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Is there a place in your alternative media grant for an animated / live action musical feature screenplay?

Disney has released the one sheet for Beauty and the Beast, Bill Condon's live action musical slated for March, 2017, and starring Emma Watson, Kevin Kline and Josh Gad.

Next year, however, Disney will be releasing two live - action musicals: Muppets Most Wanted and one that's likely to be their most elaborate and star - studded live action musical to date, Into The Woods.

Nearly every genre had been covered, except for the live action musical.

Not exact matches

Emma Watson makes her musical debut in the new live - action Beauty and the Beast and it looks incredible.

There's no Cookie Monster or Big Bird, but Grand Palladium does have a relationship with a blue dog named RAGGS, who stars in an an Emmy Award - winning, live action and animated musical preschool television series originally produced in Sydney, Australia.

In 1931 bandleader / crooner Rudy Vallée starred in Musical Justice, a short film in which a live - action Betty Boop (played by

Unable to connect with older or younger viewers, Newsies gained a reputation as a major bomb that cut short an attempt to bring back the live - action musical, though in the intervening years it has gained a small but appreciative cult.

He then came to acquire those in 1957 and announced on air that he would make a live - action musical called The Rainbow Road to Oz.

There is arguably more to like than dislike about Bill Condon's live - action version of Disney's 1991 animated musical Beauty and the Beast, but there really isn't much to love about it.

Their animated and live - action features have included musicals, fantasies, adventures, science fiction, mystery, and even horror.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

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Since then, Disney turned it into an epic stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turning it into a live action spectacle hoping to make audiences fall in love again with a tale as old as time.

Condon has a long history with musicals - he wrote and directed Dreamgirls, directed the upcoming Disney live - action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and wrote the screenplays for Chicago and upcoming musical The Greatest Showman, which stars Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman.

101 Dalmatians isn't exactly known for its strong musical roster, which makes it surprising that Disney issued a volume of its 1990s Sing Along Songs VHS series titled after its two protagonists Pongo and Perdita to coincide with the theatrical release of the studio's 1996 live action remake.

Sony's live - action Barbie film has been moved up from June 2, 2017, to May 12, 2017, while Lionsgate has shifted La La Land, the upcoming Emma Stone / Ryan Gosling musical directed by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) from July 15, 2016, to December 2, 2016, likely positioning it for awards consideration.

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When most people think of Walt Disney films, they think of two genres: the animated musical and the live - action family film.

ScreenRant writes that Luke Evans (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Dracula Untold) will star as the superlative MRA; considering Evans got his start performing in musicals in London's West End, his casting seems like another hint that the live - action movie might incorporate some of the classic songs from its animated predecessor.

It has spawned an animated series, a video game, two Japanese live action films, a three - part mini series, a TV drama and a musical.

It comes as little surprise that Disney is pulling out all the stops for its upcoming live - action remake of classic musical Beauty and the Beast; it's a tale as old as time.

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What's slightly more rare of late is a blend of the two, the live - action musical, as we've seen in films like Mary Poppins, Newsies, Enchanted or The Muppets.

Disney is continuing to dig around in their vault for new movies inspired by their old movies with Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the 1964 live - action musical classic Mary Poppins that will have Emily Blunt stepping up to play the titular nanny instead of Julie Andrews.

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Beauty is absolutely unthinkable without Menken's marvelous melodies and Ashman's witty words, and the seamless synergy of score and story rivals that of any classic stage or live - action movie musical.

Disney's latest live - action adaptation Beauty and the Beast is magical and musical, just like the original.

It barely needed a fifth day to dethrone Grease as the top - grossing live - action musical ever, a position it had held for nearly forty years.

The live - action musical adventure created for a new generation honors the same underlying message of female empowerment, honesty and integrity that inspired the animated series.

The live - action version will supposedly retain the original's musical elements.

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But Elvis Costello could be an attractive nominee, alongside the newest anthem from five - time nominee Diane Warren («Stand Up for Something,» with Common) and three songs from the musical - theater world: «Remember Me» from «Frozen» songwriters Bobby and Kristin Anderson Lopez, «This Is Me» from last year's «La La Land» winners, Broadway faves Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and «Evermore,» one of the new songs that Alan Menken wrote for the live - action «Beauty and the Beast.»

The chaotic, pushy remake of Disney's 1991 screen musical «Beauty and the Beast» stresses the challenges of adapting a success in one form (animation) for another (live - action).

Honored with the French Legion of Honor in 2001, the 2000 Acapulco Black Film Festival's Best International Film Award for Le Conte du ventre plein (aka Bellyful, 2000), the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1987 Children's Live - Action Humanitas Prize for The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, a 1972 Tony Award nomination for «Don't Play Us Cheap», two 1971 Tony Award nominations for «Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death», along with a Grammy Award nomination and Drama Desk Award for this earlier musical, Melvin Van Peebles is more than a one - note film director.

King Arthur helmer Guy Ritchie confirms that Disney's live - action remake of the animated classic Aladdin will indeed be a musical.

According to The Wrap, Emma Thompson and Kevin Kline are the latest illustrious thespians who have been added to the ever - growing cast list for Disney's live - action musical remake of Beauty And The Beast, which so far includes Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, and Josh Gad as LeFou.

Oscar - nominated director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist) makes his live - action debut in this effervescent, musical, candy - coloured charmer about a mute piano prodigy unlocking his repressed childhood memories.

The Jungle Book, Disney's latest cartoon - to - live - action adaptation, gets a lot of things right: It's wildly entertaining, full of great vocal performances by a stacked A-list cast, and boasts a hilarious / creepy musical number by none other than Christopher Walken.

And three cheers for director Bill Condon and star Emma Watson for having the courage to make a live - action musical adaptation of the adored 1991 animation with 2017 gender politics and a diverse cast.

Fey and Carlock pushed their irreverent and reflexive comedy to the max, creating episodes that played by like super-brainy live - action Mad strips, musical with speed banter and crammed with sight gags.

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The musical is alive and well, and living in Hong Kong One of the few wholly satisfying films at this year's festival was Office, a satirical musical - melodrama mashup from Hong Kong action master Johnnie To.

Beauty and the Beast by George Wolf Word is, the early plan for Disney's live - action remake of their 1991 classic Beauty and the Beast did not involve a musical production.

The group also has successfully built upon some of Universal's highly celebrated live - action franchises, most recently launching the Tony Award ® - nominated hit touring stage production Bring It On: The Musical; the adrenaline - fueled actioner Death Race 3: Inferno; and the epic - adventure sagaThe Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption.

Word is, the early plan for Disney's live - action remake of their 1991 classic Beauty and the Beast did not involve a musical production.

It's a warmly melodic, family - friendly spirit that's much like Debney's affable personality, growing from the small screen to apply his lavishly fun orchestral sound to such live - action and animated fantasy epics as «Inspector Gadget,» «The Ant Bully,» «The Scorpion King,» «Evan Almighty,» «Zathura» and «Lair» — a lavish orchestral score that arguably put videogame soundtracks on the map as a musical contender.

I consider Mulan the least of the studio's musical cartoons that productive decade, yet would still easily recommend it over most of its live - action contemporaries and many family films from other eras.

With songs like «Arabian Nights,» «Friend Like Me,» «Prince Ali,» and «A Whole New World,» it would have been very surprising if the upcoming live - action Aladdin film wasn't a musical.

Taiwanese pop sensation Jay Chou, drawing on his years as an actor, director, and recording star, creates a fantasy playground of music, moves, and magic as a backdrop to an action comedy which pays homage to the wondrous musicals of the past, while exploding to life with today's sound and spirit.