Tag: The Greatest Showman
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‘Get Out,’ ‘Stranger Things’ Win Publicists Awards for Top Campaigns
Hollywood publicists have named Universal’s “Get Out” and Netflix’s second season of “Stranger Things” as the top publicity campaigns of 2017.“Get Out” won the Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Award over Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” TriStar Pictures’ “Baby Driver,” Paramount’s “Daddy’s Home 2,” Fox’s “The Greatest Showman,” and Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman.”The awards…
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Japan Box Office: ‘Greatest Showman’ Beats ‘Demon Cat’
Fox’s “The Greatest Showman” held onto the top spot at the Japanese box office for a second weekend. The Michael Gracey musical earned $3.4 million on 244,000 admissions for the Feb. 24-25 frame. This was only a slight dip from its opening weekend, despite competition for audience attention from the Winter Olympics and the Tokyo…
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‘Call Me by Your Name’: Sufjan Stevens to Perform ‘Mystery of Love’ at the Oscars
Now that he’s been nominated for an Academy Award, Sufjan Stevens is about to take the next logical step: performing at the actual ceremony. The singer/songwriter received a nod in the Best Original Song category for “Mystery of Love,” one of two tunes he contributed to the “Call Me by Your Name” soundtrack; his other,…
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‘This Is Me’ Catapults ‘Greatest Showman’ Soundtrack Toward One Billion Streams
“This Is Me,” the showstopping number from original musical “The Greatest Showman,” is up for best original song at the upcoming Academy Awards and is propelling streams of the movie’s soundtrack as the March 4 broadcast inches closer.Atlantic Records, which released “The Greatest Showman” album, a companion of music from the film, announced that the…
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‘The Greatest Showman’: How ‘This Is Me’ Morphed from a Low-Key Ukulele Song into an Oscar-Nominated Anthem
If Benj Pasek and Justin Paul had been better at pirouettes, there’s a good chance that they would not be the reigning Best Original Song Oscar winners (“City of Stars,” “La La Land”), now vying for their second statues (“This Is Me,” “The Greatest Showman”).The composers — who have only scripted songs for two completed…
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Behind the Scene: How Pasek and Paul’s ‘Greatest Showman’ Anthem ‘This Is Me’ Became a Smash Hit
It’s been a good year for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting and composing duo better known as Pasek and Paul. After landing an Academy Award for their song, “City of Dreams” from “La La Land,” co-written by composer Justin Hurwitz, the duo saw their Broadway smash “Dear Evan Hansen” take home six Tony…
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Japan Box Office: ‘Greatest Showman’ Pitches up as Weekend Winner
“The Greatest Showman,” the Michael Gracey musical based on the life of P.T. Barnum, bowed atop the Japanese box office for the Feb. 17-18 weekend. It was also the only new entry to the top ten. With Fox distributing, the film scored $4.8 million on 355,000 admissions in its first three days of release. It…
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Mpse Awards 2018: ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Take Top Sound Editing Awards
It was a clear victory for sci-fi sound editing Sunday night at the 65th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards at the Westin Bonaventure. “War for the Planet of the Apes” was the surprise winner for Dialogue/Adr, splitting honors with “Blade Runner 2049,” which grabbed the Effects/Foley prize. The big loser was “Dunkirk” (which won the…
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‘Black Panther’ Delivers Fifth Largest Opening of All-Time, Heading Toward $218M+ 4-Day Debut
Dominating the weekend and delivering one of the largest opening weekends of all-time, Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther topped the President’s Day weekend box office, outperforming its nearest competitor by nearly $175 million based on estimates. As a result, fellow new wide releases were left in the dust with both Lionsgate’s Early Man and PureFlix’s…
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Jake Gyllenhaal & Ansel Elgort To Star In ‘Finest Kind’ From ‘L.A. Confidential’ Writer Brian Helgeland
Brian Helgeland knows his way around crime stories, winning an Oscar for “L.A. Confidential,” getting nominated for “Mystic River,” and writing fare like “Man On Fire” and “Payback” (which he also directed). Now’s got another project cooking that’s attracting some big names.Jake Gyllenhaal, Ansel Elgort (“Baby Driver“) and Zendaya (“The Amazing Spider-Man,” “The Greatest Showman“)…