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I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Sony’s Whitney Houston biopic starring English actress Naomi Ackie that comes out Dec. 23, takes its title from “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” the lead single off Houston’s second album, 1987’s Whitney.
The track was written by then-married songwriting duo George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, aka Boy Meets Girl, who’d penned Houston’s first hit single, 1985’s “How Will I Know.” Some critics dismissed “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” as too similar in sound to “How Will I Know” — but fans knew an earworm when they heard one. The song took six weeks to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, stayed there two weeks, and remained in the top 10 for nine weeks — more than any other song that year.
The video for “Somebody” reunited Houston with director Brian Grant and choreographer Arlene Phillips,...
I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Sony’s Whitney Houston biopic starring English actress Naomi Ackie that comes out Dec. 23, takes its title from “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” the lead single off Houston’s second album, 1987’s Whitney.
The track was written by then-married songwriting duo George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, aka Boy Meets Girl, who’d penned Houston’s first hit single, 1985’s “How Will I Know.” Some critics dismissed “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” as too similar in sound to “How Will I Know” — but fans knew an earworm when they heard one. The song took six weeks to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, stayed there two weeks, and remained in the top 10 for nine weeks — more than any other song that year.
The video for “Somebody” reunited Houston with director Brian Grant and choreographer Arlene Phillips,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Rob Hunter
Boy meets girl and four eyes are opened in this beautiful look at sacrifice, self-worth, and the world around us.
The article ‘Columbus’ Review: One of the Year’s Best Films Is a Quiet Stunner Worthy of Discovery appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Boy meets girl and four eyes are opened in this beautiful look at sacrifice, self-worth, and the world around us.
The article ‘Columbus’ Review: One of the Year’s Best Films Is a Quiet Stunner Worthy of Discovery appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 8/25/2017
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Trace Lysette talks about her big breakout in the third season of Transparent and the responsibility to her trans sisters. Amazon’s Transparent has always been lauded for its lived-in,...
- 6/23/2017
- by Joey Moser
- AwardsDaily.com
A struggling Chicago stand-up comic and Uber driver named Kumail, played by the terrifically talented Kumail Nanjiani (Dinesh on Silicon Valley), is poleaxed by the news that his girlfriend Emily (Zoe Kazan) has fallen unexpectedly and inexplicably ill. While doctors look for answers, she lies in a medically induced coma. Hard to believe? Nope. Nanjiani and his wife/co-screenwriter Emily V. Gordon carved this romantic comedy out of her personal hospital experience and their own culture-clash relationship. Their hilarious and heartfelt script has a rare authenticity that pulls you in...
- 6/19/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Oh, but did I mention that boy lives on another planet? So is the premise that carries The Space Between Us, and it’s one that is packed with potential. Unfortunately, while this film might be shooting for the moon — or, in this case, Mars — it sadly doesn’t even land among the stars.
Asa Butterfield stars as Gardner Elliot, the classified boy who was born on Mars shortly after his astronaut mother arrives on the planet for a multi-year mission. Cutting to the chase: mom dies in childbirth, leaving Gardner to be raised by scientists in East Texas, the Mars space station he comes to call home for sixteen years. Gardner’s best friend is a robot, who is awfully — and I do mean awfully — reminiscent of a certain highly-opinionated droid from the famous Star Wars saga. He expends his...
Asa Butterfield stars as Gardner Elliot, the classified boy who was born on Mars shortly after his astronaut mother arrives on the planet for a multi-year mission. Cutting to the chase: mom dies in childbirth, leaving Gardner to be raised by scientists in East Texas, the Mars space station he comes to call home for sixteen years. Gardner’s best friend is a robot, who is awfully — and I do mean awfully — reminiscent of a certain highly-opinionated droid from the famous Star Wars saga. He expends his...
- 2/2/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
La La Land is a love letter to old movies. It's a love letter to jazz. It's a love letter to tap dancing. It's a love letter to the beauty and grace of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It's a love letter to the chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. But mostly, it's a love letter to Los Angeles. You know the tale by now: Boy is aspiring jazz musician and jazz club owner. Girl is aspiring actress. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl work on respective careers. Boy and girl fall in love, but then their careers get in the way. But behind the grand romance of this movie and all those beautifully choreographed dance scenes and the adorably quirky songs and the totally...
- 12/9/2016
- E! Online
Boy meets girl meets the up-ending aspirations of the city of stars – and they all break out of the conventions of everyday life as La La Land takes off on an exuberant song-and-dance journey through a life-changing love affair between a jazz pianist and a hopeful actress. At once an ode to the glamour and emotion of cinema classics, a love letter to the Los Angeles of unabated dreams, and a distinctly modern romance, the film reunites Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, bringing them together with rising writer/director Damien Chazelle (the Oscar®-winning Whiplash.)
La La Land opens in St. Louis on December 16.
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La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s debut film was a black-and-white romance told through song-and-dance,...
La La Land opens in St. Louis on December 16.
Wamg invites you to enter for the chance to win Two (2) seats to the advance screening of La La Land on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 7Pm in the St. Louis area.
Answer the following:
La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s debut film was a black-and-white romance told through song-and-dance,...
- 12/4/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's a classic story. Boy meets girl. Girl can't stand boy. Boy and girl end up having hate-sex. Ok, so maybe it's not a traditional relationship, but when has a pairing on Grey's Anatomy ever been so normal? But the story above is a very loose rundown of what went down between Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Riggs (Martin Henderson) last season, and has continued into this season, as the two have been secretly hooking up. Complicating matters? Maggie (Kelly McCreary), Mer's half-sister/roommate, asked Riggs out and even though he said no, she is still very into McKiwi. But in tonight's episode, something funny happened: Meredith started to actually like Riggs...we're just not sure...
- 10/7/2016
- E! Online
Hollywood romance is a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl plaster news of their love all over town until it falls apart in a big public meltdown. We've seen it happen a million times before. Yet somehow, whenever word comes of a new Hollywood pairing we remain as optimistic as ever. Call us hopeless romantics, but we just want relationships to work out. Today's couples crush du jour is a young Brooklyn Beckham and Chloe Grace Moretz, two starry-eyed youths with their whole lives stretched out before them. What could go wrong? Nothing, if you asked us. That's because we're betting our money on these two—if Hollywood relationships were a...
- 5/31/2016
- E! Online
I invite everyone to start off the day the way I do every morning. With a Happy Ending.
There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Ed had his electricity restored last night, and will resume his magical Meme powers tomorrow. The bad news is that our leader Dennis is still without, and our thoughts go to him and the hundreds of thousands who are still trying to cope.
Please join me at 1:00 Pm Et for a Days Of Our Lives Liveblog. For technical reasons, we're trying something a little different today. Hopefully it won't blow up in our faces, but if it does, that could be fun, too!
A programming note: Tomorrow is a holiday in the U.S., and Ae will be shut down with the exception of a Meme and a Liveblog. Join us back on Thursday for a full schedule! Oh,...
There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Ed had his electricity restored last night, and will resume his magical Meme powers tomorrow. The bad news is that our leader Dennis is still without, and our thoughts go to him and the hundreds of thousands who are still trying to cope.
Please join me at 1:00 Pm Et for a Days Of Our Lives Liveblog. For technical reasons, we're trying something a little different today. Hopefully it won't blow up in our faces, but if it does, that could be fun, too!
A programming note: Tomorrow is a holiday in the U.S., and Ae will be shut down with the exception of a Meme and a Liveblog. Join us back on Thursday for a full schedule! Oh,...
- 7/3/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Los Angeles -- Whitney Houston's career is getting a post-mortem boost, but it isn't likely to be as big as the one that enriched the King of Pop's estate after his death.
Like the late Michael Jackson, Houston was in the midst of an attempted career revival. She was found dead at age 48 on Saturday in her Los Angeles hotel room on the eve of the Grammys, a stage she once ruled.
It could be weeks before the coroner's office completes toxicology tests that could establish the cause of death.
In an outpouring of grief – and a desire to remember her soaring voice and upbeat personality – Houston's fans have propelled her decades-old recordings to the top of sales charts on iTunes and Amazon.com. Twitter recorded more than 2.5 million Tweets about her within two hours of her death.
Not unlike Jackson's posthumous star turn in the movie "This Is It,...
Like the late Michael Jackson, Houston was in the midst of an attempted career revival. She was found dead at age 48 on Saturday in her Los Angeles hotel room on the eve of the Grammys, a stage she once ruled.
It could be weeks before the coroner's office completes toxicology tests that could establish the cause of death.
In an outpouring of grief – and a desire to remember her soaring voice and upbeat personality – Houston's fans have propelled her decades-old recordings to the top of sales charts on iTunes and Amazon.com. Twitter recorded more than 2.5 million Tweets about her within two hours of her death.
Not unlike Jackson's posthumous star turn in the movie "This Is It,...
- 2/14/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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