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dluvswh wrote:

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This is awesome!!! I knew it was going to happen, but confirmation always makes it better.

Someone who's recently read the book, please correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't Savannah come off the weight as the book progresses? If so, I imagine Whitney would want to knock all the weight off before shooting starts and wear a piece to give the illsuion of being overweight. I don't think she'll want to have to lose weight while shooting, that's extra stress.

I don't remember. I read the book in bits and spurts over about 4-5mths as I had little time for reading.  I will revisit this weekend. In any event, she has about 6-8 mths to get in shape and she has to for the movie.  That is just a given. Moves and pictures add about 10-15lbs on to a person's profile I don't think that whitney is fat or even overweight for her height. However, we know she has to tone that tummy and wear spanx. Pretty much go back to how she looked at the beginning of the ILTY era before she got sick. To me when she got ill and went on steroids, that was where all the weight gain came from. Granted, she's lost quite a bit but the stubborn portion around her midsection needs help to go away.

Whitneyluva wrote:

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It would suck if this really is the "next" project Whitney does as far as getting something else in the meantime. All things point to them not shooting until early 2012, which means the movie/soundtrack wouldn't be out until the end of next year. I'm all for the project but I would hate for Whitney to go that long without working.

If we go by what Angela Bassett says and that schedule holds which makes sense to me (because the holiday period IS the best time to release this movie) then shooting will start around Jan/Feb or so. I expect from my research that shooting will take about 1-2mths, then call backs, editing etc will take abount 2-4 mths which sould be around June/Aug.  I expect if she is working on the soundtrack (which ARista will be morons to pass up this opportunity as it has a built in audience)  it will be around this time.

Probably the lead single will be from her and will come out about 6-8wks before the movie (around end of Sept) or so.  If they follow Jumping the Broom formula, that movie shot in June/July and took about 1-2 mths to film.  Then they had the first trailer out really early around Dec 2010, then more trailers 2011 beginning.  Then they went into promotion overdrive for about 2 mths with Angela and the cast doing radio junket interviews, mag interviews, websites, tv etc So I expect us to see quite a bit of her during the summer for promo.

I'm trying to think of what she could do between now and Jan and I just don't see the time for another album.  Perhaps she could work on anothe rmovie at the end of the year or early spring but we don't have any indication of that.

I do hope and think 2012 will be a busy year for her. She has to be in LA for a reason for this extended stay- i'd say negotiaions but who knows.  Both Krissi and NIck said that she was coming to LA to do a movie but we haven't heard of anything yet.

^^ @draug: I think people are worried that they won't see or hear anything from Whitney for almost a year and a half. I almost which this was so because there seems to be so much dissatisfaction whenever she does show up and when she doesn't bitching about no news and how bad it is for her fans, lol


Release Date

I think tha your theory is a good one and that they could go for a summer /late spring release. However, I'm guessing that the budget for GTH will be at least 3 xs more than jumping the broom which means it will have a higher hurdle to clear to make a profit. To make this easier, a holiday release would be the best possible time to release, imo.

I expect that the studio will make an announcement in about 2mths if this movie is indeed a go. Based on JTB, after the annoucement, about a week later, a formal annoucement of the director and part of the cast. Followed by another annoucemen with the complete list of cast members soon after. Shooting started about 2 mths after the first announcement whichwas very swift. I think that they finished shooting the end of Aug 2010 or so.

Scheduling

I believe Angela Bassett has some movie commitments for this summer- she has Green Lantern the movie and she said that her tv pilot 'identity' may get picked up so scheduling also has to do with her availabilit.