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With nan vacation merchandise of Song Sung Blue, writer/director Craig Brewer had already received nan eventual glowing review.
Based connected nan Greg Kohs documentary of nan aforesaid sanction astir a Neil Diamond tribute band, Brewer said nan 2x Grammy victor asked erstwhile he could “watch it again” aft screening nan movie starring Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman, now successful theaters.
“I was not successful nan room pinch him, but I had a fewer spies,” Brewer told Entertainment Weekly. “I had besides been prepped that Neil does not get effusively enthusiastic aliases into movies. He watches them, he studies them — that’s what I was told.”
Brewer recalled of Diamond’s reaction, “I was told from his group that they were amazed to spot conscionable really enthusiastic he started to get pinch it, that he was tapping his foot, that he would applaud aft each euphony number, and that he cried. He went up to nan projectionist, aliases nan personification was moving nan screening, and erstwhile they introduced themselves to him, he said, ‘Okay, well, when’s nan adjacent screening? Can we watch it again?’
“And truthful I was truthful happy astir his guidance because I dream what it does for him — not that he looks for this aliases needs it — but I conscionable dream he knows really incredibly applicable his publication to songwriting is,” he added. “Those songs are beautiful, and yeah, he’s a performer, but he’s a writer. He wrote these, he thought them, he felt them successful his soul, and past he created them.”
Song Sung Blue follows nan philharmonic travel and emotion communicative of Milwaukee mates Mike (Jackman) and Claire (Hudson), who shape nan Diamond tribute act, Lightning and Thunder.
