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Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 musical/comedy film and sequel to the highly successful 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, the film featured Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians. Image File history File links Blues_brothers_2000_poster. ...
John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ...
John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ...
John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ...
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri) is a Golden Globe award winner and Emmy award nominated American actor. ...
Joe Morton (born October 18, 1947, New York, New York, USA) is an African-American stage, television, and movie actor. ...
Cover of 1988 single Trouble (Mercury/PolyGram Records) Nia Peeples (born December 10, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. ...
Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born Jewish-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer. ...
Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ...
Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ...
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A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ...
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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical-comedy directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a Saturday Night Live sketch. ...
John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ...
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri) is a Golden Globe award winner and Emmy award nominated American actor. ...
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A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...
Plot Blues Brothers 2000 picks up 18 years after The Blues Brothers, with Elwood being released from prison, this time a rather high-tech private prison rather than the old Illinois state prison depicted in the first film. He learns that Jake (John Belushi) has died, along with their surrogate father figure Curtis (Cab Calloway), and that the orphanage the two had saved in the first film is no more; however he is told of a half brother (of sorts). He is the illegitimate son of Curtis, named Cab (Joe Morton). Cab is a chief in the police force and refuses to reunite with or support Elwood, a habitual criminal. Elwood takes a job as an announcer in a nightclub (A strip club owned by a previous member of the Blues Brothers band), where he discovers that the bartender (played by John Goodman) has singing talent, while getting on the bad side of the Russian mafia who have been demanding payoffs from the nightclub. It has been suggested that Blues brothers bar be merged into this article or section. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
Jake Blues is a character portrayed by John Belushi, as one part of the Rhythm and Blues, and Blues band the Blues Brothers. ...
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an Emmy award winning American actor, comedian and singer most notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoons Animal House and The Blues Brothers. ...
Cab Calloway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907–November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. ...
Joe Morton (born October 18, 1947, New York, New York, USA) is an African-American stage, television, and movie actor. ...
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John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri) is a Golden Globe award winner and Emmy award nominated American actor. ...
The Russian Mob or Mafia, Russkaya Mafiya, Red Mafia, Krasnaya Mafiya or Bratva (brotherhood), is a name given to a broad group of organized criminals of various ethnicity which appeared from the Soviet Union after its disintegration in 1991. ...
After the Russian mafia burns down the club, Elwood resolves to put the band back together once again with John Goodman's character as his new partner and a 10-year old orphan named Buster (J. Evan Bonifant) also tagging along. The band travels to several locations shown in the first film with a depiction of how they have changed in the intervening years (Bob's Country Bunker for example is now Bob's Country Kitchen, a family restaurant). As well as upsetting the mafia, Elwood also falls foul of a "white power group" and the police force, headed by a zealous Cab. Orphans, by Thomas Kennington An orphan (from the Greek οÏφανός) is a person (or animal), who has lost one or both parents often through death. ...
Finally, the band heads south to Louisiana with the intention of entering a battle of the bands held at the home of a voodoo practitioner named Queen Moussette, played by Erykah Badu. At the battle of the bands they compete against B.B. King's band, which by ironic or writer plot only started the band after Elwood bought a police car from him in the beginning of the film. Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 16 - Latitude 29°N to 33°N - Longitude 89°W...
Battle of the Bands is a generic term for a contest in which many bands, usually rock/guitar bands but often from a range of different styles, compete for the title of best band. The winner is determined by a panel of judges, the general response of the audience, or...
See Vodou, also Voodoo (disambiguation). ...
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Cameo appearances The following musicians made cameo appearances in the film: Many others also appeared, some of whom featured as members of the fictional band The Louisiana Gator Boys. Blues Traveler is an American jam band from Princeton, New Jersey. ...
Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born Jewish-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer. ...
Riley B. King, better known as B. B. King (born September 16, 1925), is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. ...
William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. ...
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Koko Taylor (Undated photograph) Koko Taylor sometimes called KoKo Taylor (born September 28, 1935 as Cora Walton, on a farm just outside Memphis, Tennessee) is an American blues musician, popularly known as the Queen of the Blues. ...
Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 - January 15, 1998), real name Amos Blackmore, was a blues harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lonnie Brooks, the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. ...
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American soul, R&B, and gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. ...
Steve Lawrence (born July 8, 1935) is an American singer, perhaps best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allens The Tonight Show in the mid 1950s[1][2]. Lawrence is an actor as...
Bo Diddleys emphasis on rhythm largely influenced popular music, especially that of rock and roll in the 1960s. ...
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For the American arctic explorer, see Isaac Israel Hayes Isaac Lee Hayes (born August 20, 1942, in Covington, Tennessee) is an actor, soul singer, Academy Award-winning songwriter, musician, and arranger. ...
Lonnie Brooks (December 18, 1933-) is an American blues singer and guitarist. ...
Dr. John is the stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. ...
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James Brown, known variously as: Soul Brother Number One, the Godfather of Soul, Mr. ...
Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is a prominent American jazz saxophonist who records for Nonesuch Records. ...
Gary U.S. Bonds (born Gary Anderson, June 6, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and rock n roll singer. ...
Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. ...
The famous Clapton is God graffiti Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born March 30, 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the 20th century[1], garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and...
James Travis Tritt (born February 9, 1963) is a successful American country music singer. ...
Cover of 1988 single Trouble (Mercury/PolyGram Records) Nia Peeples (born December 10, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. ...
Jimmie Vaughan (born in March 21, 1951 in Dallas, Texas) is an American blues guitarist and singer. ...
Darrell Hammond. ...
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B/Rock and Roll and soul singer. ...
Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born May 12, 1948 in Great Barr, West Midlands) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to his solo career, was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith. ...
John Popper of Blues Traveler John Popper (born in Ohio) is the frontman for the band Blues Traveler. ...
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Jeff (Skunk) Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American rock guitarist and a consultant to the U.S. government on how to apply theoretically unrelated technologies to understanding terrorist thinking and planning. ...
The Louisiana Gator Boys is a fictional blues band created for the movie Blues Brothers 2000, featuring a plethora of highly talented performers. ...
Box office The film was considered a box office failure, only generating a little over $14 million in box office sales[1] on an approximate $28 million budget.[2]
Soundtrack -
Blues Brothers 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1998 film, Blues Brothers 2000, the sequel to the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers. ...
Trivia - The Blues Brothers 2000 made a record in the Guinness Book Of Records, for the biggest car pile up, a record previously held by the original film. Approximately 100 cars were used in the scene after Elwood says to the band "Don't look back." Inevitably, they look back and see the massive pile-up.
- The film was originally intended to include Brother Zee Blues (James Belushi). But due to an already existing television deal, Belushi was unable to appear in the film and the script was altered to include Cab Blues (Joe Morton).
- Dedicated to: John Belushi (1949-1982), John Candy (1950-1994) and Cab Calloway (1907-1994), in loving memory.
- Joe Morton's character, Cabel (or "Cab"), is named in homage to Cab Calloway.
- A new Bluesmobile, a Ford LTD Crown Victoria, also a used police car, replaces the Dodge Monaco from the first film.
- Queen Moussette's character is based largely on voodoo priestess Marie Laveau.
- The band's original keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, was committed to Gilda Radner's one-woman show on Broadway and was unable to appear in the first film. He was replaced by actor-musician Murphy Dunne. However, Shaffer appears in Blues Brothers 2000 as Marco, Queen Moussette's aide. During the Funky Nassau number, Marco asks to cut in on keyboards, which Murph allows. This marks the first on-screen time that the Blues Brothers Band plays with their original keyboardist.
- Murph yields his position on keyboards in both Blues Brothers movies. First, to Ray Charles in the original, and to Paul Shaffer in this movie.
Some world record attempts are more unusual than others. ...
James Gem Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American film and television actor, and younger brother of the late John Belushi. ...
Joe Morton (born October 18, 1947, New York, New York, USA) is an African-American stage, television, and movie actor. ...
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an Emmy award winning American actor, comedian and singer most notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoons Animal House and The Blues Brothers. ...
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ...
Cab Calloway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907–November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. ...
The Blues Brothers and their Dodge Monaco The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan that was prominently featured in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers . ...
The Ford Crown Victoria is a fullsize car produced by the Ford Motor Company in the 1950s, and then again in the 1970s. ...
The Dodge Monaco was a fullsize automobile built and sold by the Dodge division of the Chrysler Corporation (now DaimlerChrysler) between 1965 to 1978 and 1990 to 1992. ...
Alleged portrait of Marie Laveau, which hangs in the Louisiana State Library in the Cabildo. ...
Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born Jewish-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer. ...
Gilda Radners Live From New York LP cover Gilda Susan Radner (28 June 1946 – 20 May 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live. ...
Murphy Dunne (b. ...
Ray Charles was the stage name of Raymond Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ...
Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born Jewish-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer. ...
Footnotes December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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