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The Women

This film is written by Diane English of Murphy Brown fame, and stars an amazing cast. It's a remake of the George Kukor film from 1939 and has taken English a tortuous 15 years to get to the screen. Even though the film was only made for $16.5 million, it is slated currently for only a limited release on September 12. Why isn't the studio capitalizing more on the wave of Sex and the City? Nikki Finke thinks it's because Warner Bros is run by a woman-hater:

Jeff Robinov (who keeps maintaining he was just joking when he said he didn't want to make any more motion pictures with women as the leads) recently screened The Women and didn't like it. "It's not Sex In The City. It's just not that kind of movie," a studio insider insisted to me. Puh-leeze, who indeed wants a low-budget $16.5 million chick flick written, directed and produced by one of the biz's greatest women's comedy writers of seminal Murphy Brown fame... That stars quality "name" actress like Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Debi Mazur, Joanna Gleason, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield and Cloris Leachman... That reworks the original so it takes place in the broadcasting world and an ashram-like retreat where Meg plays a fashion designer and wife and mother, Eva the skanky mistress, and Annette the deliciously two-faced BFF and so on...

I think this film looks like fun, and what a cast!