“And frankly, there were gloomy faces all over the lot for quite a while, because it was a film that, without the music in it, didn’t add up to much. “ Flashdance was shooting on the same lot as us at Paramount,” Oakes remembers. “If you continue to go further in the direction of Flashdance, you end up with a film with no characters and hardly any dialogue. “I hope we don’t get a plethora of movies like that, although it has clearly affected the thinking of the studios this year,” says Bill Oakes, the head of RSO Films, which produced not just Staying Alive but such other films with big-selling soundtracks as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Xanadu. Unfortunately, as a result, we may see a host of imitators of Flashdance and Staying Alive, which were weak on dialogue and plot, but strong on rock music and dancing to propel the action along.
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“If you have a really hot soundtrack and you can get MTV playing it all day long, you’re in business,” says Leonard Goldberg, executive producer of WarGames, another youth-oriented movie that was a big hit this summer, grossing $68.2 million. What’s going on here is a terrific marketing event that transcends a movie or an album.” “You’re going to see the cross-plugging back and forth - the movie selling the MTV selling the album selling a book selling even a fashion.
“You’re going to see that synergism all over now,” says movie-marketing consultant Charlie Powell. MTV’s airing of these videos, which use actual footage from the films, amounts to promotion for the movies as well as the music. Michael Sembello’s “Maniac” rose to the top of the charts with strong promotion from a video that’s a montage of Flashdance‘s sexy dance sequences Stallone’s “Far From Over” got heavy play by MTV for a video that features John Travolta. They call it “cross-plugging”: the film gets a boost from the airing of video clips that are made to promote the music. What the industry has learned from the success of these films is not just that rock & roll draws its huge following into theaters, but that MTV and video clips are a strong new force in movie advertising. Staying Alive had earned $58.3 million and finally had a hit in Frank Stallone’s “Far From Over,” after an initial single by the Bee Gees had bombed. Flashdance, the movie, had grossed $87.5 million, while the soundtrack had sold a staggering 4 million copies and produced two Number One singles. As the summer ended, the two current movies with Top Ten, platinum-selling soundtracks, Flashdance and Staying Alive, continued to draw at the box office.
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