Sentences with phrase «budget movie musical»
Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, and given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious - or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame - this big - budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.
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, the big - budget movie version of the jukebox hit London and Broadway (and Toronto) musical that all but defined the genre.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.
Chazelle's passion for the movie musical was evident in Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench his no - budget, 16 mm, black - and - white, Harvard - film - student ode to the French New Wave and its love for postwar song»n' dance flicks.
Here's what you need to now going in to «The Greatest Showman,» the big - budget musical starring Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams: It's not a movie version of «Barnum,» the Broadway musical.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 5, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Cadillac Records (R for sexuality and pervasive profanity) Historical drama chronicles the rise of the legendary record company founded in Chicago in the Fifties by Leonard (Adrien Brody) and Phil Chess (Shiloh Fernandez), siblings who roamed the South in search of promising talent, and discovered such future musical greats as Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Etta James (Beyonce»), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Howlin» Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and (Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer).
There are going to be a few comparisons to La La Land, being last year's musical movie, and, yes, a lot of the reason The Greatest Showman finally got the budget it needed was producers hoping the comparison will be made by viewers, but this is a different beast entirely.
Will Damien Chazelle's movie musical «La La Land» emerge as this year's big - budget frontrunner?