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Earth Girls Are Easy

A 1988 sci-fi musical comedy about aliens and love.

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The film underwent over five months of post-production, including reshoots and the removal of several scenes.[1] Vestron Pictures acquired distribution rights after positive previews, and the film debuted at the Toronto Festival of Festivals in September 1988.[2] Legal issues delayed its release until May 1989.[2] The film earned only about a third of its $10 million production cost at the box office.[3]

Following Julie Brown's 1984 EP, Warner Bros. started crafting a musical comedy inspired by her song, with Brown as the star.[4] Brown, Terrence E. McNally, and Charlie Coffey were the writers of the screenplay.[4] Madonna and Molly Ringwald were both approached to play Valerie Gail, but after they turned it down, Warner Bros. abandoned the film.[5] Filming started near the end of 1987.[1]

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The soundtrack album was released on May 9, 1989, by Sire Records on vinyl, cassette, and CD.[6] Several songs from the film were omitted from the soundtrack, and Geena Davis's song was replaced by a Jill Jones rendition.[6] Julie Brown's song "'Cause I'm A Blonde" on the soundtrack has a duration of 2:15.[7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rochlin, "Has Julien Temple Gone Hollywood?", November 1988, p. 32, 35, 38; Rochlin, "Has Julien Temple Gone Hollywood?", November 1988, p. 32, 35, 38; Rebello, "Grounded By Earth Girls And Lawyers", November 1988, p. 39; Rebello, "Grounded By Earth Girls And Lawyers", November 1988, p. 39 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)", AFI Catalog of Feature Films; Rebello, "Grounded By Earth Girls And Lawyers", November 1988, p. 39; Rebello, "Grounded By Earth Girls And Lawyers", November 1988, p. 39; "Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)", AFI Catalog of Feature Films (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Box office/business for Earth Girls Are Easy", IMDb (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)", AFI Catalog of Feature Films (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rebello, "Grounded By Earth Girls And Lawyers", November 1988, p. 39 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)", SoundtrackCollector; "Earth Girls Are Easy [Soundtrack]", Amazon (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. "Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)", SoundtrackCollector. facts only, no text reused. soundtrackcollector.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Earth Girls Are Easy (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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