By Dave McNary Film Reporter Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights, excluding domestic television, to the upcoming Julia Child documentary from “RBG” filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West.
The film, currently in production under the working title “Julia,” is being produced by West, Cohen and Imagine Documentaries’ Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein. “Julia” will use never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and “cutting edge” food cinematography.
The project will trace Child’s path, from her struggles to create and publish 1961’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her become an unlikely television sensation from her show “The
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