Movies including "Newsies," "Ghost," "Big Fish," "Austin Powers," "Rocky," "The Goonies," and "Dave" are being developed as musicals, or have already hit the stage.
For although these rocky, shadowed landscapes are peopled with the ghosts and shades of an ancient civilisation, they are also curiously symbolic of present day tensions and tragedies".
The conservation group calls for urgent international action to protect these "ghost cats," which live some 3,000 meters above sea level in the rocky mountains of Central Asia.
A dry river bed, dotted with tall ghost gums, runs by the back fence below one of Alice Springs' famous red rocky hills.
If "Rocky the Musical" struck some as the dumbest movie-to-musical yet, following recent Broadway flops like "Ghost" and "Leap of Faith," "Rocky das Musical" held promise as the sort of testosterone-fueled event that can whip German audiences into a lather.
So he glides like a ghost between the hemlocks and maples and white birches and elms until he emerges at the rocky shoreline of a frozen pond.
But the incoherent, heart-tugging Rocky Balboa takes insanity to a whole new level that will only be surpassed when Stallone's brainchild finally comes back as a ghost in Rocky XIII: Even When It's Over, It Ain't Over.
