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August 19, 2008
Oh Mamma!!!
“You Can Dance, You Can Jive, Having The Time of Your Life...”
STARTING AUGUST 29, SELECT THEATERS NATIONWIDE
TO SHOW SPECIAL SING-ALONG EDITION
OF SMASH HIT MAMMA MIA!
Universal City, CA, August 19, 2008 — Due to overwhelming demand, Universal Pictures announced today that it will release a special sing-along edition of its worldwide smash hit movie musical Mamma Mia! in selected theaters nationwide, starting Friday, August 29, for a limited time. The movie phenomenon, based on the songs of iconic supergroup ABBA, has earned more than $320 million at the worldwide box office.
Audiences at these specially selected theaters are invited to bring friends and family to experience the smash hit movie musical in a whole new way by singing along to the songs they love. Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition will feature the lyrics to every musical number on the screen, and you are invited to sing and dance along. Join in on all your familiar favorites like “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S.,” “Money, Money, Money,” “Take a Chance on Me,” “Lay All Your Love on Me,” “Voulez-Vous” and all the others from the film!
Details on theaters and showtimes that will feature Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition will be coming soon. For the latest news, please visit www.mammamiamovie.com or your favorite ticketing site to make a destination visit to join in on the celebration.
Since its release in early July, Mamma Mia! has turned into an unprecedented worldwide phenomenon, breaking records across the world as the biggest opening of a musical in history. It has already become the fastest movie musical to reach $100 million at the U.S. box office and is now the highest grossing film of 2008 in the U.K., Austria, Greece, Hungary, Norway and Sweden. Within the next two weeks, the Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan-led musical romantic comedy will become the most successful film Universal has ever released in the U.K. The film still has more than 35 territories in which to open.
The music of the film has proved as much a draw as the film itself and brought resurgence to the world’s favorite ABBA songs. Currently, the Mamma Mia! soundtrack is the No. 1 album on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. It is also the No. 1 album overall in Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Finland and Hungary.
Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition arrives in select theaters across the country on August 29, 2008.
Posted by dpoland at August 19, 2008 03:24 PM
Comments
Do people really need the lyrics to the songs posted? Even if you don't know them going in, Abba songs are pretty easy to pick up right away.
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at August 19, 2008 05:28 PM
This new version would be the perfect time for "The Name of the Game," which was removed from the release cut at the last minute, to be reinstated, but I get the feeling that Universal won't.
Posted by: aframe at August 19, 2008 06:00 PM
320 million world wide? Momma Mia!!!
Posted by: tjfar67 at August 19, 2008 06:23 PM
so, MAMMA MIA reached $100 million faster than any other movie musical? maybe it's because it was on 3,000 plus screens. PHANTOM and the others opened on a few hundred screens. Hollywood tried the slow approach to it and DREAMGIRLS as well. Even when SWEENEY went wide, it was only on 1,500 screens tops.
Posted by: seattlemoviegoer at August 20, 2008 12:11 PM
Mamma Mia! soundtrack has been #1 here for five weeks (more than Coldplay) and the movie is still #3 at the box office with just under $1.5mil despite being out for six weeks. Grossed more in it's sixth week than the debuts of Star Wars: The Clone Wars did in it's opening week. I'm not sure which is more frightening.
But the singalong thing didn't really work for Hairspray so I'm not sure it'll do much for Mamma Mia! Not that it really needs the help.
It's really quite stunning.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at August 20, 2008 08:23 PM
ABBA finally have a #1 album in the States even if it's a soundtrack. Frightening? Not so.
Posted by: Chucky in Jersey at August 21, 2008 04:12 PM
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