Movie musicals to be released next year?

You seem to know a bit about these. Is there any progress on the oft-proposed remake of Jesus Christ Superstar?

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Lucky Stiff maybe?

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Considering Les Mis was released last year (though made a good chunk of its $$ in 2013), does that that '13 will be movie musical free?

Last year also had the Rock of Ages bomb. '11 just had The Muppets. Nothing in '10 (of note -- I don't count Burlesque as a real musical), '09 had another bomb Nine. '08 was Mamma Mia and HSM3. '04-07 had a few each, many financial letdowns, though Hairspray was a hit and Sweeney Todd did fairly well worldwide. Hopefully '14 has several more than we already suspect and that at least one's a hit to keep the funding flowing. Money isn't everything, but it does get movies made.

Updated On: 6/8/13 at 01:37 AM

JPbran you're a cutie.

Side note: I love love love love LOVE the Muppets. Excited for another movie. Visiting the Jim Henson studio is on my bucket list. It'll never happen but worth wishing for.

It seems like the Miss Saigon movie has been hanging about for forever. I had hoped the success of Les Mis would push that into motion.

Guys and Dolls


Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon Levitt

It seems JERSEY BOYS and ANNIE may indeed happen in time for 2014 releases. Four movie musicals in one year?! When was the last time THAT happened?

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Personally, I wish they would make movies of STARMITES and ZANNA, DON'T! but since those are relatively obscure musicals (even though ZANNA's controversialness has caused high school productions thereof to make some headlines and STARMITES was a Tony nominee back in the 80s.)
The more popular musicals I would like to see onscreen are WICKED, PROMISES PROMISES (because if they made a HAIRSPRAY non-musical movie and a musical one, why can't they do the same here), GUYS AND DOLLS, SPRING AWAKENING and NEXT TO NORMAL

Personally, I wish they would make movies of STARMITES and ZANNA, DON'T! but since those are relatively obscure musicals (even though ZANNA's controversialness has caused high school productions thereof to make some headlines and STARMITES was a Tony nominee back in the 80s.)

In early 2011, Starmites was briefly being tabled as an animated film (re-titled Starmasterz) by a Russian studio, to feature some huge names (a lot of divas were kicked around, predictably enough, for Diva, including Bette Midler, though never as more than a name written on a scratch pad in someone's office; it didn't last long enough), but the money people who were supposed to hook up the package pulled out due to doubts over the nature of the project and the creatives involved. (Translation: Barry Keating is a cuckoo clock.)

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