Released on June 16, 1978, the film was successful both critically and financially at the box office, becoming the highest grossing film of the year. In the United States, the film still remains the highest-grossing movie musical of all time.Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-best selling album of the year in the U.S., behind the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, another film starring Travolta. The soundtrack is also the second best-selling album ever released and top-selling soundtrack in history. The film was nominated for one Academy Award for Best Original Song. A sequel, Grease 2, was released in 1982, featuring few cast members reprising their roles.
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1978 film Grease. It was originally released by RSO Records. The song "You're the One That I Want" was a US and UK #1 for stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It is the second best-selling album ever released and top-selling soundtrack in history with 44.7 million copies sold worldwide.
The soundtrack was released in April 14, 1978, two months ahead of the film's release. The cover gives credit to, and prominently features, the two stars of the film—John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John—although they only appear on seven of the 24 tracks. The remainder of the album is sung by various cast members and Sha Na Na, a group who performed many of the 1950s numbers in the film. The title track was recorded by Frankie Valli, who had no other connection with the film.
Grease was first performed in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines Chicago club, located in an old trolley barn (now the site of a hospital parking garage). From there, it has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has been diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués and more generic. At the time that it closed in 1980, Grease's 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although it was surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later. It went on to become a West End hit, a hugely successful film, two popular Broadway revivals in 1994 and 2007, and a staple of regional theatre, summer stock, community theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups. It remains Broadway's 15th longest-running show. Aspects of the stage play would be incorporated into the production's 2016 live TV musical.
Film is a 1965 film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days. A second draft was produced by 22 May and a forty-leaf shooting script followed thereafter. It was filmed in New York in July 1964.
Beckett’s original choice for the lead – referred to only as “O” – was Charlie Chaplin, but his script never reached him. Both Beckett and the director Alan Schneider were interested in Zero Mostel and Jack MacGowran. However, the former was unavailable and the latter, who accepted at first, became unavailable due to his role in a "Hollywood epic." Beckett then suggested Buster Keaton. Schneider promptly flew to Los Angeles and persuaded Keaton to accept the role along with "a handsome fee for less than three weeks' work."James Karen, who was to have a small part in the film, also encouraged Schneider to contact Keaton.
The filmed version differs from Beckett's original script but with his approval since he was on set all the time, this being his only visit to the United States. The script printed in Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett (Faber and Faber, 1984) states:
In fluid dynamics, lubrication theory describes the flow of fluids (liquids or gases) in a geometry in which one dimension is significantly smaller than the others. An example is the flow above air hockey tables, where the thickness of the air layer beneath the puck is much smaller than the dimensions of the puck itself.
Internal flows are those where the fluid is fully bounded. Internal flow lubrication theory has many industrial applications because of its role in the design of fluid bearings. Here a key goal of lubrication theory is to determine the pressure distribution in the fluid volume, and hence the forces on the bearing components. The working fluid in this case is often termed a lubricant.
Free film lubrication theory is concerned with the case in which one of the surfaces containing the fluid is a free surface. In that case the position of the free surface is itself unknown, and one goal of lubrication theory is then to determine this. Surface tension may then be significant, or even dominant. Issues of wetting and dewetting then arise. For very thin films (thickness less than one micrometre), additional intermolecular forces, such as Van der Waals forces or disjoining forces, may become significant.
The movie version of the Broadway hit Wicked is busting box-office records left and right, recently dethroning Grease as the highest-grossing film adaptation of a Broadway show in history ... on film.
They follow it up with the hyper-comic-violence of Home Alone (1990), a family film that has aged badly in terms of the baddies’ injuries and the terrible parenting ...ITV’s big-ticket film for the day after the big event is Grease (3pm).
Whether it’s failed follow-ups to cult classics such as “Grease 2,” or a film trying to hide its musical identity such as “Mean Girls,” movie-musical adaptations can be rather touch-and-go with larger audiences.
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Not accounting for inflation, “Wicked” is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over “Grease.” (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 million.).
AP FilmWriter... Not accounting for inflation, “Wicked” is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over “Grease.” (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 million.).
Not accounting for inflation, “Wicked” is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over “Grease.” (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 million.).
Not accounting for inflation, “Wicked” is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over “Grease.” (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 million.).
Not accounting for inflation, 'Wicked' is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over 'Grease.' (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 ...
Not accounting for inflation, “Wicked” is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over “Grease.” (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 million.).
Not accounting for inflation, “Wicked” is now the highest grossing Broadwayadaptation over “Grease.” (That 1978 film grossed $190 million, but factoring in inflation would put it past $900 million.) 3.
This has pushed the film past the lifetime gross of the iconic 1978 musical 'Grease'.The projections indicate that by Sunday, the film will reach nearly $263 million domestically.115715311Over the ...
Chatanooga Times Free Press
02 Dec 2024
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02 Dec 2024