Paramount Pictures re-releasing GREASE to movie theaters in July ~

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:50am

In a sing-along format. Exact date is to be determined.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:05am

Here is MORE info this nimrod forgot to even mention. Seriously.

GREASE Sing-A-Long 2010 - 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 , 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!

The world premiere is June 25, 2010 at The Hollywood Bowl - with a national rollout to follow in July.

Here is a Los Angeles Times article about Didi Conn (the 1978 film-version's Frenchie) hosting the premiere at The Hollywood Bowl:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/hollywood-bowl-announces-didi-conn-will-host-grease-adds-concert-by-phoenix-and-grizzly-bear.html

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:19am

And now let me get all BrodyFosse on your @sses a/k/a THE KING OF THE NIMRODS OF BWW and show off my some of my GREASE collection courtesy of a very good friend of mine over at Paramount Studios.

And of course in the spirit of BrodyFosse by posting these and showing them off to all of you here it really does make me unequivocally BETTER THAN YOU!

IMAGES WERE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME. LMAO. Updated On: 5/5/10 at 01:19 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:24am

Ooops my bad: Here's ANOTHER ONE for you all to drooool ovah!

IMAGES WERE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME. LMAO. Updated On: 5/5/10 at 01:24 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:32am

When Grease was on HBO in the late 70s/early 80s I asked my mom what fongool meant. She was not happy.

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:39am

Ooooh Well lookie here. You wanted to get in to the WORLD PREMIERE at Mann's Chinese Theater? Well, you needed one of these baby or you were goin' NOWHERE....


IMAGES WERE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME. LMAO.
Updated On: 5/5/10 at 01:39 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:41am

LOL @ PRS! Yes I think I asked that question as well.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:52am

I actually just had to look it up, because I didn't know it.

I feel...enlightened?

And I love that artwork for Grease. It's nice to see them in color, since I'd only previously seen them in Frenchie's Grease Scrapbook (Which I got as a 11th Birthday present, the year it came out. I was *so* excited.)

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:01am

I love the artwork as well. They only used it briefly and then decided to go with the now classic shot of Olivia with her hand on John's shoulder shot, which honestly I don't really care for.

The completed art as seen in the advanced promotional ad with the June 14th start date was originally supposed to be the cover of the soundtrack album.

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:31am

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:


“GREASE SING-ALONG”
Paramount Pictures presents
A Robert Stigwood/Allan Carr Production
Produced by Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr
Screenplay by Bronte Woodard
Adaptation by Allan Carr
Based on the original musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Produced on the Broadway Stage by Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox
In association with Anthony D’amato
Directed by Randal Kleiser


Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing

Special guest appearances by Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostly, Dody Goodman and
Sha-Na-Na.


Synopsis: 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!


Release: July TBD


This film has been rated PG.



Updated On: 5/5/10 at 02:31 AM

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:41am

Is this LA only? Or will it be released nationally?

(And what is really the point?)

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:41am

Paramount is expanding it's GREASE franchise. A line of checkbooks, manufactured by StylesCheck is very successful and continues to grow and now 505 Games in conjunction with Paramount Digital Entertainment is developing a GREASE game for the Nintendo Wii proving that GREASE is still the word..

GREASE checks, video game Updated On: 5/5/10 at 02:41 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:42am

It will have a NATIONAL RELEASE in JULY.

The point is: GREASE IS STILL THE WORD.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:51am

And now, on my iPod, the soundtrack has new artwork

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 3:10am

OH.NO.YOU.DI'NT!!!

Updated On: 5/5/10 at 03:10 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 3:15am

If I start seeing these images popping up on the internet I know where they originated from.

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 3:22am

I designed this one for a friend to use on his iTouch:

Posted: 5/5/10 at 5:14am

"When Grease was on HBO in the late 70s/early 80s I asked my mom what fongool meant. She was not happy."

I Just finished a production of Grease in Houston directed by Kevin Cahoon. All of the principal characters looked this up together because none of us knew what it meant. We were all very surprised, and needless to say, it changed the way we looked at the song. haha

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:06am

I adore GREASE, always have, always will. I was always so angry that they cut "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" for the TV version (this was before video). I would just fume. I think my parents knew I was gay in that moment. I was like 7 years old.

However, whoever thought up the idea of sing-a-longs is bonkers. Let's encourage people to speak more in a theatre. Great idea. I have to fight on a weekly basis to get people to shut up in every movie nowadays. I won't be attending the sing-a-long. It would make me nuts to listen to people sing with the actors.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:24am

It's far from being a 'World Premiere'.
Sing-Along-A 'Grease' has been playing major theatres across the UK for at least the last 10 years and still continues to do so, filling 2000 seater's every night
It occasionally plays a West End theatres too.

Other Sing A Longs that are always touring the UK include;
'The Sound Of Music'
'Annie'
'Oliver!'
'Joseph'
'Hairspray'
'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'
and 'High School Musical'
All accompanied by a floor show with fancy dress blah blah blah.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:35am

Marquise -- I adore you but seriously, you and virtually everyone else on this board need to lighten-up. If only you guys could see thru my silliness and see how deliberate ALL my obnoxious postings are. They are fully intended to be pretentious, condescending and pathetic. Simple things that amuse me -- seeing how you guys react to all that.

Calling me on it is seriously pointless. I'm onto my own bulls**t.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:55am

Then do us a favor and punch yourself in the face.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:17pm

"When Grease was on HBO in the late 70s/early 80s I asked my mom what fongool meant. She was not happy."

ME, TOO!! But my mom couldn't really pull a 'shocked' card. Cause she used to (and still does) say it. All. The. Time.

However, when I asked the meaning of the words 'tit' and 'pu$$y'?

Shoe came off.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:43pm

I have the bluray which is wonderful and has the sing-a-long feature included. A few years ago they had a grease re release sing-a-long premiere at the Outfest film festival. I think I will stay with my memory of that rather than go to the Bowl and ruin my memory of it with a evening full of breeders and their children.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:01pm

mama, maybe this is the world premiere of the newly restored print.

I am not a big fan of sing-a-longs (except Rocky Horror) at the movies so I will most likely pass on this one. I would love to see it again on the big screen though.