7 Things Scene and Heard at ‘La La Land’ LA Premiere
While “La La Land” has been racking up film festival trophies and notching critics honors with the 2017 Oscar race in full swing, star Ryan Gosling has yet to dance into 2016-17 awards scene, where fellow contenders Casey Affleck, Mel Gibson, Amy Adams, and the ensemble from “Moonlight” have been mingling for months.
Director Damien Chazelle and Lionsgate’s surreal romance is winning the game so far, with a leading 12 nominations heading in to Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards.
Gosling, who plays jazz musician Sebastian, made brief remarks inside the theatre before the screening, expressing gratitude that studios will still make an original musical in a classical style.
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At “La La’s” AFI screening at the TCL Chinese before Thanksgiving, the audience applauded the opening freeway number, a barometer-setting spectacle prefacing the main titles.
Within the first 10 minutes, the crowd cheered the second musical number, a neck-swiveling sprint through a girls’ group house getting ready and heading out to a Hollywood party.
Freshly back from a UNESCO photography trip to Colombia hours earlier, the Party Report broke the news to him.
While “Dancing with the Stars” choreographer Cheryl Burke is not amongst the 112 dancers in the movie, she escorted her sister Nicole Wolf down the red carpet.
“Orange is the New Black” star Jackie Cruz stoked the Spanish language media on the way in, super producer Steve Tisch strolled the carpet and stopped to pose with girlfriend Katia Francesconi, while “Moonlight’s” Mahershala Ali also made the scene.
Some of the superlative “pull quotes” from early reviews dressed the screen before the movie began.