"Across The Universe"
"Across The Universe Trailer" - First Look
"Across The Universe" - In Theaters September 14, 2007
March 15, 2007: As far as we know, www.wildaboutmovies.com is the first medium in the world to report on Julie Taymor's, Columbia Pictures', Revolution Studios', "Across The Universe."
Our 18-year-old, Scottsdale, AZ., Horizon High School, soon-to-be graduate, current intern and soon-to-be full-time WAM correspondent, Scott, was invited to a TEST SCREENING of a movie not in theaters until September 28, 2007.
"I was invited to the movie, ("Across The Universe"), yesterday," said Scott, when he was in our office, today. "And I had no interest in going to the screening (at the Harkins Cine-Capri). But my girlfriend ended up going to dinner with her two friends, ditching me. So, I called my friend Chad and we went to the movie, not knowing a fucking thing about it. Except that it was a movie with fucking "Beatles" songs. We thought the movie would be geared more toward people our parents' ages. We had no idea that everyone who stars in the movie was under 21 and fucking amazing. After seeing 'Across The Universe,' I have to say, as does my friend Todd, the movie is going to be huge and we will never pass up an opportunity to see a test screening."
We, Wild About Movies, think that "Hairspray The Movie," may have an inch on "Across The Universe." But we haven't seen "Hairspray The Movie," yet and let no one forget that "The Producers" tanked at the movie box office after breaking Broadway box office records. So, a hit Broadway musical does not a hit movie make!
If what Scott and Chad have to say means a thing, well, then, "Across The Universe" will be a hit. And Revolution/Columbia Pictures certainly took a big chance on the musical "Across The Universe."
Their last musical, (not including "Marie Antoinette"), "Rent," (another Broadway hit musical), was a huge disappointment at the movie box office, on DVD and was panned by most critics.
TO READ ABOUT THE HUGE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING "Across the Universe Movie," between its director Julie Taymor and Revolution Studios CEO Joe Roth, click on the link below. Wild About Movies was at the screening mentioned in the NY Times story in the link below.
"ACROSS THE UNIVERSE MOVIE" Controversy - CLICK HERE
OFFICIAL NONSENSICAL SYNOPSIS: At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, Revolution Studios' "Across the Universe" is an original movie musical springing from the imagination of renowned director Julie Taymor ("Frida," "Titus," and the Broadway smash hit musical "The Lion King") and writers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais ("The Commitments")
A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy - against all odds - to find their own way back to each other - "Across The Universe."
STARRING: Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Evan Rachel Wood, Dana Fuchs, Salma Hayek, Eddie Izzard, Bono (yes, U2's, Bono)
DIRECTOR: Julie Taymor
STUDIO: Columbia Pictures
RATING: PG-13 (For Langauge, adult situations, war and anti-war protest violence, nudity, (male ass and female titties, sexual situations - under the covers). But, it's PG-13, guys. No copulation or thrusting shown!)
Wild About Movies Grade: A
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