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Take That take over 75th Cannes Film Festival to promote movie musical Greatest Days

Take That were looking sharp at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this afternoon, when Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald took part in a special Riviera photocall to introduce international film buyers to upcoming movie Greatest Days, which is based on the hit stage musical The Band, which features music and lyrics from Take That.

The film will be released in 2023. Coky Giedroyc (How to Build a Girl) is directing the big screen adaptation, written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls).

The movie Greatest Days is based on the hit stage musical The Band…

Howard Donald, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen enjoying the 75th Cannes Film Festival

Developed with support from Universal Music Group and the band themselves, the cast includes Aisling Bea (This Way Up), Jayde Adams (Serious Black Jumper), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror), Amaka Okafor (The Responder), Marc Wootton (Nativity), Lara McDonnell (Belfast), Jessie Mae Alonzo (Little Joe), and Nandi Hudson (Army of Thieves). ‘The Boyband’ will feature Aaron Bryan, Dalvin Cory, Joshua Jung, Mark Samaras and Mervin Noronh.

Lost tapes and archival rarities: The story behind the Phantom of the Opera 40th-anniversary album remix

Best selling musical theatre album The Phantom of the Opera is getting a lavish 40th-anniversary makeover this autumn, with Andrew Lloyd Webber returning to the original analogue master tapes to create the most complete presentation yet of the celebrated 1986 cast recording. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September and October 1986, it captured Michael…