Whoever thought two guys named Big Boi and Andre 3000 would be the ones who tried to reinvent the movie musical?
Joining us now from New York to talk about the state of the movie musical is our own big boy, our entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell.
And what's missing from, I think, almost all these movies is that wonderful moment in the movie musical where everything was heightened just before they burst into song.
Following in the footsteps of the movie, the musical has gone on to become a long-running hit, amassing awards and spawning several productions across the world.
The long-distance Javerts in the tough-on-immigration movement need to take a good long look at Les Miserables, whether the book, the movie or the musical, and see the bit of Javert in each of us.
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The musical of razzmatazz and "All That Jazz" became the first movie musical to win best picture since 1968's "Oliver!"
They wrote screenplays for several MGM musicals, from "Good News" to "The Bandwagon" to "Singing in the Rain, " which the American Film Institute named the greatest movie musical of all time.
The movie takes the musical baton from Moulin Rouge and runs with it.
She confirmed that her husband is an avid fan of the movie on which the musical is based.
The Broadway adaptation still contains the movie's centrepiece musical number Springtime For Hitler, a wonderful piece of cinematic kitsch, which has been artfully recreated for the stage.
Both "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" will compete for the best musical prize with the acrobatic "Bring It On: The Musical" and "A Christmas Story, The Musical, " adapted from the beloved holiday movie.
Between traumas, the movie serves up soothingly banal musical numbers (composed by Elton John and Tim Rice) and silly, rambunctious comedy.
' And we were coming up with the musical sound for the movie while he was still writing the script.
There was a time that was a difference between the musical and a conventional movie, be it a comedy or a drama, whatever, is that those movies didn't have that many songs in them.
This outdoor cinema, located by the iconic Victoria Harbour in the Central district, will screen a short film each night followed by a full length local classic movie, such as the 1967 musical romance Hong Kong Nocturne (7 December).
Tom Hooper's adaptation of the popular stage hit enjoyed the biggest ever UK opening for a movie musical, beating a record set by Mamma Mia!
"The Hangover, " a comedy about misadventures in Las Vegas, won the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical movie.
"He still managed to be phenomenal and make a groundbreaking, historic movie musical by rethinking it and changing musical movies forever, " said Grey, who reprised the role he played onstage.
It's now easy to add still photos to a digital movie, as well as a musical soundtrack from the iTunes playlist, then to burn it to a DVD, complete with chapters, and a fancy introduction screen using iDVD.
While musical reproduction sounded adequate, during dynamic movie sequences the system lacked punch.
She has also captured the interest of people beyond Argentina's borders, many of whom know her story from the 1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Evita" and its 1996 movie adaptation, which starred Madonna and Antonio Banderas.
Based on Brooks' 1968 movie of the same name, The Producers - about the worst musical ever written - had required Dreyfuss to sing and dance with co-star Lee Evans and at one point do both with a chorus line.
Next up: a starring role opposite the chart-topping Jonas Brothers in Camp Rock, a High School Musical-esque Disney Channel movie premiering in June.
The movie has a seductive, percolating, what's-old-is-new-again musical score by the French electronica duo Daft Punk, and for lengthy swatches of it I grooved on the look and the atmosphere.
There's something about the journey of John Waters' Hairspray to its current incarnation as a candy-colored, big-budget movie musical that I can't quite believe.
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