documentary Julia with a national TV push, culinary events and virtual screenings through November hosted by famous chefs from Alice Waters (San Francisco) and Johnny Spero (Boston) to Jamie Bissonnette (Houston) and luminaries from New York, LA, Philly and…

In the early 1960s, American "cuisine" meant for convenient but fairly nasty stuff. Example: this recipe for "Crusty Tuna Surprise." Take two cans of StarKist Tuna, mix with cheese soup, "then top it crisply with Kellogg's Corn Flakes Crumbs." Yum. Then Julia Child arrived, armed with sauce pans and cast iron…

Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for Julia, the documentary about groundbreaking TV chef and author Julia Child who ended up influencing generations with her series The French Chef and the seminal cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The documentary, which doesn’t have a release date yet, hails…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max's Julia Child drama has rounded out its cast. Julia, which stars Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire in the title role, has added Robert Joy, Erin Neufer, James Cromwell and Adriane Lenox. Joy, who star on Broadway's The Girl From the North Country and has appeared in Prodigal Son, will play Hunter Fox…

HBO Max has picked up to series its drama pilot Julia, giving an eight-episode order to the project based on the life of world-renowned chef Julia Child. Starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce, the series from Chris Keyser (The Society, Party of Five), Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment is…

A long-gestating Julia Child series project at HBO Max is nearing a greenlight with Joan Cusack in negotiations to play the famous chef and TV personality. The series comes from writer/executive producer Daniel Goldfarb, executive producer Chris Keyser, Lionsgate TV and company-owned 3 Arts. It is one of two streaming…