The revival of musical and dance films triggered by "Moulin Rouge" and "Chicago" has not yet dissipated, and "Mamma Mia" has rushed into the film market with a more cheerful attitude, compiling a love fairy tale with moving song and dance.

Just as fashion and pop are often retro, the "old" fashion partition time of movies always shines.

And "Mamma Mia" is very accurately positioned, that is, a female audience.

This is a gift for all female audiences of Relativity Entertainment, middle-aged people can reminisce about their youth in the songs of the ABBA band, they can use Meryl Streep's mother as a projection of themselves, and young girls can freely indulge in the scenery of the Greek island and the happiest feeling before the wedding.

Of course, warm and touching family and friendship are indispensable.

"Mamma Mia" hits the softest and most romantic part of a woman's heart.

On the first day of the film's release in North America, the first-hand data of Embassy Pictures reached Ronan, who had just finished a meeting at the Relativity Building.

Seventy-nine percent of the audience on the first day of "Mamma Mia" were women, and more than 65 percent of the audience was over 25 years old.

On the first day of its release, the film won $15.42 million in North America, setting a North American record for a song and dance film in all time.

Meryl Streep, who used to work hard in small-budget literary films, has also proved to the world that she has box office appeal through two films "The Demon Wears Prada" and "Mamma Mia" in collaboration with Relativity Entertainment.

Regardless of Meryl Streep's rumors, one thing is undeniable, and that is that she is dedicated enough.

Hollywood's measurement of stars has never had anything to do with morality.

Meryl Streep also worked hard, with the cooperation of Relativity Entertainment, to publicly bombard a group in New York on Friday, both to earn a good name for herself and to attract attention to the film that had just begun to be screened.

"It's surprising that more and more actors are on the operating table in order to look younger, and so many actors are embarking on the road of plastic surgery. ”

In an interview with reporters at a press conference about "Mamma Mia", Meryl Streep talked about her aging appearance and fired directly at the plastic surgeons: "I can't accept this. One should be comfortable with growing old and embrace life at different ages. ”

She openly said that she is very stable in this regard: "The good thing is that when you get old, the roles that the filmmakers come to you to play are very interesting. You're no longer a pretty heroine, but you can try something different. Over the past few years, I've played a lot of unique roles on screen. ”

This caused an uproar in the media, because it is a common phenomenon for Hollywood stars to have plastic surgery or injections, and the best place in the world for high-end plastic surgery is neither in South Korea nor Thailand, but in Beverly Hills!

Meryl Streep's interview went viral, and Hollywood's plastic surgery community is so huge, but most people will remain silent at this moment.

There are also people who can't help but fight back, saying that Meryl Streep doesn't speak through her brain and doesn't think about the actual situation at all.

In some ways, this is true.

How many stars in Hollywood can still get so many heavyweight roles at Meryl Streep's age?

Some fans expressed their opinions through Netflix.

"How many people can be like Meryl Streep, almost sixty years old and have so many good plays to play? ”

"It is precisely because Meryl Streep has such status and accomplishments that words can be said so easily. ”

It is not the first time that Meryl Streep has attracted attention in a bombardment way, and it can be said that she is familiar with it, and it has also attracted the attention of more fans for "Mamma Mia".

All of these have effectively increased the popularity of the movie, thereby attracting more fans to the theater.

In the first week of North America, "Mamma Mia" unexpectedly defeated Focus Pictures' "New Pride and Prejudice" and became the top box office list in North America that week!

With $37.75 million, the film set a new weekend box office record for a musical and dance film in North America!

"As one of the participants in this historic weekend, we also contributed to its phenomenal success. Meryl Streep stepped up again and continued to cheer for herself for the film: "I've been in this business for 30 years, and it's been a crazy weekend. ”

"Mamma Mia" is not only a blockbuster, but also an original soundtrack DVD that preceded the release of the film.

A significant part of the music and songs in this film are not original, using 22 classic songs by the Swedish band ABBA, and the original soundtrack of the film released this time includes 17 of them.

In its first week of release, the soundtrack topped the Billboard album charts at No. 3, selling 220,000 copies.

Although considered as great as Elvis Presley and The Beatles, ABBA's album that year never made it into the top 10 of the Billboard North American albums chart.

However, with the popularity of the "Mamma Mia" movie and soundtrack, the popularity of the band ABBA has risen again.

Many predict that with the blessing of the movie's popularity, the soundtrack of "Mamma Mia" will inevitably sit on the top of the Billboard album sales chart next week.

In the past decade, there have been eight soundtracks that have been the top performers for Billboard's album sales in North America, with the most brilliant being the "Titanic" soundtrack, which led the album charts for 16 weeks.

James Cameron disliked it so badly, and even clashed with Twentieth Century Fox several times, and wanted to replace "My Heart Eternal", which created the craziest soundtrack sales figures in the history of cinema.

The success of "Mamma Mia" also created a good start for Relativity Entertainment in the genre of song and dance films.

The music team of the crew is a relatively mature group, and after several interviews with George Clint, most of them agreed to join the crew of "Hannah Montana" and start a new creation.

"Hannah Montana" also has a successful music team.

Success always brings more attention and attracts more people's attention.

A director and producer took the project to the Relativity Building, and after a meeting with George Clint, the project appeared in Ronan's office.

"John Waters reached out to me this morning. George Clint recounted: "Then I met him in the office, and John Waters was planning a revival of his 1988 film, Hairspray. ”

Ronan flipped through the project proposal, presumably because of the success of "Mamma Mia", which brought John Waters to the door.

The director he was not familiar with, but George Clint specifically appended John Waters' details to the proposal.

John Waters rose to fame with a series of cult films shot in the '70s, the most striking feature of his films was that they were very flavorful.

"The Pope of Trash", "The King of Disgust", and "The Father of Bad Taste" are the best interpretations of John Waters' film style.

The 1988 musical film "Hairspray" was John Waters' first film to be accepted by the mainstream film industry.

However, these introductions, in Ronan's eyes, are not as intuitive as a movie written and directed by John Waters.

The name of this film is called "Pink Holes"!

The 300-pound saintess, it is estimated that many people are impressed, according to the introduction in the information, the saint is played by a male actor......

Ronan looked up at the other side and asked, "John Waters is selling musical and dance films?"

Could it be that the actor sings and eats at the same time......

George Clint said, "John Waters rarely makes that kind of hard-hitting movie anymore. In John Waters' view, his 1988 "Hairspray" is actually looking at the desegregation movement through the eyes of a white man, that is, the eyes of an obese teenage protagonist. ”

Ronan asked, "That is, the heroine is a fat girl?"

"Yes. George Clint further said, "In 2002, John Waters teamed up with Broadway to adapt Hairspray into a revue called Hairspray: The Musical Comedy. ”

"Hairspray: Musical Comedy was a big winner at the Tony Awards, nominating for 13 Tony Awards and winning eight of them, including Best Musical Comedy, Best Actor and Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Original Soundtrack, and more. ”

Ronan was surprised: "The musical is popular?"

He is currently performing at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway. George Clint apparently had a preliminary understanding: "I specifically asked my Broadway collaborators and friends who work in the theater industry, and they rated 'Hairspray: The Musical Comedy' quite highly, saying that it was easy to understand, with cute characters, popular themes, and won the love of audiences of almost all ages." ”

Ronan flipped through the project plan, tapped his fingers lightly, and said, "This is essentially a Cinderella story, a dancing girl who is short and fat but dreams of becoming a star......"

George Clint added at this time: "By the way, John Waters mentioned to me that John Travolta had promised him a role in it. Well...... is the mother of the heroine. ”

"Reverse skewering?" Ronan couldn't help laughing, "Interesting." ”

John Travolta's acting talent in musical and dance films is undeniable, as evidenced by many previous films.

But this project called "Hairspray", Ronan has no impression and can't remember it at all.

The director of "Pink Pyremis" shoots a song and dance film?

At first glance it looks quite unreliable.

However, the adaptation of the musical by John Waters, which John Waters was deeply involved in, was a huge success on Broadway.

Ronan thought for a few minutes and said to George Clint, "I'm going to San Francisco tomorrow to meet Steve Jobs, you make an appointment with John Waters, and I want to meet him when I get back." ”