The wig finances alone.
Photograph: Sarah Shatz/Focus Options
It’s not the vacation season except we’ve got some sort of film musical gracing our screens. Final 12 months, we had Timothée Chalamet’s tackle Bob Dylan in A Full Unknown; in 2023, we had Chalamet as Wonka; in 2022, we had the Whitney Houston music biopic; in 2021, we had West Facet Story — you get the gist. This 12 months, we’ve got one thing we’ve by no means seen earlier than: not an adaptation of preexisting IP (like Wonka or West Facet Story) nor a musician biopic (like A Full Unknown or I Wanna Dance With Anyone), however a feature-film adaptation of a documentary a few husband-and-wife duo named Lightning and Thunder who sang Neil Diamond songs in Milwaukee. Each movies are referred to as Music Sung Blue, however solely considered one of them is directed by Dolemite Is My Title and Hustle & Circulate filmmaker Craig Brewer starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in elaborate wigs and much more elaborate Wisconsin accents. Jackman’s musical bona fides are well-established by now, and Hudson had considered one of this 12 months’s most unexpectedly stable debut albums. Collectively, they could possibly be unstoppable.
This Christmas, dream large.
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star in SONG SUNG BLUE, that includes the long-lasting songs of Neil Diamond. Solely in theaters December 25. pic.twitter.com/N9gZiRbyhg
— Music Sung Blue (@songsungbluemov) September 9, 2025
It’s not a lot that Jackman is enjoying a “Neil Diamond impersonator,” Hudson’s character reminds him, however the truth is a “Neil Diamond interpreter.” That mentioned, it principally looks like he’s “decoding” beloved Diamond songs by singing them kind of precisely how they sound when Diamond sings them. It’s straightforward to snort a few feel-good film musical starring Jackman now, however lest we neglect how a lot cash The Best Showman made a number of Christmases in the past. This factor — for those who can keep in mind the order the phrases of the title go in — could possibly be large. Michael Imperioli, Jim Belushi, and King Princess (congrats on the brand new album) fill out the supporting forged. If there’s anybody to put bets on in terms of “Wisconsin accent accuracy,” my cash’s on Belushi.
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