Xuxa Popstar

{{short description|2000 film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Tizuka Yamasaki}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Xuxa Popstar | image = Xuxa Popstar poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Paulo Sérgio de Almeida Tizuka Yamasaki | producer = Diler Trindade | writer = Elizeu Ewald Vivian Perl Wagner de Assis | starring = Xuxa Meneghel Luigi Baricelli Marcos Frota Deborah Blando Sílvia Pfeifer | music = Deborah Blando Mu Carvalho Maurício Manieri | cinematography = Ana Schlee | editing = Diana Vasconcellos João Paulo Carvalho | studio = Globo Filmes Xuxa Produções Warner Bros. | distributor = Warner Bros. | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2000|12|15|Brazil|ref1=<ref>{{cite web| url=http://bases.cinemateca.gov.br/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/iah/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&base=FILMOGRAFIA&lang=p&nextAction=lnk&exprSearch=ID=022996&format=detailed.pft| title=Xuxa Popstar| publisher=Cinemateca Brasileira| access-date=March 17, 2015| language=pt| archive-date=4 February 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124108/http://bases.cinemateca.gov.br/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/iah/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&base=FILMOGRAFIA&lang=p&nextAction=lnk&exprSearch=ID=022996&format=detailed.pft| url-status=dead}}</ref>}} | runtime = 86 minutes | country = Brazil | language = Portuguese | budget = R$ 2.8 million<ref name=Orçamento>{{cite web| url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq1512200014.htm| title=Propaganda é alvo do longa para "baixinhos"|publisher=Folha de S. Paulo | access-date=1 May 2017| language=pt}}</ref> | gross = R$ 9.6 million<ref name=Faturamento/> }} '''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.

Popstar was co-produced by Warner Bros. and was released theatrically on 15 December 2000.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u6868.shtml| title=Xuxa chega às telas dos cinemas com novo filme no próximo dia 15| work=Folha de S.Paulo| access-date=2 May 2017| language=pt}}</ref> The feature was watched by approximately 2,394,326 viewers.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://veja.abril.com.br/vejarj/250106/capa.html| title=Máquina de fazer filmes| work=Revista Veja| access-date=March 19, 2015| language=pt| archive-date=29 October 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029090056/http://veja.abril.com.br/vejarj/250106/capa.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Plot == After a brilliant career abroad, an international top model named Nick (Xuxa Meneghel) returns to Brazil to find her Prince Charming, whom she met through an Internet chat. In the country, she becomes a successful businesswoman of fashion, but her competitor does everything to disrupt the girl.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film971234.html| title=Xuxa Popstar| publisher=FilmAffinity| access-date=2 May 2017| language=en| archive-date=17 October 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017043005/https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film971234.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Cast == *Xuxa Meneghel as Nicole Vegas (Nick) *Luigi Baricelli as Ricardo / Ray of Light *Marcos Frota as João Pedro (JP) *Cláudia Rodrigues as Mari *Sílvia Pfeifer as Vani *Cláudio Corrêa e Castro as Olímpio *Luís Salém as Cicinho *Deborah Blando as Mel *Isabelle Drummond as Juju *Brunno Abrahão as Lipe *Leonardo Netto as Vitinho *Gianne Albertoni as herself *Leonardo as Dado *André Bankoff as Felipe *Sheila Mello as herself *Andréa Veiga as Andréa *Renata Pitanga as Renata *Anna Paula Almeida as Aninha *Adriana Bombom as Candy *Daiane Amêndola as Dai *Harmonia do Samba as themselves *Scheila Carvalho as herself *Otávio Mesquita as himself *Alexandre Pires as himself *KLB as themselves *SNZ as themselves *Os Travessos as themselves

==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.<ref name="kukaKid">{{cite web|title=Globo veta Sandy & Júnior e faz Xuxa adiar novo filme|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq1307200004.htm|publisher=Folha.com.br|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="kukaKid"/>

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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u7424.shtml| title=Xuxa diz que poderá produzir um filme para a filha Sasha| publisher=Folha de S.Paulo | access-date=2 May 2017| language=en}}</ref> His manager then had the idea of making a film that could put musical attractions, just like in the previous one, to attract the adolescent public, that accompanied Xuxa in its TV series Planeta Xuxa.<ref name="Terra"/> "In some cases it was possible to sew the musical appearance in the plot, but many entries were due to the invitation made by Marlene in the middle of filming," says screenwriter Vivian Perl.<ref name="Terra">{{cite web|title=Xuxa reúne axé e pagode em "Popstar"|url=https://www.terra.com.br/cinema/infantil/popstar.htm|publisher=Terra Networks|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref> Diler Andrade defines the insertions of musical numbers (in a non-musical film) as a "strategic marriage" between the cinematographic and phonographic industry. "We need to repeat the feat of the music industry, which holds 80% of the market, against 20% of foreign artists.<ref name="Terra"/> Vivian Perl says that Xuxa manager Marlene Mattos put the musical number on the film after conducting research on the most popular groups.<ref name="Terra"/> The recordings began in September 2000.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u3091.shtml| title=Xuxa começa a gravar novo filme em setembro| publisher=Folha de S.Paulo | access-date=2 May 2017| language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Folha1"/> But it was not only this aspect that Xuxa wanted to show with the film.<ref name="Folha1"/> According to her the intention was to show the glamor that exists in the profession, but at the same time, get very close to reality by showing the difficulties of the career. "I wanted to gather some of the glamorous life that everyone wants with the difficulties that exist to achieve that dream," he said.<ref name="Folha1"/> According to the presenter, being a model, actress and soccer player is the dream of most children. The deduction came from a research in which the production took as a base to realize the film.<ref name="Folha1"/>

Xuxa said that the film is not necessarily for the children's audience, but for the family,<ref name="Folha1">{{cite web|title=Xuxa lembra início de carreira de modelo em "Pop Star"|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u7415.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref> 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. I think it's important that they know that it takes a lot of head not to fall on the bad side of the profession, that has drugs, prostitution."<ref name=Faturamento/>

The film does not escape the standard of the cinematographic productions of Xuxa, There are no missing musical numbers - which, many times, arise without connection with the plot - and very, merchandising.<ref name="Terra2">{{cite web|title=Xuxa quer arrasar bilheterias com "Popstar" |url=https://www.terra.com.br/cinema/noticias/2000/12/04/014.htm|publisher=Terra Networks|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title="Pop Star" mantém fórmula tradicional de Xuxa|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u7909.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> the groups Harmonia do Samba, As Meninas, Os Travessos, KLB, SNZ and É o Tchan: and the singers Deborah Blando and Mauricio Manieri participated in the film.<ref name="Terra2"/> With little script and excesses, the film has excessive merchandising of brands of companies, or recording artists. In the interview, Xuxa, moved, thanks the artists who participated in the movie "without charging money", just for the good will to be in the film.<ref name=Faturamento/> The film also has unusual appearances by presenter Otávio Mesquita, singer Leonardo and model Gianne Albertoni.<ref name="Terra2"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Em novo filme de Xuxa, Leonardo tenta conquistar a apresentadora|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u5272.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> Also present are Sílvia Pfeifer, Claudia Rodrigues and veteran Claudio Corrêa e Castro.<ref name="Terra2"/> According to Vivian Perl, who wrote the story in partnership with Elizeu Ewald, the musical number serves to "illustrate a moment of introspection" of the protagonist.<ref name="Terra"/>

The actors Thiago Lacerda, Marcello Antony and Reynaldo Gianecchini were invited to interpret Ricardo the romantic pair of Xuxa in the film, but neither one of them could accept, and the pepel ended up being interpreted by Luigi Baricelli.<ref>{{cite web|title=Quem sobe e quem desce|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/colunas/ooops/ult340u3.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> The scene of the kiss between Nick and Ray of Light was repeated dozens of times.<ref name="Folha de S.Paulo">{{cite web|title=Xuxa diz que foi difícil beijar Baricelli em "Pop Star"|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u7416.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bom-moço conquista Xuxa no cinema|url=https://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/65/reportagem/rep_luigi_baricelli.htm|publisher=ISTOÉ|access-date=9 October 2013|archive-date=1 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601015738/http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/65/reportagem/rep_luigi_baricelli.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> The interpretation was so intense that at that time some tabloids even published that there was no technical kiss and that Xuxa and Luigi Baricelli would have a love relationship.<ref name="globo1">{{cite web|title=Luigi Baricelli: Conheça curiosidades sobre o ator|url=http://revistaquem.globo.com/Revista/Quem/0,,EMI249036-9531,00-LUIGI+BARICELLI+CONHECA+CURIOSIDADES+SOBRE+O+ATOR.html|publisher=Quem|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> The two even denied the relationship, but the Xuxa confirmed that the kiss was not technical.<ref name="globo1"/>

==Music== Unlike the film previous, ''Popstar'' did not have its soundtrack released on CD or any other format. However, a promotional album was released by Abril Music with 3 songs that were present in the movie: O Rodo (Harmonia do Samba), Seamisai (Deborah Blando) and the theme song Popstar (Maurício Manieri).

*Popstar - Maurício Manieri *Não Olhe Assim - Leonardo *Shake, Shake - Xuxa *Bate Tchan - É o Tchan! *O Rodo - Harmonia do Samba *Tô Te Filmando - Os Travessos *Um Dia Pra Nós - Os Travessos *Ela Não Está Aqui - KLB *Tapa Aqui, Descobre Ali - As Meninas *Seamisai - Deborah Blando *Venha Dançar - SNZ *Mais e Mais - Marcos Chadler

==Release== Xuxa promoted a press conference in São Paulo to publicize the film in which he stated that he hoped so as "''Requebra'' was a box office record. I'm sure the same will happen with ''Popstar''."<ref name="Terra2"/> The film was released on 15 December 2000,<ref>{{cite web|title=As 50 maiores aberturas de todos os tempos|url=http://www.filmeb.com.br/database2/html/ME01.php|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> TV Globo reserved four rooms of a movie complex in Rio for the exhibition, on 6 January 2001, of ''Popstar''. Officials of the station were invited to occupy the audience in exchange for food that was ceded to NGOs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Outro Canal: Globo exibirá "Popstar"|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u8512.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref>

==Critical reception== ''Xuxa Popstar'' received generally negative from critics. Marcelo Forlani wrote in his website ''Omelette'' critique: "In the summer of 1999/2000, ''Xuxa Requebra'' obtained the highest grossing of national productions, betting on the same formulation that the ''Children's Queen'' decided to put a new product in theaters, yes, because this feature does not have a screenplay and only serves as a huge shelf where the new goods of the brand Xuxa are exposed ... An abuse to the spectator's intelligence and to the good taste, so much the face of stick like everything is shown, always in the foreground, leaving the characters themselves in secondary positions ... From the "drafting of the script" to its completion, it was only a few weeks ago, but there are no excuses for the lack of creativity presented.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://omelete.uol.com.br/filmes/noticia/xuxa-pop-mal-estar/ |title= Xuxa Popstar |access-date=9 October 2013 |author= Marcelo Forlani |date= December 15, 2000 |publisher= omelete.uol.com.br}}</ref>

The critic Celso Sabadin wrote that "Pop Star can not be considered a bad movie. Even because it's not a movie. It's just a bunch of music video made for popular groups. Between one video and another, one tries to tell a story. Just try. You never can. The basic proposal is clear: make money. Nothing else.<ref>{{cite web|title=XUXA POP STAR|url=https://www.cineclick.com.br/criticas/xuxa-pop-star|publisher=Cineclick|access-date=9 October 2013|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204070408/https://www.cineclick.com.br/criticas/xuxa-pop-star|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Box office== ''Xuxa popstar'' in less than a month had already been seen by more than 1 million people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Filme de Xuxa foi visto por mais de 1 milhão de pessoas em um mês|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u8903.shtml|publisher=Folha de S.Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> The film led the ranking of audiences in Brazilian cinemas in 2001, after 40 weeks of the debut of "Popstar".<ref name=Bode>{{cite web|title=Xuxa desbanca superproduções de Hollywood e lidera o ranking dos filmes mais vistos em 2001|url=http://www.bonde.com.br/cinema/lancamentos/xuxa-desbanca-superproducoes-de-hollywood-e-lidera-ranking-2001-9114.html|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> Despite not leading the top-grossing list of the year, the children's queen continued in front of all of the super-productions of the summer with several viewers.<ref name=Bode/> Xuxa Popstar was assisted by more than 2.38 million people.<ref name="Xuxa, a rainha das telas">{{cite web|title=Xuxa, a rainha das telas|url=https://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/127/divearte/cine_xuxa_rainha.htm|publisher=ISTOÉ|access-date=9 October 2013|archive-date=17 March 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317021400/https://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/127/divearte/cine_xuxa_rainha.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> The national film was the great Brazilian box-office champion in 2001.<ref name=Faturamento/><ref name="Xuxa, a rainha das telas"/> ''Xuxa Popstar'' took 2.3 million viewers to cinemas, surpassing the previous year's mark of the children's queen, when ''Xuxa Requebra'' (1999) was seen by about 2 million people.<ref name="Xuxa, a rainha das telas"/> The closest competitor to "Popstar" is ''The Mummy Returns'', which was watched by 2.26 million Brazilians.<ref name=Bode/> The film became the Brazilian record-breaking movie,<ref>{{cite web|title=Xuxa adere ao digital e lança filme interativo|url=http://www.estadao.com.br/arquivo/arteelazer/2001/not20011213p2919.htm|publisher=O Estado de S. Paulo|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> for the first time in more than a decade, a Brazilian film ended the year as the box office champion in the country's cinemas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Em busca do cinema popular brasileiro|url=http://www.marketing-e-cultura.com.br/website/pap-pass/17-11-01.html|access-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref>

''Xuxa popstar'' had a budget of 2.8 million Brazilian reais, the largest for a Xuxa film, until the launch of ''Xuxa e os Duendes'', which got 3.8 million reais in budget.<ref name=Folhalondrina>{{cite web|title='DUENDES' SERÁ O FILME MAIS CARO DE XUXA|url=https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/folha-2/duendes-sera-o-filme-mais-caro-de-xuxa-354548.html|publisher=Folha.com.br|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref> The film grossed over 9 million Brazilian reais.<ref name=Faturamento>{{cite web|title=Ranking do filme nacional 2001 (ficção)|url=http://www.filmeb.com.br/database2/html/ME01.php|access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref>

== See also == * List of Brazilian films of 2000

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0286320|Xuxa Popstar}}

Category:2000 films Category:2000 romantic comedy films Category:2000s musical comedy films Category:2000s romantic musical films Category:Brazilian musical comedy films Category:Brazilian romantic comedy films Category:Films about fashion Category:Films directed by Tizuka Yamasaki Category:Warner Bros. films Category:Films shot in Rio de Janeiro (city) Category:2000 Brazilian films Category:2000 musical films