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| | Playbill News: Track Listing Announced for "Producers" Film Soundtrack |
 | | The original 1968 "The Producers" film about a conniving producer starred Zero Mostel as producer Bialystock and Gene Wilder as Bloom. | | | Twenty-three tracks comprise the soundtrack for the eagerly awaited film of "The Producers," the upcoming movie based on the Tony-winning musical of the same name, which itself was based on the original Mel Brooks film. | | | In addition to most of the songs found in the Broadway musical, the soundtrack will also include "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway," a new tune penned for the film, which is performed by co-stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Producers (2001 Original Broadway Cast): Music: Mel Brooks,Matthew Broderick,Nathan Lane,Roger Bart,Gary Beach,Cady Huffman,Jesse Levy,Grace Paradise, Jennifer Smith Tony Kadleck |
| | The Producers was the vehicle that first proclaimed Mel Brooks's decidedly singular comic vision as a film director in 1968. | | | What a treat to listen to the soundtrack of Mel Brooks' musical comedy based on his 1968 movie of the same name. | | | Brooks is, of course, no stranger to the Broadway musical genre or to songwriting, but skeptics might find themselves taken by surprise at just how outrageously well all the threads come together for the new show. |
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| | The Producers |
| | Brooks’ Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, THE PRODUCERS, the new MEL BROOKS musical, is the story of down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a mousy accountant. | | | THE PRODUCERS, the new MEL BROOKS musical, received a record eleven 2001 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical, Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, Outstanding Orchestrations, Outstanding Set Design of a Musical, and Outstanding Costume Design. | | | THE PRODUCERS, the new MEL BROOKS musical, will make its North Texas premiere as a presentation of Dallas Summer Musicals 65th season, at the Music Hall at Fair Park June 7-19, 2005. |
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| | WMU News - Mel Brooks' 'The Producers' comes to Kalamazoo |
| | Based on Brooks' Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, "The Producers is the story of down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a mousy accountant. | | | Tony Award winner "The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical" comes to Miller Auditorium at Western Michigan University for eight performances Tuesday, Nov. 30, through Sunday, Dec. 5. | | | KALAMAZOO--"Mel Brooks has put the comedy back into musical comedy," says USA Today, "'The Producers' is the funniest, most fearlessly irreverent thing ever seen on stage!" |
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| | The Producers Tickets - The Producers Theater Tickets - Theatre Ticket Brokers |
| | His comedy gem The Producers began as a film starring Zero Mostel as an exuberant but hitless Broadway producer and Gene Wilder as his shy and risk-averse accountant, earning Brooks the 1968 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. | | | Get your tickets to The Producers and experience a side-splitting musical comedy in the classic Broadway tradition. | | | The Producers shows us what happens when Max Bialystock, the financially desperate producer (brought to life on the stage by Nathan Lane), and Leo Bloom, the timid accountant (stage role originated by Matthew Broderick), glom onto a fool-proof scheme to make a fortune. |
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| | The Producers Tickets - The Producers Theater Tour Schedule Show Tickets Broker |
| | This is Broadway's biggest hit in many a year: the stage version of Mel Brooks's great 1968 film The Producers. | | | Today, they're singing a different tune, for 'The Producers,' based on Mel Brooks' classic 1968 film, has redefined the term "Broadway mega-hit." The story itself is perfect farce: A madcap producer and his sheepish accountant look to mount a Broadway catastrophe while absconding with their investors' money. | | | Until 'The Producers' landed on Broadway and won a record-breaking 12 Tony’s and sold out for months, show biz folks believed it. |
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| | Johnny Cash-Johnny Cash! The Man; His World; His Music (1969) |
| | The shooting covered the period between the mixing sessions for 'Land Of Israel', a track on Cash's spiritual LP The Holy Land, in the final weeks of 1968 to the Country Music Association awards ceremony in the early autumn of 1969. | | | The producers of the documentary movie Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music set out to focus on one of the leading lights of country music in the late 1960s. | | | The film - first shown in Britain on cinema screens, rather than TV - was shot over slightly less than a year. |
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| | The Producers Tickets The Producers Information on Broadway.com |
| | Based on the Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, The Producers is the story of down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a mousy accountant. | | | The Producers is "a cast-iron, super-duper mammoth old-time Broadway hit!" | | | The Producers has become a Broadway phenomenon, turning the tradition of a Broadway musical on its head and earning more Tony Awards than any other show in the history of the Great White Way. |
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| | United Press International: 'PRODUCERS' IS BIG BROADWAY HIT@ HighBeam Research |
| | NEW YORK, Apr 23, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Mel Brooks' musical adaptation of his 1968 film, "The Producers," is the big hit that Broadway has been waiting for all season, making superstars of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick and proving that old fashioned musical comedy isn't dead yet. | | | The opening of the show last weekend with an advance ticket sale of $15 million caused such a rush for tickets on Tele-Charge and at the box office that the producers of "The Producers" hiked their top ticket price... | | | United Press International: 'PRODUCERS' IS BIG BROADWAY HIT@ HighBeam Research |
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| | Biography for Mel Brooks (I) |
| | He scored a hit on TV by cocreating "Get Smart" (1965-69), and this won him the backing, from Joseph E. Levine, for his first feature film, The Producers (1968), which he wrote and directed. | | | Calls wife Anne Bancroft his "Obi-Wan Kenobi" since she encouraged him to turn his movie Producers, The (1968) into a Broadway musical. | | | After years of writing sketches for TV and Broadway revues (one of which, New Faces was filmed in 1954), Brooks made his first mark on film by creating, with Ernie Pintoff, a hilarious Oscar-winning animated short, The Critic (1963). |
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| | Encyclopedia: 100 Years Series |
| | The Producers is a 1968 feature length comedy film set in New York City in which two con-men attempt to cheat theatre angels (investors) out of their investment money. | | | Film poster for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (20th anniversary) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film that tells the story of the young boy Elliott who befriends an alien being trapped on Earth and trying to find his way home. | | | Father of the Bride is a 1950 comedy film which tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that shes engaged, until the wedding actually occurs. |
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| | Mel Brooks News |
| | Mel Brooks, who made a monster hit musical out of his 1968 movie The Producers, is adapting his classic 1974 film Young Frankenstein for the musical stage as well, the Reuters news service reported. | | | Movie mogul Mel Brooks is bringing his horror comedy Young Frankenstein to the stage after wowing audiences with "The Producers." The actor/writer has told internet radio talk show The Young Turks that the... | | | March 16, 2006 What Mel Brooks did for Yiddish humor in ''The Producers" Eric Idle does for British irreverence in ''Monty Python's Spamalot." Idle makes a few more compromises in turning ''Monty Python and the... |
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| | Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing |
| | Unfortunately, the producers of the film version of the Broadway musical version of the 1968 movie version of The Producers are likely to have the opposite reaction when they read today's reviews: their sure-bet hit, many critics are suggesting, is likely to be a flop. | | | There is a scene in The Producers in which the title characters, who had hoped to produce a bomb in order to keep the investors' money, discover that their production is actually a hit. | | | Today's (Friday) Daily Variety observed that Disney and China's state-run CCTV8 had finalized a deal last summer and had originally indicated that it would go on the air in September. |
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| | Alan Smithee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Alan Smithee, Allen Smithee, and Adam Smithee are pseudonyms used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. | | | It was used when the director could prove to the satisfaction of a panel of members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers that the film had been wrested from his or her creative control. | | | The DGA decided the film could carry the pseudonym "Allen Smithee"; the work was praised by The New York Times film critics among others. |
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| | Alan Smithee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Alan Smithee, Allen Smithee, Alan Smythee, and Adam Smithee are pseudonyms used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. | | | It was used when the director could prove to the satisfaction of a panel of members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers that the film had been wrested from his or her creative control. | | | In 1997 the comedy An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn was released, in which a director wants to disown a film but cannot because his real name is Alan Smithee. |
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| | MovieMusicals.net - Index.html |
| | When I walked into the theatre, I was expecting to see the same old 'Producers' gags I saw from the cast in the Broadway production and even some from the original 1968 film. | | | The film is described as a "down and dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class." Nick (Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. | | | The failures of 'Phantom,' 'Rent' and 'Producers' have certainly hurt the movie musical genre as it is known today. |
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| | The Producers: The Movie Musical (2005) |
| | Film version of Mel Brook's Broadway musical, which was based on his 1968 film, The Producers. | | | In a nutshell, it's the story of two Broadway producers who crunch the investment numbers and come up with a great scheme to make money on a sure-fire flop. | | | When the play turns out to be a hit, the two men are sunk. |
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| | Brooks, Mel on Encyclopedia.com |
| | He also scored a hit with a 1964 comedy recording, in which he played an irascible, Yiddish-accented 2,000-year-old man. Turning to film, he wrote and directed The Producers (1968), a comic masterpiece of uproarious bad taste. | | | Brooks turned to the stage in 2001, adapting his first film hit, The Producers, into a smash hit, Tony-winning Broadway musical. | | | His other hit comedies are usually wild parodies that mix satire with slapstick; they include Blazing Saddles (1974), a spoof of Western movies; Young Frankenstein (1975), a Brooksian take on the horror genre, and High Anxiety (1977), a comic version of Alfred Hitchcock 's spine-tinglers. |
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| | ParlInfo Web - View Document |
| | The amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 provide for film directors to be joint copyright owners of their films, along with producers, for the purposes of the retransmission statutory licence in Part VC of the Copyright Act. | | | Section 98 of the Act relates to ownership of copyright in cinematograph films. | | | According to the Australian Film Commission, all three of the feature film co-productions (ie with a mix of Australians and foreigners in key creative positions) during the 1999/2000 financial year were directed by Australians. |
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| | Poirier, Anne Claire |
| | Her first full-length film, De mère en fille (1968), dealt with the physical and emotional experience of pregnancy. | | | In 1973 Poirier produced the "En tant que femmes" series which offered female film producers their first organized platform for expression. | | | She joined the NATIONAL FILM BOARD in 1960, eventually going into film direction, which had been essentially a male preserve. |
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| | Amazon.com: DVD: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975) |
| | Mort Shuman and Eric Blau (whose wife is singer Elly Stone) were co-producers of the theatre cabaret version of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" which opened on January 22, 1968 at the Village Gate on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village, where it ran for over 1800 performances. | | | People who remember all of the music from 1968 ought to remember an album called "Wildflowers" on which Judy Collins sang "La Chanson des vieux amants" with the original words by Jacques Brel, music and words by Jacques Brel and Gerard Jouannest. | | | For people who have seen the film, Mort Shuman (1937-1991) might be remembered as the singer of "The Taxi Cab Driver" which is selection 8 on the DVD. |
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| | LEE EVANS - LONDON PREPARES FOR THE PRODUCERS |
| | The show, which is based on MEL BROOKS 1968 film will open at the THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE next November (04). | | | The Producers tells the tale of a producer and an accountant's attempts to pull of a theatrical scam. | | | British actor-comedian LEE EVANS will star alongside American actor RICHARD DREYFUSS in a London West End production of Broadway musical THE PRODUCERS. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Weird, odd and quirky stories - It's springtime for Hitler in Germany - literally |
| | The Producers is the stage version of Brooks’s Oscar-winning 1968 film and centres on the has-been producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom, who set out to make a fortune by creating the world’s worst musical. | | | Story in full THE Producers, Mel Brooks’s musical which sends up the Nazi regime and features the song Springtime For Hitler, could be opening in a surprise new venue - Berlin. | | | They come up with Springtime For Hitler, a concept so tasteless it should be a sure-fire flop. |
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| | Las Vegas Weekly Departments: Film |
| | I knew Alan Johnson, who is a friend of John Morris, and Alan Johnson did the choreography for "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers. | | | The Movie Guys: In your first film, The Producers (1968), where did the inspiration for the song "Springtime For Hitler" come from? | | | He sat at the piano and played a variation of "Springtime for Hitler." He suggested that the first eight notes (Mel sings the first eight notes of "Springtime For Hitler") be the theme. |
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| | CNN.com - Lane, Broderick to remake 'Producers' - Jan. 7, 2004 |
| | Mel Brooks is the mastermind behind both the 1968 film and the Broadway musical of "The Producers." | | | CNN.com - Lane, Broderick to remake 'Producers' - Jan. 7, 2004 | | | All external sites will open in a new browser. |
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| | MPAA Ratings @ Filmbug UK |
| | Movie publishers generally specify the desired MPAA rating in their contract with the movie producer, so it is common to hear of producers re-editing in order to achieve the desired rating, by trimming several seconds of the film footage in question. | | | The MPAA film rating system was instituted in November 1968 as an alternative to federal regulation of motion picture content by the United States government. | | | The MPAA film rating system is a system which attempts to rate a movie based on its content, helping patrons decide which movies may be appropriate for children of different ages. |
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| | Book Review: Media Marathon: A Twentieth-Century Memoir |
| | In 1968, the American government found the film and planned to turn the seized original back to Japan. | | | My favorite chapter appears toward the end of the book when Barnouw chronicles his relationship with Akira Iwasaki, one of Japan's best film producers. | | | Barnouw read a news clipping and managed to obtain the film for Columbia University Press. |
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| | MGC - Moviegeek Feature: Hollywood under fire |
| | With that rating, the parent studio dumped it, and the producers were forced to self-release as an unrated film, and self-promote using flyers and alternative publications. | | | His position, summarized, is that only the elitist critics are upset about the way films are rated, and that the ratings are designed to provide a guide to parents as to what their children should see. | | | The ratings board simply came up with a general impression of the film as a whole, and based their rating on a group consensus. |
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