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Three movie-related stories in this post.
Warner Independent Pictures has screened In The Land of Women at the Cannes Film Festival, reports Variety. Variety itself has a short review at their site.

A strong cast struggles valiantly to rise above Lifetime material in "In the Land of Women," an appealingly scruffy if overly programmatic drama. Writer-director Jonathan Kasdan's tale about a young man emerging from his relational cocoon rests squarely on the shoulders of its trio of talented lead actors, whose names should draw a limited audience to the Warner Independent PicturesWarner Independent Pictures feature.Played by "The OC's" Adam BrodyAdam Brody in his patented so-dorky-he's-cool fashion, 26-year-old aspiring writer Carter Webb has just been dumped by his supermodel g.f. Sophia (Elena Anaya). Leaving L.A., Carter moves in with his half-deranged grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) in suburban Michigan, where he becomes entangled with beautiful housewife Sarah Hardwicke (Meg RyanMeg Ryan, radiating her trademark charm in a much lower key) and her adolescent daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart). Pic doesn't provide a clear sense of where it's headed early on, which is why the eventual developments can't help but feel derivative. Dialogue alternates between insightful and twee, yet Kasdan elicits strong performance all around.

There are also some rumors about another possible movieproject: Laurie Horowitz' debut novel "THE FAMILY FORTUNE". The book has already been optioned to International Entertainment Group with Meg apparently signed on for the lead. The novel is a modern remake of Jane Austen's "Persuasion".

On May 16th Meg and pal Laura Dern attended the LA premiere and afterparty for An Inconvenient Truth, a movie by former VP Al Gore. Meg and Laura skipped the red carpet, but didn't escape the photographers when greeting Al Gore at the afterparty.


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