Halliwell racks up songs on
``Therapy'' soundtrack
Thursday May 18 3:19 AM ET By Adam Dawtrey
Source: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000518/en/film-canneshalliwell_1.html
CANNES (Variety) - The next album
by former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell
will
be linked to her new movie, ``Therapy,'' and will include ``two
or
three''
singles written for the film.
Halliwell was working on her second
solo album when she read the
``Therapy'' script, but the two are now being developed side by
side.
``I'm going to make sure my album
works with this film,'' Halliwell
told
Daily Variety.
Director David Green is planning to shoot extra days specifically
for
the
videos that will accompany the release of the singles.
Halliwell confirmed that the songs
are written, though she would not
disclose titles. She also said there would be a separate soundtrack
album,
which she will produce, with a range of songs that could stretch
from
rave
to Patsy Cline.
``Therapy'' is a $15 million romantic
comedy in which Halliwell will
play
a young London woman whose tempestuous love life and confrontations
at
work drive her to seek therapy. Things get complicated when she
falls
for
her therapist.
``The star of this show is the
script,'' Halliwell said. ``This was a
story that just leaped off the page for me. I'm a very expressive
person,
and if I believe in something, whether it's writing songs or falling
in
love with a script, then I'm going to give 150% to it.''
The picture will include ``Alfie''-style
speeches to camera by
Halliwell's
character. It's a big challenge for someone in her first true
acting
role
(in ``Spice World'' she played herself).
``I want to be the best that I
can,'' Halliwell said. ''Maybe I'm not
going to be Meryl Streep, but I think I can do something honest
and
that
the audience will leave the cinema feeling filled up.''
Casting will mostly be British,
but Green said the central character's
American boss provides an opportunity for a high-profile star
cameo.
``We're not out to make a British
film that might work in Europe, but
an
international film that will work everywhere,'' Green said.
It's produced by Green's company,
September Films, and the financing is
being put together by IAC Films. Halliwell has been tub-thumping
the
project to distributors in Cannes.
Halliwell proved her critics wrong
with the huge U.K. success of her
first
solo album, ``Geri.'' It spawned four No. 1 singles and also traveled
strongly through much of the world.
The American performance was less
dramatic, but Halliwell hinted that
she
has a major new U.S. deal in the works for her second album, which
will
give it a much bigger Stateside push.
Reuters/Variety
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A spokesman for Geri explained
she would play a girl called Amy in
'Tragedy', who seeks help to deal with her turbulent love life,
but
then
becomes entangled with her therapist. He indicated that the film
was a
'sort of romantic comedy' and was still in its development stage.
He
added: 'Geri, as you can imagine, is very excited by the role.'
From: http://www.dotmusic.co.uk/news/May2000/news13928.asp
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It is a gamble for the film's
British makers, who will no doubt get the
jitters when they remember the result of her previous film foray
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Spice
World. Geri will formally announce her plans at the Cannes Film
Festival
where fellow pop stars the All Saints have been basking in some
unusually
glowing reviews of their film Honest.
Halliwell would be involved in
the "creative process" herself, she
said,
adding that she could not say at this stage exactly what form
that
would
take.
From: http://www.itn.co.uk/Entertainment/ents20000516/051608.htm
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Her publicist Simon Jones told
BBC News Online: "I can confirm that
Geri
will be appearing in a new film called Therapy. "It is being
made by
September Films and will be directed by David Green, who worked
on
Buster
and Wings of Apache."
He said the singer would play
Amy, a girl who seeks help to deal with
her
turbulent love life, then discovers her therapist has fallen in
love
with
her. Jones, who described Therapy as "a sort of romantic
comedy", said
the
film was still in its development stage and no-one else had been
cast.
He
added: "Geri, as you can imagine, is very excited by the
role and will
be
in Cannes later this week meeting distributors."
For the past two months, Halliwell
has been in Los Angeles where she
has
been laying down tracks for her second album.
From:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_750000/750556.stm
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Geri, 27, describes the film as
"'Working Girl' meets 'Sex In The City'
meets 'Alfie'".