Kiss of the Spider Woman

[BuffaloKyle]

Trailer out for Jennifer Lopez in her first movie musical role. The reviews are actually pretty decent, it had it's premiere at Sundance this past January:

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of 39 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Weaving a visually sumptuous web of musical intrigue, Kiss of the Spider Woman showcases beauty in tragedy through wondrous performances by Jennifer Lopez, Tonatiuh Elizarraraz and Diego Luna."

Comes out October 10.

 

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

The great thing about Bill Condon is that he has no issue putting a performer through 100 takes to get what he needs.

Case-in-point, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.  It took 100+ takes and three days to get exactly what he wanted for the 'And I Am Telling You' sequence.

Hudson has never been known as a great actress, but damn if she didn't take home the Oscar that year.

 

I have high hopes for Spiderwoman.

Edited June 6 by BenjaminNicholas

[+ ApexNomad]

3 hours ago, BenjaminNicholas said:

The great thing about Bill Condon is that he has no issue putting a performer through 100 takes to get what he needs.

Case-in-point, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.  It took 100+ takes and three days to get exactly what he wanted for the 'And I Am Telling You' sequence.

Hudson has never been known as a great actress, but damn if she didn't take home the Oscar that year.

 

I have high hopes for Spiderwoman.

I’m intrigued but cautious. Kiss of the Spider Woman is such a layered piece. It’ll be interesting to see what Jennifer Lopez brings to the role.

[BuffaloKyle]

1 hour ago, ApexNomad said:

I’m intrigued but cautious. Kiss of the Spider Woman is such a layered piece.

I saw this on the film's wikipedia page:

In adapting the musical to the screen, Condon cited Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation of another Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret, as a source of inspiration. This resulted in cutting almost every song set in reality at the prison where Molina and Arregui are held (including "Dressing Them Up" and "The Day After That") and only keeping the ones set in the "fantasies" Molina comes up with, in order to create a stark contrast between the grittiness of prison life in Argentina during the Dirty War and the Technicolor lavishness and beauty of a classic MGM musical film. As a result, the aspect ratio also shifts between the 1.85∶1 format during the prison scenes and the 1.33∶1 format during the fantasy sequences.

Sounds actually just like Chicago which Bill Condon wrote the screenplay for the movie version. Every song was made to be a fantasy of Roxie's which is why they cut the songs they did including Class, which they did film though, from the final version.

Edited June 6 by BuffaloKyle

[BuffaloKyle]

Jennifer performed the title song at World Pride, I would've been telling everyone around me shut the hell up for fucks sake:

 

[BuffaloKyle]

Now they just put out a TV spot already. It's not even coming out for four months.