Jennifer Lopez to Star in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Film- Page 15

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 8:29am

Day after that comes across as very Les Mis. Don’t get me wrong I really like it, but I can see why it was cut 

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 9:09am

binau said: "How thin/poppy/autotuned does Jennifer Lopez sound in the songs? I don’t think I could go any thinner than Vanessa Williams without being a little disappointed. Doesn’t have to be Chita though clearly.

Does anyone think that Nicole S would actually be amazing in a revival? She can go the full spectrum of dark, quiet, eerie and powerful belt. Plus she has the stage presence. The kind of names thrown around previously (Audra, DeBose) haven’t quite felt right."

100%. I would kill for a Jamie Lloyd production of Spider woman starring Nicole. 

[vfd88]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 10:25am

iluvtheatertrash said: "No “Day After That” is very disappointing."

I saw it at Sundance and I was most disappointed by this cut. It’s replaced with a monologue where Valentin describes the political rally from the song but Diego Luna (as with the rest of his performance) underplays it in a way that’s pretty uninspiring. 

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 12:44pm

Really looking forward to seeing this.  

As we all know, once film rights are bought and sold, all bets are off.  Unless it's in the terms of the contract that all the songs have to remain, no changes can be made, etc, then it's complete open season for changes.  "Cabaret" is the perfect example.  

[Listener]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 1:37am

I'm curious what you mean by this, regarding the Cabaret movie. I don't know the full history there. Were songs and sequences cut after it was all shot because of studio preferences...?

[FolliesCabaret]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 2:40am

nealb1 said: "Really looking forward to seeing this.

As we all know, once film rights are bought and sold, all bets are off. Unless it's in the terms of the contract that all the songs have to remain, no changes can be made, etc, then it's complete open season for changes. "Cabaret" is the perfect example."

I think that's more of a Bob Fosse example and less of a Cabaret example.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 4:07pm

Listener said: "I'm curious what you mean by this, regarding the Cabaret movie. I don't know the full history there. Were songs and sequences cut after it was all shot because of studio preferences...?"

Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation of CABARET, just like the film adaptation of WICKED did with Gregory Maguire's original novel and Broadway production, used both the original source books by Christopher Isherwood and the 1966 Broadway production. Bob Fosse's concept was to keep CABARET in a realistic setting therefore chose to keep all the musical numbers (aside from the outdoor "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" number) performed strictly inside the Kit Kat Klub. All the book songs were cut from the written script including the characters that sang them, even though they are seen briefly and instrumental versions of cut songs underscore scenes. What you see in the film is exactly what was filmed.  John Kander and Fred Ebb wanted new songs in the film which is why several "performance" songs from the original Broadway production were replaced with new songs ("Mein Herr", "Money, Money, Money", and their recycled "Maybe This Time").  The multi-Oscar winning film released theatrically in 1972 is exactly what was greenlit and filmed.  

[kdogg36]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 5:16pm

I interpreted nealb1's comment to mean that filmmakers are free to make changes to the original material once the deal is made (barring any contractual stipulations to the contrary), and that Kiss of the Spider Woman resembles Cabaret in the sense that the director chose to exclude a large number of nondiegetic songs. I don't think they meant to imply that things got cut after the film was shot.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/20/25 at 10:25pm

So..did anyone pick this movie up for distribution? 

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 3/20/25 at 10:52pm

DAME said: "So..did anyone pick this movie up for distribution?"

Welllllll that typically comes with a press release and if Googling didn't give you one then the answer would be no. 

[TBFL]

Posted: 3/21/25 at 1:16am

BrodyFosse123 said: "Listener said: "I'm curious what you mean by this, regarding the Cabaret movie. I don't know the full history there. Were songs and sequences cut after it was all shot because of studio preferences...?"

Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation of CABARET, just like the film adaptation of WICKED did with Gregory Maguire's original novel and Broadway production, used both the original source books by Christopher Isherwood and the 1966 Broadway production. Bob Fosse's concept was to keep CABARET in a realistic setting therefore chose to keep all themusical numbers (aside from the outdoor "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" number) performed strictly inside the Kit Kat Klub. All the book songs were cut from the written script including the characters that sang them, even though they are seen briefly and instrumental versions of cut songs underscore scenes. What you see in the film is exactly what was filmed. John Kander and Fred Ebb wanted new songs in the film which is why several "performance" songs from the original Broadway production were replaced with new songs ("Mein Herr", "Money, Money, Money", and their recycled "Maybe This Time"). The multi-Oscar winning film released theatrically in 1972 is exactly what was greenlit and filmed. "

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 "They finally showed it to us – this is a terrible thing to confess – they had a screening just for Fred and me and we sat there afterwards and didn’t know what to say to these people whom we liked so much because we just hated it"

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/21/25 at 8:54am

TheatreFan4 said: "DAME said: "So..did anyone pick this movie up for distribution?"

Welllllll that typically comes with a press release and if Googling didn't give you one then the answer would be no."

Well that was just F’ing rude. People on this board do have inside information some times, who can answer without giving details away. But this seems to be you in a nutshell rude! 

[Papi2013]

Posted: 3/21/25 at 3:32pm

TheatreFan4 said: "DAME said: "So..did anyone pick this movie up for distribution?"

Welllllll that typically comes with a press release and if Googling didn't give you one then the answer would be no."

This is a rude and obnoxious answer. Doesn’t contribute to healthy discussion at all. There are people on this board that have a lot of knowledge and information and have been proven to be right about a lot of things in the past. The general Google doesn’t know this stuff .

Updated On: 3/21/25 at 03:32 PM

[joevitus]

Posted: 3/21/25 at 4:19pm

TheatreFan4 said: "DAME said: "So..did anyone pick this movie up for distribution?"

Welllllll that typically comes with a press release and if Googling didn't give you one then the answer would be no."

What a sh*tty answer. Be better.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 3/23/25 at 8:17pm

Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, and LD Entertainment are in final talks to acquire domestic distribution rights.
https://deadline.com/2025/03/kiss-of-the-spider-woman-roadside-attraction-lionsgate-1236283349/

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/23/25 at 9:12pm

That’s a very exciting update. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/23/25 at 9:22pm

Not exactly tip-top-tier companies, but at least that means it'll get a theatrical release instead of straight to streaming.

(Mickey Liddell's LD Entertainment has co-produced about two dozen Broadway shows, including several with Kirdahy,  in addition to its film financing work)

[mrshowbiz90210]

Posted: 3/24/25 at 10:00am

Roadside  and Lionsgate not top tier? Stick to theater darling. Both of these companies are major players. I think Lopez will be great, as to the material holding up? who knows/             

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 3/24/25 at 10:13am

I wouldn’t say Lionsgate/Roadside acquiring distribution bodes particularly well for the movie’s pedigree, especially one that had early Oscar buzz for its leading lady (which is starting to feel more like Home for Purim than anything). A quick browse of Roadside and Lionsgate’s collective list of films shows far more misses than hits, and the hits are mostly either Saw or John Wick with a couple award hopefuls in there every few years (a Last Showgirl here, a Manchester by the Sea there).

Updated On: 3/24/25 at 10:13 AM

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 3/25/25 at 2:31pm

The distribution deal has been completed. The movie is expected to be released in theaters sometime this fall to conjunction with awards season.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/KISS-OF-THE-SPIDER-WOMAN-Movie-Hitting-Theaters-This-Fall-20250325

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 3/25/25 at 2:32pm

Officially acquired by Roadside - Fall release planned for Oscar Season push

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/25/25 at 2:43pm

Great news to hear today.  Looking forward to seeing it.  The fall will be here before you know it.  

[mshetina]

Posted: 3/25/25 at 3:04pm

ColorTheHours048 said: "I wouldn’t say Lionsgate/Roadside acquiring distribution bodes particularly well for the movie’s pedigree, especially one that had early Oscar buzz for its leading lady (which is starting to feel more like Home for Purim than anything). A quick browse of Roadside and Lionsgate’s collective list of films shows far more misses than hits, and the hits are mostly either Saw or John Wick with a couple award hopefuls in there every few years (a Last Showgirl here, a Manchester by the Sea there)."

The good news is that an aggressively mediocre movie adapted from a stage show and distributed by Roadside Attractions netted Renée Zellweger an inexplicable second Oscar. (The reproductions of Judy's 60s outfits were at least fun.)

The bad news is that Roadside's movies - like a lot of comparable distributors - feel ephemeral post-COVID. They had another Affleck/Damon produced movie Small Things Like These last year - starring Cillian Murphy fresh off an Oscar win in a Best Picture-winning blockbuster - and it barely made 1.6 million domestic. The Last Showgirl made 4.7 and the goodwill from the Pamela Anderson comeback narrative/press tour at least made more people aware its existence. But neither of those movies were made with a 60 million reported budget...

Lopez has a following, but is it really that big these days? It's been a long time since Hustlers and the vanity projects seem to have damaged her reputation.

Does anyone have a better handle on the financials of the deal? 

Updated On: 3/25/25 at 03:04 PM

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 3/25/25 at 4:05pm

Lopez has a following, but is it really that big these days? It's been a long time since Hustlersand the vanity projects seem to have damaged her reputation.

Does anyone have a better handle on the financials of the deal?"

It's been a while since Hustlers, yes, but that could well work in JLo's favor - awards voters love an overdue narrative, especially when there's a blatant snub factored into the equation. Considering Roadside Attractions got Pamela Anderson within a hop, skip, and a jump of an Oscar nomination last year for a film that was barely released with similar mixed-positive reviews, a full court press for JLo will give her a much stronger position for Oscar.

[perfectliar]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 3:39pm

Wide release on October 10