Shooting a movie musical is more than enough work.
26.04.2022 - 20:04 / deadline.com
Here’s something that hasn’t been done with a musical before: Universal will release its feature take on the smash Broadway musical Wicked in two parts on December 25, 2024 and December 25, 2025. It’s a bold swing for a musical, which of late have been risky onscreen. However, this one is based on a legacy crowd-pleaser.
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Knock on wood, but working to Wicked’s advantage is that it’s a near $3 billion-grossing Broadway musical seen by more than 30 million people worldwide.
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Shooting a movie musical is more than enough work.
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Wicked movie musical. Only those of us who have lived through the content famine since the dark day in 2004, when Universal made plans , know that good cannot conquer evil. Evil rules everything around us. I am not being dramatic. This is the normal level of concern for someone who has been in an 18-year holding pattern waiting to watch a green woman belt a sustained F-note while flying on a broomstick.
movie news that’s going to make the world dance in their seats! The director of the film, which stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, revealed that the film will now be broken into two movies, with the first one coming to theaters in December 2024 and the second one in December 2025. “Thank you for all the support these past several months in anticipation of the movie,” he wrote in a note posted on his social media.