Xuxa Popstar

Xuxa Popstar (2000)

The latest trend in romantic comedy

Nick, a famous fashion model, decides to retire and goes back to her home country Brazil, after a briliant international career. She becomes the head executive of Popstar, the modeling agency where she started her career, and has to deal with intrigues, fashion faux pas and a budding online romance with Sunshine, a mysterious online friend.

Date of release
2000-12-15
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Family
Director
Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Tizuka Yamasaki

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Rio de Janeiro

Xuxa Popstar is a 2000 Brazilian musical romantic comedy film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida and Tizuka Yamasaki with screenplay by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis. The cast includes Xuxa Meneghel, Luigi Baricelli, Marcos Frota and Sílvia Pfeifer, as well as musical numbers with Os Travessos, KLB and Deborah Blando.

Production and concept

After a successful film for the teen audience, Xuxa planned to do something for children. In Xuxa Kid, Xuxa would become a 10-year-old girl, similar to what would happen years later in Xuxa em Sonho de Menina (2007). In the story, the young version of the presenter would have the duo Sandy and Junior as their friends. The recordings were planned for September and would be released in December.

However, Globo Filmes decided to veto the participation of the pair because there were already plans to launch a film with the brothers as protagonists, a fact that only came to fruition in 2003. Because of this decision, the story of the film had to be completely changed and the launch of a new film was delayed until March 2001.

After the project was canceled, Xuxa was persuaded by her team to make a new film, with a new script, that would rekindle her teen audience, as well as the previous one, and that the idea for a movie for the children's audience would be for next year.

According to the presenter, the film recounts a little of the story she lived when she spent three months in the United States early in her modeling career. "It is very difficult to face the lack of your country. We miss everything and have an hour that feels like coming back," he said. But it was not only this aspect that Xuxa wanted to show with the film.

Xuxa said that the film is not necessarily for the children's audience, but for the family, The team's great pride, according to Xuxa, was to make a film "that brings an important message to children". "We did a research and found that boys want to be football players and girls, models, models and singers.

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