Tag: Cynthia Erivo

Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo officially ends movie’s controversial audience singing debate

Cynthia Erivo has given the official verdict about singing at the movies.

So many moviegoers have been flocking to see Wicked, including folks like Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins, who admitted to singing along in the theatre.

Unfortunately, not everyone has been belting out notes. Some people, like For The Win’s Cory Woodroof, are not huge fans of others singing mid-movie. (Cory recently begged watchers not to sing along — “for the love of Oz.”) However, there’s been a development. One of the film’s biggest stars, Cynthia Erivo, officially settled the controversial singing debate during an appearance on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

How does she feel about the singing? “Good!” Cynthia happily told the TODAY show crew. “I’m okay with it. We spent this long singing it ourselves. It’s time for everyone else to join in. It’s wonderful.” BOOM. CASE CLOSED. Carry on, everyone. (See the 1:07 mark in the clip below.)

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Replacement names ‘Needle in a Timestack’ producers should use immediately

The movie looks incredible. The title…not so much.

Making a movie penned by 12 Years A Slave writer John Ridley and staring Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Orlando Bloom and Freida Pinto can certainly get expensive. Maybe it even leads to budget cuts in other areas. Like, say, marketing or audience testing. Sometimes, that means you just have to release your art into the world and be ready to accept whatever public interpretation follows.

Surely that’s the case with Lionsgate’s latest project as everything about it looks epic until you get to the title reveal.  If you don’t know where this is going—or if you’ve already forgotten the headline to this post—do yourself a favor, watch the trailer and experience what the Internet has been collectively losing its mind over.

Needle in a Timestack.

That’s it. That’s the name.

After two minutes of watching Leslie Odom Jr. live his best life, lose it, then try to piece it back together, that’s all anyone who’s watched the trailer can seem to talk about.

To be absolutely clear: this movie looks awesome. Great cast, intriguing plot and the trailer leaves more questions than answers. It’s just going to be difficult to get past the name.

The title comes from a 1966 short story of the same name by Robert Silverberg which served as the basis for the film. Yet it’s not unlike Hollywood to pluck a previously published story and change the name for the big screen.

With that in mind, here are a few other options the studios should have consider titling this project before it releases on October 15.

  • Love Isn’t Always On Time
  • Time Of My Wife
  • Back To The Altar
  • There Goes The Bride
  • Bride And Prejudice
  • No Time To Love
  • Time is on My Bride
  • Pirates of the Consummation
  • Leslie Odom Jr’s New Movie

If none of those suffice, Twitter users seem more than prepared to workshop a few other potential titles.

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