JAY-Z PRAISED BY LUHRMANN FOR WORK ON BLOCKBUSTER "THE GREAT GATSBY"

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JAY-Z PRAISED BY BAZ LUHRMANN FOR HIS WORK ON THE GREAT GATSBY SOUNDTRACK

Director says rapper got the film's point

Jay-Z has been praised by Baz Luhrmann, director of The Great Gatsby, for his work as the executive producer for the film’s soundtrack.
Jay-Z executive produced the movie soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby." T
he movie dazzled at the Box Office earning $51.1 million in its first weekend.Watch a trailer for The Great Gatsby below:


Jay-Z oversaw a host of big name artists including his wife Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, Emeli Sande, The xx and Jack White for the soundtrack to the adaptaion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.
Speaking with MTV the director said: “Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz were two of the first people to see a rough cut of the film. Jay watched it, and he was fantastic. He and Swizz were talking. I’m like, ‘What are they talking about?’ And at the end, [Jay-Z] said: ‘This story is not about how Jay Gatsby made his money; it’s ‘is he a good person or not?’.
“He totally nailed that the book was aspirational,” Luhrmann added.
“That the book was really about, if you’ve got a cause, you can move to towards a green light. That you don’t reach it isn’t the point; that you aspire is.”
The soundtrack, which was released on Monday (May 6), also features new tracks from Florence + The Machine, Gotye, Bryan Ferry,Will.i.am and Nero as well as a track from Jay-Z himself.

 Baz Luhrmann directed the film released on May 17th

Here are some details of the full track listing:
'100$ Bill' – Jay-Z
'Back To Black' – Beyonce x Andre 3000
'Bang Bang' – will.i.am
'A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)' – Fergie + Q Tip + GoonRock
'Young And Beautiful' – Lana Del Rey
'Love Is The Drug' – Bryan Ferry with The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
'Over The Love' – Florence + The Machine
'Where The Wind Blows' – Coco O of Quadron
'Crazy In Love' – Emeli Sande and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
'Together' – The xx
'Hearts A Mess' – Gotye
'Love Is Blindness' – Jack White
'Into The Past' – Nero
'Kill And Run' – Sia

The Great Gatsby' Opened To $51 Million.


The Great Gatsby pulled off something of a coup, earning a shocking $51.1 million this weekend. The Baz Luhrmann 3D adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel was scheduled in a release slot, the unofficial second weekend of summer, where would-be blockbusters, especially Warner Bros’ would-be blockbusters, go to die badly.  The film was scheduled to open on Christmas Day of last year, but was moved into early May, setting off buzz that the would-be Oscar contender was somewhat of a dud.  And reviews mostly bore that out, with a mixed-negative critical reaction. With a risky date change, a genuinely cursed release date, and trailers that impressed and repulsed in equal doses (“The Great Gatsbyscored to Jay-Z tunes?  You speak sorcery!”), there were rumblings that Warner Bros. was in trouble.
But Warner Bros. is not in trouble this weekend. Warner Bros. marketing deserves a real gold star and/or bonuses come Monday.  Sure it’s easy to give kudos when a film like The Dark Knight Rises opens to $160 million, but projects like this and/or Magic Mike‘s stunning $39 million debut last summer, show how skilled Warner Bros. can be in terms of selling unconventional pictures and sometimes turning them into blockbusters.  And that’s what The Great Gatsby is… a character-driven star vehicle based on a classic 1920′s novel that just opened like a would-be franchise tent pole. The film had the third biggest opening ever for a film that didn’t open at number 01 on its given opening weekend, behind Sherlock Holmes  ($62 million) and The Day After Tomorrow ($68 million).
The top film of the weekend was again Iron Man 3, which overcame a huge Friday-to-Friday drop to go kid-strong on Saturday for a $72.4 million second weekend, a weekend drop of 58% (Iron Man 2 dropped 59% in weekend two).  That gives it the fourth biggest second-weekend behind The Avengers‘s $103 million, Avatar‘s $75.6m, and The Dark Knight‘s $75.1m and just ahead ofShrek 2‘s $72.1 million.  The Disney/Marvel sequel has a domestic cume of $284 million, good for the fourth-biggest 10-day total of all time, behind The Dark Knight Rises‘s $287.1 million and ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II with $273 million.  So $400 million domestic is pretty much guaranteed at this point, as is an eventual $1.2 billion worldwide gross, since it now has $948 million worldwide.


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