and following a 1952-54 stint in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he was hired as an assistant film editor on Billy Wilder’s The Spirit of St. Louis (1957). As MPEG president, Burnett ...
to become the top-grossing film based on a Broadway musical ... Of course, not all sequels are guaranteed to become box-office successes. Grease is here, but its 1982 sequel, Grease 2, which ...
So Grease 2 was released with a new lead cast, including Michelle Pfeiffer - in one of her first film roles. Savaged by critics and shunned by audiences, the result was a box office disaster, scraping ...
The other films in its league are all considered to be huge successes, and thus, “Wicked” is as well, by virtue of its company. Easier still is the non-roadshow “Grease” in 1978.