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Mariah Gets Back into Acting Ring
We kid you not.
Despite her frighteningly bad performance in her movie debut, Glitter--a film that tanked at the box office, contributed to Carey's summer meltdown and earned the singer a Razzie nom for Worst Actress--Carey is ready to do it all over again and prove naysayers wrong.
She has signed to star in the pugilism drama Sweet Science, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Carey will play a strong-willed manager who recruits a young female boxer to take the not-so-glamorous boxing world by storm.
The project would reteam Carey with Anthony Esposito, the producer of her yet-to-be-released second flick, Wisegirls.
Wisegirls, in which Carey costars with Mira Sorvino as a couple of waitresses who work at a restaurant used as a front for the Mob, premiered to good reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in January. (The film had previously made headlines for the rumored cat fight between Carey and Sorvino, which turned out to be unfounded.)
"I had such a great experience with Mariah Carey on Wisegirls that I wanted to make another film with her," Esposito gushes to the Hollywood Reporter. "Her performance in Wisegirls is outstanding...I feel [that] given the right role, the depth of Mariah's performance will make everyone take notice of her great acting ability."
Given the outcome of the semiautobiographical Glitter--in which Carey struggled to play a pop diva--you'd think anyone putting "Mariah" and "great acting ability" in the same sentence would be laughed out of Tinseltown. But Wisegirls received a standing ovation following its Sundance screening, with Carey surprising people and generating solid buzz for her tough-talking role.
Of course, good word-of-mouth is what Mariah desperately needs to fend off the bad publicity of Glitter, her hospitalization for an "emotional and physical breakdown" and her recent recording contract debacle.
Last month, her money-strapped label EMI-Virgin decided to cut its losses and buy out Carey's $80 million contract even though she only released one album, the Glitter soundtrack, under the deal.
Carey didn't exactly come away empty-handed, however. The label paid her $28 million to cut the cord, and she was allowed to keep a $21 million signing bonus. She's already in talks with several record companies to release her future albums.
Meanwhile, Carey continues to hone her acting ability: Last month, she had a cameo role in an episode of Fox's Ally McBeal.
As for Sweet Science, the project is slated to start shooting this summer. The David Anspaugh-helmed Wisegirls, meanwhile, will hit theaters later this year.
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