If you cast your mind back to 2015, you may recall that Lionsgate announced a live action adaptation of the bestselling manga series Naruto, attaching director Michael Gracey to the project. Gracey has since went on to direct the musical hit The Greatest Showman, and during an interview with Collider, the filmmaker offered a brief […]
Fox wanted The Greatest Showman to be a jukebox musical
After close to a decade in development, the Hugh Jackman-headlined musical The Greatest Showman finally made it to the screen this month. One big selling point of the film was its original music numbers, but director Michael Gracey has revealed to Den of Geek that 20th Century Fox was originally pushing for a ‘jukebox musical’, […]
Logan director James Mangold oversaw reshoots and post-production on The Greatest Showman
According to Variety, Hugh Jackman and 20th Century Fox enlisted the aid of The Wolverine and Logan director James Mangold to help oversee reshoots and post-production on the newly-released musical The Greatest Showman. The site reports that the studio became concerned that original director Michael Gracey – who was making his feature debut on the […]
Movie Review – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Keala Settle, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Sam Humphrey, Eric Anderson, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the […]
Second Opinion – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ziv Zaifman, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS The Greatest Showman is the tale of entertainment revolutionary P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and the extraordinary lengths he went to bring spectacle to […]
Movie Review – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS: We meet a young Phineas Taylor Barnum, whose father is a tailor. Barnum and his father visit rich people’s houses, where Barnum becomes enamoured with Charity, the […]
The Greatest Showman gets a new trailer
With a little over five weeks to go until The Greatest Showman arrives in US cinemas, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming biographical musical drama which stars Hugh Jackman in the lead role as showman and founder the Barnum & Bailey Travelling Circus, P.T. Barnum; watch it below… “The Greatest Showman” is […]