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Gadzooks

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gadzooks a private message Print Post    
Does anyone know when the soundtrack for the movie is being released? I heard the song Bounce and it's really a great dance tune for the summer. I tried to download it but all I ever get a short clips.

Does anyone intend to see the movie?

Sadiesmom

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 12:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
Don't hold your breath. Since They are not investing in a trailer for the theater or any of the movie props. I believe they are going to bury this movie as fast as possible. You can get the DVD at the end of the summer.

Muse

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 12:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Muse a private message Print Post    
No soundtrack. Apparently they felt that with CDs being released by Justin, Clay, and Ruben (along with Kelly's still selling fairly well), they didn't want to have a soundtrack to compete. I'm really disappointed, since I was more interested in the soundtrack than the actual movie.

Anyway, I hear that they were going to release the DVD within months, but then pushed it back so more movie theaters would show the movie (they were hesitant to do so when a DVD was slated to come out so soon).

Hotlantan

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hotlantan a private message Print Post    
Actually, FOX wanted the DVD release to be *SIX WEEKS* after the movie comes out in theaters! Theater owners realized that they were only being used to advertise a project that otherwise would have gone straight to video and balked.

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/35919.htm

Twice delayed, battles with theater owners, no soundtrack for a musical, no trailer, no real promotion, no connection in the movie to AI, completely unknown actors besides J&K, all advance screenings cancelled, estimated number of movie screens dropping daily, Justin's album tanking, the other reality beach movie "The Real Cancun" went literally DOA... I don't like being negative, but things do not look good.

Jbean

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
call me obsessive, but i am gonna go see it. lol. i need a good justin and kelly fix, and i have a friend excited about going too. (sad, i know)

Tabbyking

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 10:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
my son works at the cinema here in town and they preview movies a day or so before they open to make sure the film works okay. the employees can attend the previews. my son is at an 11:00 pm showing of the kelly and justin movie right now. i'll let you know what he says. i was surprised that he wanted to see it--he didn't follow either AI series at all and teases his sister mercilessly about her clay-crush, but he said he is 'going to see it to laugh' at it. typical 17-year-old boy! he also saw the 'cancun' movie just to laugh at it...i think he really did enjoy it, though!
for me, this sounds like an annette/frankie movie, and though i don't think i will pay for it, i will probably rent it once it's out on video just for the '60's throwback'!

Hermione69

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 2:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I want to see it, too!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
well, my son went into the viewing of 'emma and alex' or whatever it's called. he spent less than half an hour at that one, proclaiming it "BORING!" then he and his friend went into the viewing theater for justin and kelly and said they were terrible actors. ("it sounded like they were reading their lines".) he said it was a cross between a poorly done "grease" and a party. he said, and i quote, "If i ever had to pay to see this crap, I would have to kill myself first." which doesn't make sense grammatically, but got his point across to me!
now, if it were clayben, i would watch drivel just to see them! so if you love kelly and justin, you may still enjoy this. i just don't care for either of them enough to pay to see it.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Here's an article on Kelly from my paper:

She Enjoys the Moment

Wednesday, June 18, 2003
She enjoys the moment
Kelly Clarkson feasts on the fruits of winning 'American Idol': the chance to work, work, work.


KELLY CLARKSON: Her movie, “From Justin to Kelly,” took less than six weeks to make.


By BARRY KOLTNOW
The Orange County Register


Kelly Clarkson hasn't stopped moving since she won the original "American Idol" crown a little more than nine months ago.

In that time, she has managed to squeeze in enough studio time to record a No. 1 single ("A Moment Like This") and a No. 1 album ("Thankful"), embark on a whirlwind 40-day concert tour with her fellow "American Idol" contestants and, of course, make a movie.

When she wasn't recording, performing and filming, she was answering endless questions from a parade of inquiring journalists, who can't seem to get enough of her rags-to-riches success story.

And next year looks no easier, with promotional tours booked on at least four continents.

So, a half-hour interview at a fancy hotel in Los Angeles is not really a break from the nonstop schedule. It's more of the same.

Kelly: The Second Season
Reuben or Clay? - "I was rooting for Reuben because I'm a sucker for a soulful voice."
Her advice - "I told both of them that it didn't matter who wins. It's not about winning; it's about getting your foot in the door and you do that by being seen on a weekly TV show. Look at Justin. He didn't win and he's had the same career as me."
Comparisons - "They had it much easier than us. We were the guinea pigs. We had no clue how big the audience was or what we were getting into. We lived in a bubble. They knew everything. They knew the prize. We knew none of that." ,
Why so popular? - "I think the show struck a chord with the audience because America craves seeing real raw talent in a setting that doesn't seem manufactured. I also think people love the voting aspect." ,
Simon: Friend or foe? - "Simon (judge Simon Cowell) never said anything bad to me. But I think he wanted Christina (Christian) to win. She's beautiful and he was in love with Christina."


To fit in everything she needs to say in a short amount of time, the energetic singer speaks in machine-gun bursts without so much as taking a breath. And she does it with enthusiasm and genuine warmth. There are no hints of fatigue or boredom.

Finally, after 20 minutes of nonstop talking, she burps.

It is unintentional, having to do with taking in too much air as she spoke.

But for a moment, she actually stops talking. It may be the first time she has stopped talking since her television triumph on Sept. 4, 2002.

The involuntary burp surprises her. Her face turns beet-red for an instant. She apologizes profusely, and blames it on the tuna salad sandwich she devoured hastily between interviews on a day she is promoting her new film, a kid-friendly movie musical that also stars her curly-hair friend and "American Idol" runner-up Justin Guarini.

"From Justin to Kelly," which opens Friday, was put together in less than six weeks and stars Clarkson as a Texas girl dragged to Miami Beach by her girlfriends for the annual rite of spring break. Guarini heads south from Pennsylvania with a group of college friends.

Boy meets girl, and singing ensues.

The 21-year-old Clarkson, whose second single, "Miss Independent," is climbing the charts, said she doesn't mind the torrid pace of her life since winning the "American Idol" title.

"This is my time to work," she explained. "The time to play will come later."

If she somehow has figured a way to carve out enough time for a personal life, and then be clever enough to keep it hidden from prying eyes, she isn't talking.

"If I really were dating someone, do you honestly think I would tell you or any other member of the media?" she asked with a puzzled look. "I can't tell you how many interviewers try to get me into a little girl chat about boys in front of a TV camera.

"Do they really think I don't know that millions of people are watching?"

CALIFORNIA OR BUST

Clarkson was born and raised in the small Texas town of Burleson, and her parents divorced when she was 6. Although her mother remarried a few years later, the family never had a lot of money, and the future singer worked a series of low-paying jobs through high school.

She always liked to sing but never realized her voice was any better than anyone else's in Burleson until a choir teacher overheard her singing along with the radio in a school hallway.

It was just before she started seventh grade, and it changed her life. She joined the choir and never stopped singing, even joining a rock band at one point.

"Singing gave me confidence," she said. "Friends at school were nervous because they didn't know what they wanted to do with the rest of their lives, but I had a peaceful feeling inside because I knew.

"I knew that I would make a living at this since a seventh-grade assembly, when I was about to go out and sing a Mariah Carey song in front of the whole town. Other singers were throwing up out of fear but I wasn't afraid at all. Singing just seemed a natural thing.

"Of course, I assumed I was going to make my living in musical theater. I never dreamed about this."

College was out of the question because of financial constraints, so she worked around town for a year after high school and then made her move.

She took off for Los Angeles, and shared a tiny apartment with a girl she had met at the Six Flags amusement park. Clarkson spent her days sending out audition tapes and performing live for anyone who would listen.

"When I did get someone interested from my audition tape, they would always look disappointed when I walked in. They thought I was someone different by my singing, which I like to call soulful.

Most of those interviews started and ended with, "Sorry, we didn't think you were white" or "Your accent is too thick."

After five months, she had earned enough money from backup vocal jobs to afford a bigger apartment. After she and her girlfriend moved all their belongings into the new place, they went out to dinner to celebrate. While they were gone, the apartment building burned down.

She spent that night in a gymnasium set up as a shelter and then left for Texas the next day.

"That's been the story of my life," she said with a pained smile. "I've had the worst luck. 'American Idol' is the only good luck I've ever had."

Upon arriving home, Kelly's best friend, Jessica, told her about a singing competition called "American Idol." Footnote: The singer has since rewarded her friend with a Corvette.

Clarkson performed at two auditions for a couple of producers.

"I still didn't know it was for a TV show," she said. "It wasn't until the third audition, in front of Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and that British guy that I thought this might be something important.

"But I still worried about credibility. I've never been very naive. I grew up fast and I always question new things. I didn't want to be part of a show like 'Pop Stars' or to be a flash in the pan. I want more than my 15 minutes. I want a long, full career and I needed to know that this show could do that for me."

The show turned out to be exactly what she needed, and she said the 10-week competition went by in a blur. She swears that she has almost no recollection of the moment she was crowned.

"Believe me, there was nothing going through my head at the time. I assumed Justin would win because he's talented, cute and had a huge following that came to every show. Everybody on the show thought Justin would win."

Clarkson said she believes she would have gotten her foot in the door regardless of the TV show, but it was so much easier with "American Idol."

"It was a smarter way to go," she said. "I learned so much from doing the show, including how to deal with the media, how to handle photo shoots and how to perform in front of millions of people. It was a way to audition for the industry on a massive scale."

As for the fame and its accompanying media scrutiny, Clarkson said she goes with the flow.

"I don't mind the tabloids and the photographers," she said. "I don't even mind when they take my picture without my makeup. I always go out without makeup, unless it's a special event. That's the way I've always been. I have nothing to hide.

"People assume that an experience like this has to change you, but it hasn't changed me at all. I'm the same person I was in Texas when I first worked my butt off to get what I wanted. I'm still working my butt off, only I've got a better job now."


CONTACT US: (714) 796-5051, Ext. 1110, or bkoltnow@ocregister.com

Jbean

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
great article, sea, thanks for sharing it with us.

Jbean

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 7:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
i saw the movie tonight, and thought it was cute. a little bit cheesy, as is to be expected, but mainly the dance scenes. i thought both of them were ok actors. then again, i am a huge kelly fan, and a justin fan. my friend thought it was cute, too.

i would say it really is like grease on the beach. i am really disappointed that there won't be a soundtrack, there were some good songs on there. i liked all of the ones that j & k did, some of the co-star songs were iffy.

jmho. i think if you like kelly and justin that you would probably enjoy the movie.

humorous side note: my friend and i were the only women our ages there that were not there with their kids. lol


Tabbyking

Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
my son told me our cinema had two theaters running 'hulk' yesterday and it sold out completely each seating. 'from justin to kelly' sold only 100 tickets all day; which meant, on average, less than 15 people each of the 7 times it was shown. the only show that faired worse than that was 'matrix2' which has been here for 4 weeks and there is no one left to see it who cares to see it! he said they have to start the projector each scheduled time, and only one time was there anyone in the audience--2 people!

Luvmom

Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
I went to see this yesterday with my girls and we loved it.Yes,it was a little cheesy,like jbean said,but that really didn't matter to my girls..........8-)They fell in love with Justin all over again.For first time acting,it wasn't bad at all.Sadly there was only 9 of us in the theater.It isn't doing that well.

Hotlantan

Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hotlantan a private message Print Post    
Weekend Box Office estimates:
11. From Justin to Kelly (Fox)
$2,875,000
2,001 theaters
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2003&wknd=25&p=.htm

Monkeyboy

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 5:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Monkeyboy a private message Print Post    
How embarrassing! Im guessing there wont be a "From Clay to Ruben" anytime soon. :)

Tabbyking

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 6:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
but i'd go to see that one, and i wouldn't go see justin and kelly!

Muse

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 10:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Muse a private message Print Post    
I feel sorry for Justin and Kelly, but I'm kind of happy that this might prevent a Clay/Ruben movie from being made. Because as much as I adore Clay and like Ruben (and would no doubt enjoy a movie with the two of them), I don't think doing a movie would be a smart career movie for either one of them.

Tabbyking

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
i don't think it would be a good career move, either. they don't seem 'teenybopperish' like justin and kelly. (just the way justin and kelly were marketed). i think clay and ruben will have 'fun', but be presented in a more 'sophisticated' light. one can only hope!

Seamonkey

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I agree.. it is six weeks when they aren't working on their music and Clay and Ruben have a much shorter timeframe to put out their first full cds.

Hotlantan

Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hotlantan a private message Print Post    
I wonder if the little girl told Justin his movie and/or album sucked? :)

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/states/texas/arlington/6209334.htm

The runner-up on the original American Idol competition was ticketed by Grand Prairie police Saturday afternoon after witnesses said he almost ran over a young girl with a personal watercraft at Joe Pool Lake.

Justin Guarini was with contest winner Kelly Clarkson, of Burleson, when he was cited for unsafe boat operation at Loyd Park on the west side of the lake about 7 p.m., said Sgt. Chris Chopin, lake patrol supervisor.

Chopin said that Guarini and Clarkson "didn't understand what the laws were."

The offense is punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 and a maximum 180 days in jail, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Web site.

Calls to publicists representing Guarini and Clarkson were not returned.

Clarkson, 21, and Guarini, 24, became celebrities last summer when they were finalists on the Fox television show, a reality series that aims to discover pop stars. Viewers voted Clarkson the winner, and she received a $1 million record deal.

The two are starring in the recently released romantic comedy From Justin to Kelly.

Clint Heizer, the father of the 5-year-old girl who Guarini allegedly almost hit, said Clarkson and Guarini had been taking turns riding the watercraft with about five friends for most of the day Saturday.

A former fan of the show, Heizer said he didn't realize who Guarini and Clarkson were until Guarini ran the watercraft up on shore a good distance and stopped a few feet short of his daughter, Allison.

"I was in Justin's face talking to him about what he had just done, and that's when I realized who he was," said Heizer, a city marshal in North Richland Hills.

Heizer said Guarini rolled off the moving watercraft before it stopped and ran away laughing.

"If they were just apologetic, everything would have been all right," said Heizer, who lives in Fort Worth.

Heizer said Guarini and Clarkson were rude and confrontational to his party and the police and Coast Guard auxillarymen who arrived on the scene.

Chopin was more judicious.

"I wouldn't say confrontational," he said. "But they were inquisitive, to say the least, about why we were talking to them."

The singers and their friends were kicked out of Loyd Park after the incident, but not before they signed autographs on the way out, police and a park official said.

Serate

Monday, July 14, 2003 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
messed up. don't know how to delete so erased. sorry.

Beachcomber88

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber88 a private message Print Post    
Simply....AWFUL! Didn't EW give this pathetic bomb an "F"? At least Kelly has a legit music career. But it looks like Justin isn't the teenage heartthrob anymore that the producers were banking on.

Brenda1966

Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 1:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
Saw this today in my IMDB daily email:

TRULY TRIVIAL

This is the IMDb's #1 worst-rated movie.

See the answer:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0339034

One of my favorite movies as a kid was Roller Boogie w/ Linda Blair. I have a feeling this movie is this generation's Roller Boogie. :)

Eliz87

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eliz87 a private message Print Post    
I tried to rent this at my video store and they said that the order had been cancelled. I haven't bothered to visit a Blockbuster to see whether they have it or not. Does anyone know whether the video release was cancelled?

Luvmom

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
No it wasn't,at least not around here.We've rented it about 9 times now.I'm buying it for my daughter for christmas.

Rslover

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rslover a private message Print Post    
I saw it at Blockbuster. Think I'll look for it in the library!!!

Coolbeans
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04-05-2004

Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Coolbeans a private message Print Post    
You can buy the dvd for $5.50 at Walmart.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
and when you are walking away and feel a 5.00 bill hit your back ..that's your change!

lol...I actally sat thru this movie with my son!

Kittystj
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08-10-2001

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kittystj a private message Print Post    
Don't blame Justin and Kelly for the movie. They could only play what they were given. Give the kids a break.