Paramount’s plan to tell you more, tell you more about the crucial amorous 1950s-set teen backstory to its iconic 1978 musical, Grease, appears to be coming to fruition. The project, a prequel movie titled Summer Lovin’, went into development last year and has just procured a director in Brett Haley.
Summer Lovin’ is officially moving forward with Haley in the director’s chair, reports Deadline. A surging indie talent for whom the film will serve as a potential mainstream breakthrough, Haley will work off a script by Leah McKendrick, a surging talent poised to break out in her own right. They will be joined here by producers in Temple Hill and Picturestart. Interestingly, the report points to studio enthusiasm strong enough for the project to serve as a potential franchise-launcher.
As the title implies, Summer Lovin’ will chronicle Grease’s plot-establishing 1958-set California teen romance between local greaser Danny Zuko...
Summer Lovin’ is officially moving forward with Haley in the director’s chair, reports Deadline. A surging indie talent for whom the film will serve as a potential mainstream breakthrough, Haley will work off a script by Leah McKendrick, a surging talent poised to break out in her own right. They will be joined here by producers in Temple Hill and Picturestart. Interestingly, the report points to studio enthusiasm strong enough for the project to serve as a potential franchise-launcher.
As the title implies, Summer Lovin’ will chronicle Grease’s plot-establishing 1958-set California teen romance between local greaser Danny Zuko...
- 7/20/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
We have standard and high definition clips in from Paramount Pictures' "Grease Sing-a-Long" which finds release on July 8th. Rydell High's most famous graduating class is going back to school. A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time, "Grease" (1978), to the big screen as a sing-along. Join Danny and Sandy with your own crew of T-Birds and Pink Ladies for a carnival ride back to those amazing summer nights! Randal Kleiser directed the film from the Bronte Woodard, adapted by Allan Car from the Musical by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey.
- 7/8/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Grease Sing-a-Long not playing in your town? Bring it to sing it! Go to DEMAND_IT www.greasemovie.com Paramount Pictures presents a Robert Stigwood/Allan Carr Production. Screenplay by Bronte Woodard. Based on the original musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Produced on the Broadway Stage by Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox. Directed by Randal Kleiser. Starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing. Special guest appearances by Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Ed Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostly, Dody Goodman and Sha-Na-Na. Rydell High's most famous graduating class is going back to school. A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time, 1978 film "Grease", to the big screen as a sing-along. Join Danny and Sandy with...
- 7/5/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Chicago – Get on your dancing shoes before you hit the floor for the latest version of the toe-tapping Blu-Ray Round-Up, a special edition with three beloved flicks from the ’70s and ’80s with musical beats.
Only one (“Grease”) may be an actual musical, but people still remember the great soundtrack from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Saturday Night Fever” was all about The Bee Gees. All three titles were released on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009.
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He’s a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man, Ferris (Mathew Broderick).
One spring day, toward the end of his senior year, Ferris gives...
Only one (“Grease”) may be an actual musical, but people still remember the great soundtrack from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Saturday Night Fever” was all about The Bee Gees. All three titles were released on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009.
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He’s a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man, Ferris (Mathew Broderick).
One spring day, toward the end of his senior year, Ferris gives...
- 5/5/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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