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...orchestra assaults the eardrums. Amid the chaos, Schumacher appears relaxed, even louche, as he watches the action through his monitor. He's having a good time. And he's just one of many directors out to revive the movie musical - a trend that began when Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge squeaked out a small profit in 2001, and gathered steam a year later when Rob Marshall's Chicago grossed over $170 million in the U.S. and bagged six Oscars. "Movie musicals went out of fashion for a long time," says Schumacher, "but finally it looks like they're coming back...
...half of the people who've seen the show see the film," says executive producer Austin Shaw, "it will gross $350 million. And what about the 2.9 billion people who haven't seen it?" Such confidence might explain the decision not to cast big names in the lead roles. Moulin Rouge had Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman; Chicago had Renee Zellwegger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere; Phantom has 18-year-old Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow) and Scott Gerard Butler, 35, best known for 2003's Tomb Raider sequel. The only name is Minnie Driver, who is less...
...Paris. Up to 400,000 Chinese travel to France each year under business- or family-visit visas, but the number is expected to rise by 30% next year under the new rules. The first group planned to see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Printemps department store, the Moulin Rouge cabaret, the Palace of Versailles and cruise the Seine in a whirlwind two-day Paris stop before heading to Switzerland by train...
...Crimson—wearing Marilyn Monroe-pink, form-fitting leotards—performed a diamond-themed routine, dancing to songs like Vanilla Ice’s “Ice, Ice Baby,” Moulin Rouge’s “Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend,” and the DeBeer’s theme song...
Greene may also be the only person on earth who can discuss supersymmetry and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack in the same conversation. In his occasional visits outside the realm of physics, he revels in music and theatre. If he weren’t a physicist, he says his dream would be to perform music, though he’s not convinced he’s very good at it. Such a predisposition towards the performing arts may have taken root because of the influence of Greene’s composer father. While at Oxford, Greene participated in improvisational theater...