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Blame it on Flashdance," averred Time magazine's film critic, Jay Cocks, with regard to the seeming infiltration of the video clip trend into movie packaging. [134] "The Flashdance phenomenon was a confluence of good commercial instincts and some savvy guesswork, and now that Hollywood has found a new formula, indeed helped create one, it will ...
Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.
"Maniac" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance that was written by Dennis Matkosky and its performer, Michael Sembello. The original idea for the song came to Matkosky while watching a news report on a serial killer, which inspired gruesome lyrics that he and Sembello expanded upon after finding a 1980 horror film with the same name.
Lyne had to fight for what became the now-classic water-soaked stage dance; the filmmaker was forced to demonstrate the sequence on a soundstage in front of “about 30 executives” in bleachers.
Jeffrey Hornaday is an American choreographer and film director. [1] [2] He has choreographed films such as Flashdance, Dick Tracy, Captain Eo and A Chorus Line.[3] [4]Hornaday was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for his direction of the 2011 Disney Channel original movie Geek Charming.
Paramount+ is going to the movies… to get ideas for new TV shows. The streamer is developing five TV series adaptations of classic films from its library: Fatal Attraction, Flashdance, Love ...
Beals was a relatively unknown actress before Flashdance, and throughout the film, close-ups purported to be Beals' body were actually of Jahan. However, Jahan's contribution was not listed in the film's opening or ending credits, and because the film was a hit by the time the truth of her participation became known, viewers felt deceived to ...
What a Feelin ' was released by Geffen Records on November 2, 1983, [5] without "The Dream", which was to be on the D.C. Cab soundtrack album by MCA Records.Since the film was originally scheduled to be released in April 1984, the soundtrack was going to hit store shelves in February. [6]