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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 2461699" data-attributes="member: 812">You have evidence for this? Or are you now making stuff up?What does this have to do with Hijinks' comment? Hijinks asserted that more people like musicals because of Chicago. I pointed out that there is no evidence to suggest that is true. You come along and note that in the wake of Chicago (and bizarrely, Moulin Rouge, which can't honestly be counted as any sort of big success), two more musicals have reached the big screen in the following three years. Although let us note that in the three years PREVIOUS to Chicago we saw The King And I, Hedwig And The Angry Inch and indeed the not-as-well-received-as-you-seem-to-think Moulin Rouge. So it's tough to argue that we're seeing some dramatic increase in the number of musical projects getting moved forward.And even if we DID, that's no evidence that Hijinks is correct -- that's evidence that studio execs THINK Hijinks is correct. And studio execs have proven notoriously bad at predicting what people want.Facts. I love facts.</blockquote>