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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 2461545" data-attributes="member: 515">No, he's not making it up. That's the way Hollywood works. Because of the success, both at the box office and at the Oscars, of the musical Chicago, studios are now willing to greenlight other movie musicals. Rent was not just a matter of time. It had been stuck in Hollywood limbo ever since it was a Broadway hit, along with many other musicals. No Hollywood studio was willing to greenlight them. After the success of Moulin Rogue one year and then Chicago the next, suddenly studios started greenlighting musicals, at least "name" musicals. Phantom of the Opera, which came out last year, was the first. Rent and several others are in the pipeline, will be coming out later this year and in the future. Whether there is an actual audience demand for musicals is yet to be determined -- we'll see when the movies reach the theaters. But as far as the studios are concerned, they perceive there is a demand because of the success of Chicago and Moulin Rogue.</blockquote>