With hit tunes, a plot about one of the world's best known performers and f...
LONDON - With hit tunes, a plot about one of the world’s best known performers and flamboyant costumes, “Rocketman” brings Elton John’s story to the big screen, the latest musical biopic offering a concert-like experience at the cinema.
That movie, which received mixed reviews, won a best actor Oscar for Rami Malek and grossed $903 million worldwide - a sign of audiences’ appetite for seeing their icons’ story and music on the silver screen. “What a lot of these films are selling is this idea that you can have the experience as if you were going to a concert ... go behind the scenes and get to know them,” Roxborough said.
“I would say ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a pressure, if anything it’s opened the gates for us,” “Rocketman” producer Matthew Vaughn told Reuters. “It’s growing constantly year on year ... as studios try and make bigger and more bombastic movies, they’re infusing musical biopics with this new energy,” Ali Griffiths, social editor at Digital Spy, said when asked about appetite for the genre.In March, Netflix released Motley Crue biopic “The Dirt” based on the heavy metal band’s autobiography and other celebrity-inspired stories are in the works.
Celine Dion is the inspiration for “The Power of Love”, which is said to draw from the pop singer’s life and will use her hit power ballads, according to film industry publications.Slideshow
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