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This next movie is one that I cannot wait to see. Talk about a powerful female cast: Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton have teamed up for Hollywood's latest comedy, 'Book Club'. The women form a Book club, and surprise surprise - the book of choice is none other than E.L. James' "Fifty Shades of Gray" - which in real life, has already been adapted into three films. "Book Club" premiered in Los Angeles on Sunday, with hopes to gain audiences with a genre of film not seen for some time.
'Book Club' follows four aging women who get together for a book club. And when one of them suggests 'Fifty Shades of Grey', it changes the way the women look at love and life.
Actress Jane Fonda, who plays Vivian in the film, told Reuters she thought the film's subject and release are a product of systematic change in Hollywood.
JANE FONDA ACTRESS "I don't think this is a moment, I think it's a movement - me too, Time's Up. I don't think it's an accident that a movie like the 'Book Club' comes out right now. It's a timely movie and I think we're going to start seeing differences, yeah, I do, in Hollywood."
Richard Dreyfuss also talked about how the film with four veteran leading ladies was breaking the mold in modern Hollywood.
RICHARD DREYFUSS ACTOR "They're only changing by coming home. This is the way films started. They did films like this all through the 30s and 40s. We have no cultural memory so we don't know that."
Aside from Fonda, the other leading ladies in the film are Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton. Despite a plethora of awards and nominations between them, Bergen said the film was a difficult one to get off the ground.
CANDICE BERGEN ACTRESS "It's a miracle. We didn't even know we'd get the money to make it. We didn't know if we'd get a distributor. It was all sorts of, And suddenly it seems to be a movie that people are responding to so we're thrilled."
The film, which is co-written and co-produced by Bill Holderman and Erin Simms, is set to come out the same weekend as "Deadpool 2".
ERIN SIMMS & BILL HOLDERMAN WRITER AND PRODUCER Erin Simms: "This is the kind of movie that I want to see and I haven't been able to see one in a really long time because it doesn't exist so let's see if the audience actually comes out." Bill Holderman: "Bring it on, Marvel." Erin Simms: "Bring it on, Marvel. Bring it on, people." Bill Holderman: "This is our Avengers." Erin Simms: "Deadpool has nothing on us."
The film is slated for release on May 18th.