Posts Tagged ‘Musical’
Mamma Shows Titanic Who’s Daddy
Despite not performing together since 1982, ABBA has never really waned in popularity. Somehow they’re still able to sell millions of albums a year. Since a reunion is out of the question, the best way to get your ABBA on has been to see Mamma Mia!, either the musical or, as of June 30th, the movie. Apparently in the United Kingdom, people have chosen to see the movie. Over. And over. And over again.
Mamma Mia! has passed Titanic as the highest-grossing movie to be released in the U.K. It has eclipsed Titanic’s 69 million pound mark (for now) by 100,000 pounds. The total equates to about $106 million.
It’s probably due to the perfect storm of ABBA’s popularity and a pretty decent movie (it snagged two Golden Globe nominations). I’m not entirely sure
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Tags: ABBA, Musical, popularity, soundtrack, United Kingdom
Assessing The Weekend: How Long Until High School Musical 4?
The weekend proved to be a two horse race. Outside of High School Musical 3 and Saw V, the only movie that cracked $2,500 per screen was The Secret Life of Bees.
Tags: box office, formula, installment, Musical, numbers, performance, production, series, success, weekend
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Read This
Just like Hairspray before it, American Psycho will be made into a Broadway musical and in a couple years that musical will be adapted into a movie.
Tags: isolation, loneliness, minutiae, Musical, novel, violence
This Is Going To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
So, I know I’ve been on a anti-remake jag lately, I’ll try to make this the last I talk about it for a while. I just couldn’t help it, once I saw that MTV is remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Tags: Horror, Musical, Must See, Opinion, SciFi
Lost Genre: Non-Musical
So, one of the things that really gets under my skin is the misclassification of Non-Musicals. There is so much music in the movie that it confuses people.
Tags: Feature, Musical, Must See, Non-Musical, Opinion
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