Snoop Dogg decided Song Sung Blue is a Christmas movie — and that's a huge clue for Craig Brewer's next movie
Is Song Sung Blue a Christmas movie or a movie with Christmas in it? Snoop Dogg, the subject of Craig Brewer's next film, made the call.
Hugh Jackman (Thunder) and Kate Hudson (Lightning) in Song Sung Blue. (Image credit: Focus Features)
If you're not watching a movie this festive period that specifically has the word 'Christmas' in its title, you'll likely be debating with family members over whether it's a Christmas movie, or simply a movie with Christmas in it.
There's definitely a difference between the two. It's why Die Hard, Gremlins and Home Alone are could fall into either category, depending on your point of view – and this year we can add Song Sung Blue to the list.
"It was not my intent that this would be a Christmas film"
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"It's so interesting you say that, because it's been the conversation that I've been having lately," Brewer tells me. "It was not my intent that this would be a Christmas film. When we had the first test, I was very nervous going into it, and it tested exceedingly well. It was one of those things where I think the Focus Features was taken aback by how well it was received.
"But I had a meeting the next morning with Snoop Dogg at Universal, and they had heard about the testing. I'm making a movie right now on Snoop's life. He later called me that day and he goes, 'Hey, I heard a I heard a rumor that you're going to be releasing your movie on Christmas.' And I was like, 'that's interesting. I wonder why Christmas.' And then I kept on hearing from people, 'that's really a great date because that's when all the families are coming together.'"
He continues, "The movie is about, a teenage girl who's having to take care of her crazy artistic parents. It's about a marriage. It's about a family that's struggling through the good times and the bad. It's about faith. It may not always be faith in God, but in this movie, it's actually, in a weird way, faith through Neil Diamond's music.
