Dreamgirls - due for a late 2006 release

Dreamgirls - due for a late 2006 release

Just news that work is due to start on production of a cinema version of Dreamgirls which is due for release in December 2006. Appears its quite a major project as the line up includes Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Danny Glover and Eddie Murphy shows.

Its a film adaption of the 80s musical which told the story of the rise of a trio of women: Effie (Hudson), Deena (BeyoncÃÆ’©) and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), who have formed a promising girl group called The Dreamettes in the 1960s At a talent competition, they are discovered by an ambitious manager named Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Foxx), who offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the back-up singers for headliner James "Thunder" Early (Murphy).

Website http://www.dreamgirls.dreamworks.com/Next year, 25 years after kicking ass on Broadway, the Tony-Award winning musical DREAMGIRLS will be coming to the big screen starring Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Beyonce Knowles and a number of newly added cast members, including Jennifer Hudson, a former "American Idol" finalist, and Keith Robinson, set to play the composer role of C.C., a role which had previously been rumored to be given to Usher.

The film is set to begin production in January of 2006, directed and written by Bill Condon of KINSEY and GODS AND MONSTERS fame and will be about: Set in the turbulent late 1960s and early '70s, DREAMGIRLS follows the rise of a trio of women: Effie (Hudson), Deena (BeyoncÃÆ’©) and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), who have formed a promising girl group called The Dreamettes. At a talent competition, they are discovered by an ambitious manager named Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Foxx), who offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the back-up singers for headliner James "Thunder" Early (Murphy).

Curtis gradually takes control of the girls' look and sound, eventually giving them their own shot in the spotlight as The Dreams. That spotlight, however, begins to narrow in on Deena, finally pushing the less attractive Effie out altogether. Though the Dreams become a cross-over phenomenon, they soon realize that the cost of fame and fortune may be higher than they ever imagined.