Variety reports that Glass House director Steven Antin has been tapped to helm Burlesque -- a modern musical that will include 12 song-and-dance numbers, like a modern Moulin Rouge!. Oh, and for a bit of trivia: he's the preppy, jerky jock Troy from The Goonies. Antin wrote the script, and then Diablo Cody was brought on to revise it. (I imagine this won't be the last time she's brought on to spruce up a script that includes stripping or burlesque.) The film will follow "a young woman who tries to escape a hollow past and finds it performing in a neo-burlesque club in Los Angeles."
If it seems like surprising material for Antin, who wrote Chasing Papi and Sidney Lumet's Gloria, Variety says he has been writing and directing live burlesque shows for the last ten years. He says: "Neo-burlesque is a contemporary take on the traditional burlesque that derived from vaudeville, with singing, dancing, comedy, and more tease than striptease." Clint Culpepper, Screen Gems president, says he convinced Antin to write a spec script after seeing his first show and continued: "This will be a sexy, music-filled film set in a provocative and artistic world."
Also, the cinematographer for the movie was announced. Its Bojan Bazelli who also did The Ring, Hairspray and Mr and Mrs. Smith.
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"I finally believed in a movie enough and a script enough, and a director enough to sign on and do my first feature film," Aguilera told The AP.
She added: "Cher will be starring with me, so it's very exciting for me to step into that project and I'll be taking it very seriously, so that's actually what I am diving into filming over the next few months."
Couldn't they get a better writer? At least Cody will check the script up-
Steve Antin isnt the only writer, Susannah Grant also worked on the script, she did Erin Brokovich, Ever After, In Her Shoes, 28 Days, and most recent The Soloist.
Im optimistic
"Poltergeist", a remake to '80s horror movie, is yet to cast its stars, but it has secured a release date. According to Shock Till You Drop, the remake film will be coming out in theaters during Thanksgiving weekend of 2010 as MGM picked November 24, 2010 as the day the studio will release the new horror film.
The locked date placed "Poltergeist" in competition with Screen Gems' drama musical starring Christina Aguilera, "Burlesque". Though when MGM plans to debut the film in U.S. theaters has been unraveled, no other detail on the possible cast ensemble and on when and where the filmmakers are planning to shoot the remake project is disclosed.
i havent seen that since i was..............? 4 or ....?
imma have to see if they have on youtube to see it again i remember liltte parts
that use to creep me out a little
*i love horror*
i wanna see.the remake hopefully one suck.....ppl complain too much
The Devil Wears Prada's Stanley Tucci Joins Burlesque
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Screen Gems has set Stanley Tucci to star alongside Cher and Christina Aguilera in "Burlesque," the musical to be directed by Steve Antin.
Antin wrote the script, which was revised by Susannah Grant.
Donald De Line is producing through his De Line Pictures banner. Production begins Nov. 9, and the pic is set for a Thanksgiving release next year.
Aguilera plays an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds success in a neo-burlesque club reminiscent of the nightclub in Bob Fosse's "Cabaret." Tucci will play the manager of the Sunset Boulevard club and the best friend and confidante of Tess (Cher), a former dancer who takes the young girl under her wing. Pic marks Cher's first movie starring role in a decade.
Tucci is coming off "Julie and Julia" and "The Devil Wears Prada." He most recently starred for Screen Gems in the comedy "Easy A" and also stars in the Peter Jackson-directed "The Lovely Bones."
Couldn't they get a better writer? At least Cody will check the script up-
I expected it to come out late 2010.
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