/UCWE/ - Press attending this year's Cannes Film Festival were given an opportunity to see approximately 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage from the film "DREAMGIRLS", which opens in the United States this Holiday season. In addition, guests were invited to go "behind the scenes" and meet some of the talents involved in the making of DreamWorks Pictures' and Paramount Pictures' upcoming film version of "DREAMGIRLS."

They invited the various members of the media to a cocktail reception at the Martinez Hotel Ballroom, which had been transformed to showcase the sets, costumes, music and dancing in DREAMGIRLS.

Their guests mingled with director/screenwriter Bill Condon and producer Laurence Mark to learn more about bringing "DREAMGIRLS" to the big screen. Also on hand to offer insights into their respective fields were: two-time Oscar winning production designer John Myhre ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Chicago"), who brought along scale models of different sets from the film; Oscar nominated costume designer Sharen Davis ("Ray"), with mannequins displaying a few of the film's wide-ranging costumes; award-winning choreographer Fatima Robinson, backed up by a video monitor showing her working out dance moves with the cast; and twice Tony-nominated composer Henry Krieger, who composed the original Broadway musical "Dreamgirls," and returned to write new music for the film version.

 

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