Dicks: The Musical is the first musical film by A24 and it is a comedy directed by Larry Charles.
Let’s found out some trivia and facts about the film.
- Dicks: The Musical is a 2023 American musical comedy film
- It is based on the off-Broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins
- The musical was made by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson
- It had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2023
- On October 6, 2023, it was released in the United States by A24
- The film marks the studio’s first musical film
- Two business adversaries who realize they’re identical twin brothers decide to switch places to reunite their divorced parents so they all can become an actual family again
- In June 2016, 20th Century Fox was set to produce a film adaptation of Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson’s two-man musical F***ing Identical Twins
- With Sharp and Jackson writing the script
- And Peter Chernin’s production company for Fox
- In February 2022, A24 acquired the film after Fox merged with Disney
- With Chernin Entertainment still attached to produce and co-finance the film
- And Larry Charles was set to direct
- Larry Charles is the director of films such as Borat, Bruno and The Dictator
- On February 17, 2022, Sharp and Jackson were set to reprise their roles and Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang joined the cast
- In February 2022, Sharp, Jackson and Karl Saint Lucy wrote new songs for the film
- Marius de Vries was the film’s music producer
- Fiora Cutler was the music supervisor
- Most of the vocal performances for the musical numbers were recorded live on set instead of the traditional method of lip-syncing to pre-recorded tracks
- It had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2023, where it won the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness
- It was released in the United States by A24 on October 6, 2023
- It was previously scheduled to be released on September 29, 2023
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 75% rating
- Based on 48 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 6/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “From its eyebrow-raising title to its gleefully provocative humor, talented cast, and catchy songs, Dicks: The Musical is a cult movie in the making”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100
- Based on 20 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average” reviews
- The film has earned thus far over 220.000 $
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