Despite the modest domestic success of “Burlesque,” the film is racing towards $100 million in box office receipts worldwide, which Antin takes as a sign that people are still interested in musicals. “It’s hard to get any movie made today,” he observed. “I don’t generally musicals or get involved with them if they don’t have a real commercial viability, because a musical should be commercial, I think; they should appeal to mass culture. [But] people are still interested in hearing about musicals – everybody is. Every studio wants to hear about them, from the right people, I think, and about the right kind of musicals. I’m sort of the right guy to now to pitch musicals and I have been for a while because my reel reflected that, my music video reel that I had done. I obviously have a pretty good filmography with musicals I can walk the walk, and talk the talk. And I have been involved with music and choreography almost my whole life.” “But people say that to me too, about not too many musicals being made as well, not compared to the Golden Age of Hollywood, in the 30s and 40s,” he reflected. “In the last 10, 15 years Hollywood made musicals; there was “Mamma Mia,” “Chicago,” “Nine,” and “Burlesque.”
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