Cher and Christina Aguilera Team for Big Screen 'Burlesque'

By: May. 21, 2009
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Entertainment Weekly reports that Cher is in talks to star alongside Christina Aguilera in the Screen Gems' movie musical Burlesque.

The Oscar winning singer/actress would be playing the owner of the burlesque club where Christina Aguilera works.

Christina Aguilera is set to make her big screen debut with "Burlesque", which will be directed by Steve Antin, the brother of Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin. Antin wrote the script which was revised by "Erin Brockovich" writer Susannah Grant, with Aguilera in mind. To read the EW report click here.

The movie is a contemporary musical about "an ambitious smalltown girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club." Cher's character, sources told EW, will serve as Aguilera's mentor in the film.

Aguilera has won four Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy and has sold more than 25 million albums, but she has never starred in a motion picture. The singer did lend her voice to Dreamwork's animated film "Shark Tale." 

Cher, The indestructible diva, is currently starring in a song-and-dance concert spectacle starting at the 4,100-seat Colosseum in Las Vegas Caesars Palace. Cher, 61, presents a "visually unbelievable" hit parade that entails elaborate choreography, complex staging, eye-popping costumes, 14 dancers and four aerialists. Bob Mackie designed all the costumes, Cher will have an army of dancers and according to the Diva herself.. "Creatively, we're doing something that's never been done with sets," she said of the production.

 

 

 

 



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