Sentences with phrase «film musicals»

A song from a stage musical or film musical written for the show but unused or dropped from the production.

And the deletion from the final cut of the new song, «She'll Be Back», written expressly by Stephen Sondheim for Meryl Streep, means that Into the Woods - which has done better at the box office than many film musicals of late (Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys, anyone?)

Logan himself, Hugh Jackman introduces footage from his upcoming movie musical The Greatest Showman, his first film musical since Les Misérables.

Jackman has clearly been dying to make an original film musical for years (his yearning spills over to the semi-musical Pan and the carnie - barker stylings of Real Steel), and seems excited to return to the genre after Les Misérables.

«La La Land» star on what it was like filming a musical, her anxiety attacks and keeping up with Joaquin Phoenix

This one is directed by Rob Marshall, the helmsman on the Oscar - winning film musical Chicago; here, he is once again bringing an acclaimed Broadway stage musical to cinematic life.

Rob Marshall's latest film musical «Nine» offers a slew of potential acting nominations with past Oscar winners Daniel Day - Lewis, Marion Cottilard, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, and Sophia Loren.

I've said it before, but for those who haven't read my reviews previously, I'll preface this one by stating I generally dislike film musicals.

As filmed musicals go, it's no Singin» in the Rain, but then, you wouldn't expect an elephant to do a dainty pirouette.

Mamoulian had also made the classic 1932 film musical Love Me Tonight, but he didn't get along with Goldwyn and was replaced by Otto Preminger.

Christopher Wheeldon's adaptation of the classic 1951 Oscar - winning Hollywood film musical earned mentions for Best Musical, Direction, Choreography, and Best Lead Actor in a Musical.

Reuniting the director and producing team behind Disney's hit film musical Into the Woods, the film will be directed by Oscar nominee, Emmy and Directors Guild of America Award winner Rob Marshall and produced by Marshall, Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee John DeLuca and Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marc Platt.

They're now working on the high - profile film musical The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman.

By the time of Camelot's release, the once - surefire Broadway - to - film musical conduit had frayed to the point of snapping, as the hip youth market soaked up new flavours from Europe and older audiences turned away from cinema altogether.

In the next few weeks she'll get her Sondheim on as Cinderella in Into the Woods and then of course there is the upcoming Pitch Perfect 2 (are we considering the Pitch Perfect films musicals?

THE KING AND I This animated adaptation of the vintage Broadway and film musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II is not quite a soaring effort.

Into the Woods: Rob Marshall proves again that he's the man you want filming a musical, using inventive techniques to bring the cross-cutting fairy tale narratives in this Sondheim musical to glorious life.

The main problem is director Tom Hooper, who films each musical number, almost without exception, in close - up.

A lot of modern, original film musicals are as much about the feeling of their forbearers as anything else.

Part of the success of the performances in the film owes greatly to Hooper's decision to record the actors singing on set, rather than have them lip - sync to pre-recorded tracks, the usual method for filming musicals.

Since the first photos from The Greatest Showman landed back in May, movie fans have been itching to know more about the film musical.

What a film musical could illustrate is why he was driven to do it.

Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a film musical lip - synch their songs to prerecorded tracks (a / k / a «playback»), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) insisted that all of the singing in his Les Mis happen live on the set, in the moment, with hidden earpieces allowing the actors to hear the orchestrations.

His commitment to using character actors, and not celebrities, to drive his films and using music in a compelling new way — one could easily consider this film a musical even if it defies all expectations of what you will think.

Lily James (pictured) has been cast in the film musical All You Need Is Love, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle

The actress, who appeared alongside Gary Oldman in his Oscar - winning turn as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, has been cast in the film musical All You Need Is Love, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle.

I'm not a big fan of musicals, and when I have liked a film musical, it has usually been of the more cinematic variety.

Ultimately, though, this is an imaginatively directed musical melodrama that splits the difference between the old, pre-1960s style of filmed musical and the more jagged, post-rock -»n' - roll style.

Albeit more financially successful than many of the late - 60's film musicals that helped speed up the genre's demise, this lumbering picture features some catchy (though not top - drawer) Lerner & Loewe compositions and lavish production values but remains dramatically inert throughout its three - hour running time.

Billy Magnussen - Photographs from the red carpet as a vast array of stars arrived for the World Premiere of Disney's film musical «Into The Woods» which was held at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, New York, United States - Tuesday 9th December 2014

Billy Magnussen - «Photographs from the red carpet as a vast array of stars arrived for the World Premiere of Disney's film musical «Into The Woods» which was held at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, New York, United States - Monday 8th December 2014

The Oscar - winning actress casts a spell as a creepy witch in the film musical that is based on multiple fairy tales

According to Altman, adaptations lacked the freedom «to exploit the versatility of the film medium» compared to original film musicals.

The film's lush 35 mm photography is abruptly replaced by the sharp digital look of an iPhone camera, and for the first time in the film a musical score kicks in.

The show had two central points of reference: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), based on the novel by Stephen King, and the Disney adaptation of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris, which opened in 1946 as Song of the South, a film musical containing both live - action and animated sequences.