Sentences with phrase «footloose remake»

On the bright side, The Thing - quel screened at the same time as the Footloose remake, so thanks for that.

In it, they claimed that Paramount's Footloose remake was on track to gross $ 20 million for the weekend, which was considered a -LSB-...]

When they released the trailer for the new Footloose remake, it didn't seem to impress many people.

Variety is reporting that director / choreographer Kenny Ortega (High School Musical, This is It) will now helm the big screen adaptation of the Tony Award - winning Broadway musical, In the Heights, after leaving the planned Footloose remake earlier this year.

Zac Efron is desperate for Kevin Bacon to help him with his moves for the forthcoming FOOTLOOSE remake.

If the Footloose remake had its own signature dance, it'd be called the Push - Pull, as this hip - to - be-sorta-square movie, much like the small - town teens within it, has a mind for propelling itself toward a progressive future while continually being yanked back by cherished hallmarks of the past.

Kenny Wormald steps into Kevin Bacon's sneakers in the Footloose remake.

In case you haven't heard, there's a Footloose remake hitting theaters next month.

But this Footloose remake is pretty well done, with clever nods to the original alongside subtle improvements.

Not exact matches

Even remake director Craig Brewer thought so at first, revealing in his meaty solo commentary that his first reaction upon hearing the project was, «You can't remake Footloose!

The «Footloose» remake, much like the original film, follows Ren (now played by Kenny Wormald) as he moves from a northern city to a small southern town.

While the «Footloose» remake doesn't differ much from the original musical - drama, in terms of the characters and plot - line, Brewer was able to successfully modernize the tale while staying true to its important message.

«Jump Back: Re-Imagining Footloose» discusses remaking Footloose for a new generation, and goes into detail about what's been changed and updated.

The world didn't need a remake of Footloose, the 1984 movie where outsider - rebel Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) takes on a town - wide ban against public dancing.

An energetic and curiously faithful remake of the 1984 film of the same name starring Kevin Bacon, writer - director Craig Brewer's Footloose is a virtual cinematic poison pill to anyone irrevocably divorced from any trace memories of adolescent feeling, and further proof that in life but especially art feeling is stronger than thought.

But Footloose version 2.0 can't be taken on its own merits: from the opening shot of the shuffling sneakers to its retro - licious soundtrack to the shot - for - shot recreations, this new film isn't just a remake, it's a homage.

The remake of Footloose should be a fine addition to this campy canon.

Echols thought the movie was bad, but I'll bet he will be tempted, for old time's sake, to see two other remakes of films he remembers from before his fall: Footloose and The Thing.

Actor Kenny Wormald arrives in Craig Brewer's thoroughly winning remake of Footloose with a lot to prove, just like his character, Ren MacCormack.

Roles in the remake of FOOTLOOSE and the party - gone - wrong crime comedy PROJECT X followed.

The long list of pointless remakes expands by one to include Footloose, a lively yet very faithful retelling of the 1984 box - office hit about kids» rights to dance.

The 2011 Footloose — starring dancer Kenny Wormald in the Bacon role and directed by Craig Brewer of Hustle & Flow fame — is an extraordinarily faithful remake, recycling four songs from the first Footloose, plus plot, characters, and iconography.

Footloose joins a new wave of 1980s remakes that are, on the whole, quite presumptuous — supposed «classics» reworked for a new generation that might not want anything to do with them.

«Footloose» is a remake of the 1984 musical about a city boy, played by the young Kevin Bacon, who comes to a small southern town and, literally, shakes things up.

Julianne Hough (c.) and Kenny Wormald are shown in a scene from the remake of the 1984 movie «Footloose,» as a small Southern town learns to let its teenagers have fun.

Paramount has sent over four clips from the remake of Footloose.

Some new images from Craig Brewer's (Hustle & Flow) upcoming remake of Footloose have appeared online.

Paramount has released a new trailer for the remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon movie Footloose.

We've already had new versions of Footloose, The Karate Kid and Red Dawn, and the craze for remaking iconic 1980s movies seems destined to continue.

«Footloose» is the remake of the 1984 film of the same name and stars Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, and Andie MacDowell and is directed by Craig Brewer.

«Jump Back: Re-Imagining Footloose» focuses on the original film with comments from the cast and crew and its remake process.

When: October 14th Why: I know what you're thinking: who in their right mind wants to see a remake of «Footloose» when they can just watch the 1984 original starring Kevin Bacon?

Years later, he was cast in the film remake of Footloose starring Kenny Wormald, in which he played the same character as in his high school musical.

With an all - star cast including Rebecca DeMornay (The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Wedding Crashers), Jamie King (Red Tails, My Bloody Valentine, Sin City), Brianna Evigan (S. Darko, Step Up 2: The Streets), Patrick John Flueger (Footloose, Brothers), Deborah Ann Woll (HBO's «True Blood»), Lyriq Bent (Saw II - IV, Skinwalkers), Frank Grillo (The Grey, Minority Report) and Shawn Ashmore (the X-Men films, Frozen), Mother's Day is the chilling and gorier remake of the 1980 Troma classic by the same name.

The name Footloose is so synonymous with Kevin Bacon's 1984 original that a remake would always be tough.

I propose a remake of Footloose.

Also in multiplexes: Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson square off as rival birdwatchers in the star - studded comedy The Big Year, while Craig Brewer gives the Hustle & Flow / Black Snake Moan treatment to Footloose, a sexed - up remake of the 1984 «classic» that features all the steamy sensuality and dirty dancing a PG - 13 rating will allow.