Sentences with phrase «original film musicals»

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

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.

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The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

The slow, strange rhythm is very unsettling and takes some getting used to, but it's an altogether amazing, sunsuous film; it even has an element of science fiction and some creepy musical numbers, and the soundtrack is as original and peculiar as the imagery.

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

The film is rumored to be keeping the original musical songs with some addition by Alan Menken.

Unlike other recent Disney adaptation, Beauty and The Beast is rumored to keep the original film's musical numbers as well as add some new songs.

The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,» said Rob Marshall in a statement.

Chenoweth, on the other hand, is much more naked in her ego - driven ambitions than Carole Lombard in the film or even Madeline Kahn in the original Broadway production of this musical, in which Kevin Kline gave the first of his many Errol Flynn impersonations (and Kahn got fired for missing too many performances).

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The original was a musical with no less than 12 musical numbers throughout the film.

The harsh, violin - heavy original score is rigid and haunting, accompanied late in the film by a heavy dose of the symbolic title song from the musical «Camelot», which became forever connected with the Kennedy family.

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

Meanwhile, the 1980s musical version of Little Shop of Horrors gets all the attention, and deservedly so, but how many people have seen the 1960 original film, directed by Roger Corman?

The results have been encouraging, with Disney both embracing its tradition of fairy tale musicals and also succeeding with creative original storytelling on less conventional films like Wreck - It Ralph and Big Hero 6.

With access to James Brown's original multitrack recordings, the Get on Up team was able to remix those tracks to create state - of - the - art surround sound for the film's audience — and tailor any given musical performance to the film's dramatic needs.

In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances, Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock - and - roll stardom.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

Now with a scene - stealing breakthrough on the big screen as the Bearded Lady in 20th Century Fox's «The Greatest Showman,» the original movie musical premiering Dec. 20 and starring Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum, Settle is about to win over film audiences as well.

That Thing You Do is another film that creates a bygone musical era and parodies its sound with an original score.

Hugely successful upon their original release, thanks in part to the skilled direction of Duccio Tessari («The Bloodstained Butterfly,» «Death Occurred Last Night»), the Ringo films proved influential on the Italian Western, spawning numerous unofficial sequels, due to their gripping set - pieces and unforgettable musical scoring by Ennio Morricone.

The new film, which opens Friday nationwide, is cut from cinematic cloth gathered more from «E.T. the Extraterrestrial» than the original musical.

The Greatest Showman (2017) Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, the film is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation: the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Rob Marshall, the talented filmmaker behind the Academy Award ® - winning musical «Chicago» and Disney's «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,» helms the film, which is based on the Tony ® - winning original musical by James Lapine, who also penned the screenplay, and legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, who provides the music and lyrics — including an all - new song for the big - screen adaptation.

The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,» says Marshall in the news release.

Director Adam Shankman's film (a remake of the ’88 original and based on the ’02 Tony - Winning Broadway musical) shows that people of any age, size, race or gender matter — when it comes to pursuing your dreams, falling in love, and making a difference in society.

Produced by Eddie Alcazar, and featuring Hannibal Buress (Broad City), Anders Holm (The Mindy Project), Tim Heidecker (Eastbound and Down), and iconic Funk musician George Clinton, the film also includes an original score and musical collaborations with Aphex Twin and Akira Yamaoka.

The film's original screenwriter and director, PJ Hogan, will write the musical's book, giving the story a contemporary update for its stage debut.

But while more subversive elements of John Waters» original film were buried, Shankman unearthed the Zeroes» bounciest, bubbliest movie musical.

Ever since the French filmmaker Leos Carax announced Annette as his next film, the project has seemed just too strange to survive the often perilous road to financing and production: an English - language musical from the director of The Lovers On The Bridge and Holy Motors, with original songs by the cult art - pop duo...

But this film seemed more focused on duplicating the original (come on guys - the jungle, booby traps, musical score, the Yakuza's last stand with the sword, the big ass gun, Adrien Brody covering his body in mud and screaming «kill me!

She always knew she wanted to tell the story with original songs, so the musical direction was key in making the film work.

A sizable contingent of silent - film fans has always insisted on musical accompaniment that feels contemporaneous with the original release, and if you're one of those people, you need never click over to the KTL score.

In dramatizing Mathison's script, Spielberg and his usual army of key collaborators — led by Janusz Kaminski (director of photography), Rick Carter (production design), Michael Kahn (film editing), and John Williams (original musical score)-- have fashioned a movie for children that looks at home in modern cinemas while retaining an «old - fashioned» pacing and temperament.

His irreverent combinations of musical styles soon earned him a reputation as a wholly original composer and he became the favorite of iconoclastic film - makers.

Other winners in the film categories were Lady Bird for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical); Guillermo del Toro for Best Director for The Shape of Water; Gary Oldman for Best Actor (Drama) for Darkest Hour; Saoirse Ronan for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for Lady Bird; James Franco for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for The Disaster Artist; Allison Janney for Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya; In the Fade for Best Foreign Feature; Coco for Best Animated Feature; Alexandre Desplat for Best Original Score for The Shape of Water; and «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman for Best Original Song.

That film is «La La Land,» an original movie musical by Damien Chazelle, whose last film was the Oscar - winning «Whiplash.»

Filmed and broadcast live from New York, this wondrous adaptation of the original Broadway musical tells the beloved story of Peter Pan (Allison Williams, HBO's Girls), a mischievous boy who ran away to have adventures in Neverland and never grow up!

These featurette videos include a look at the original planning and production, filming, and the process of actually creating and delivering a big screen musical.

Olivia Newton - John and John Travolta capture the 1950s era well, and the film's soundtrack is one of the most enjoyable movie soundtracks of any year or genre, including the title track, «Summer Nights,» «You're the One that I Want» (which wasn't in the original stage musical), and «Greased Lightnin».»

The songs from the original film (by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman), too, remain as nimble and catchy as they were before, even with some new verses and plenty of vamping to accommodate the longer musical sequences.

It's a faithful remake of the original film, in that it maintains the same plot beats, the same songs, and even the same editorial pacing in the musical numbers, as well as some of the same shot setups.

Hopefully he does get to do the score, his musical work on the original Halloween film as well as Halloween III: Season of the Witch is simply amazing.

Original music for «Muriel's Wedding the Musical» is being written by award - winning singer - songwriters Kate Miller - Heidke and Keir Nuttall, as their songs will be joined by the ABBA tunes so famously featured in popular Australian film (which were originally written for ABBA by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson).

· The 1972 original, which has never before been the subject of a feature film, was adapted to the small screen in 1990 as an HBO animated musical with music by composer Charles Strouse..

The original film was a quirky musical directed by Roger Corman that featured a florist who discovers success with a human - eating plant.

The film is an original musical written by Bill Condon («Dreamgirls») and Jenny Bicks («Sex and the City») with lyrics from Oscar winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul («La La Land»).

Taylor's original choice of composer was Carter Burwell who didn't seem the most natural of choices, so it wasn't entirely a surprise when he departed the project (seemingly not the director's choice, but the studio's); a very capable replacement was hired in the form of Brian Tyler, who also scored the previous film in the franchise, Iron Man 3, and just maybe he will become the «house composer» for this series, which has so far failed to establish any kind of distinctive musical identity.

In that film, more the original rather than the musical remake, we were delighted by the inspired but appalling behavior of producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, his hapless accountant turned... Read More»

Described as a musical about a stand - up comedian, the film stars Adam Driver and features original songs by brothers Ron and Russell Mael, also known as the cult art - pop duo Sparks.