The film was released in the United States on March 22, 2000. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. [49][50] Aaliyah purposely stayed away from reviews of the film to "make it easier on" herself, but she heard "that people were able to get into me, which is what I wanted. Aaliyah was an amazingly talented American R&B singer, musician, dancer, and actress who became popular as a child. [90], As her albums progressed, writers felt that Aaliyah matured, calling her progress a "near-flawless declaration of strength and independence". At the same time, Hollywood was courting talent from a thriving Hong Kong film industry. On December 14, 2021, it was announced that a new single would be released by Aaliyah, featuring The Weeknd. [178] The album was reported to include 16 unreleased songs and have contributions from Aaliyah's longtime collaborators Timbaland and Missy Elliott, among others. at the annual Christmas in Washington television special. 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Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. MTV host Ananda Lewis once described it, gleefully, as a perfect marriage of East and West flying kicks, furious fights, vicious wars, and a bangin hip-hop soundtrack. It was a summary that reflected certain reductive cultural shorthands fueling Hollywood: martial arts for Asians and hip-hop for Black Americans. The documentary, by Pogus Caesar, contained previously unseen footage shot of her career beginnings in 1995 when she was appearing in the Netherlands. Rose in a Concrete World (J Dub Remix) JOE. [61] The first single from the album, "We Need a Resolution", peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. [52], In addition to acting, Aaliyah served as an executive producer of the film's soundtrack, for which she contributed four songs. [118], Jamie Foster Brown in the 1994 issue of Sister 2 Sister wrote that "R. Kelly told me that he and Aaliyah got together, and it was just magic." The marriage was annulled by her parents in February 1995, but the pair denied the allegations, saying that neither was married and that the certificate was a forgery. [123], Aaliyah admitted in court documents that she had lied about her age. [3] She started performing at weddings, church choir, and charity events. [4][6][7] Her name is the feminine form of the Arabic "Ali", meaning "highest, most exalted one, the best. Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. [40] During this time, Aaliyah participated in the Children's Benefit Concert, a charity concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. 2 at the U.S. box office, behind Erin Brockovich. I think it's very important to have an education, and even more important to have something to fall back on." It was produced by Noah "40" Shebib and features Canadian rapper Drake. Spike Lee regulars Delroy Lindo and Isaiah Washington were tapped as ODay patriarch Isaak and his scheming No. Find out why they didnt kiss and more about the film, below. When Han lands a decisive blow on Kais head in the flame-drenched finale, the camera rushes forward, exalting his shattered spine with clinical precision. [164], Immediately after Aaliyah's death, there was uncertainty over whether the music video for "Rock the Boat" would ever air. [158], Aaliyah's private funeral Mass was held on August 31, 2001, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan, following a procession from the Frank E. 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[128] In 2019, Damon Dash revealed to Hip Hop Motivation that Aaliyah did not even speak of her relationship with Kelly in private; he tried multiple times to discuss it with her, but she would only say that Kelly was a "bad man". [16] The only time she had a hand in writing is on the song "Death of a Playa" from the "Hot Like Fire" single (1997). The circumstances surrounding this last video were really strange because my mother had eye surgery and couldn't fly. Those people were invisible to me." At this point Lis English skills were nonexistent, Bartkowiak notes. B.G. Few Black female artists at the time had so successfully broached the mainstream; shades of Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard seemed to color Aaliyahs Hollywood breakthrough, and with it the promise of comparable superstardom. We had to make it more interesting, but there was never a political mandate. Maybe thats why the hip-hop kung fu movie is best remembered as a short-lived fancy rather than the palpable cultural phenomenon it felt like to an adolescent me. She described the relationship between her and Kelly as "rather close. Jet Li charged with stalking the real Aaliyah: Annie Mesquitta-Jackson since she starred with Li in "Romeo Must Die" Dana Haughton is not registered yet as And I went to Australia to visit some friends. [29] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic felt that the album had its "share of filler", but described the singles as "slyly seductive". Corey Yeun, the renowned Hong Kong director and choreographer, signed on to direct Romeos fight scenes. These include Michael Jackson,[95] Stevie Wonder,[96] Sade,[97] Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails,[97] Korn,[98] Donnie Hathaway,[99] Johnny Mathis,[96] Janet Jackson,[95] Whitney Houston,[100] and Barbra Streisand. "I've been hearing about Robert and Aaliyah for a whilethat she was pregnant. Aaliyah Dana Haughton was 11 years old when she . [253] In 2012, VH1 ranked her number 48 on their "Greatest Women in Music". 2. In the films closing scene, our Romeo and Juliet dont die, but they dont kiss either. After completing Romeo Must Die, Aaliyah filmed her role in Queen of the Damned, and released, in 2001, her third and final album Aaliyah, which topped the Billboard 200. [245] Also during 2001, the United States Social Security Administration ranked the name Aaliyah as one of the 100 most popular names for newborn girls. Romeo Must Die (2000) Official Trailer - Aaliyah, Jet Li Action Movie HD. [247] Also, in 2003 in memory of Aaliyah, the Entertainment Industry Foundation created the Aaliyah Memorial Fund to donate money raised to charities she supported. Romeo Must Die is a 2000 American action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak in his directorial debut, and also fight choreography by Corey Yuen, and starring Jet Li and Aaliyah. [32][45] Aaliyah performed the song at the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony, becoming the youngest singer to perform at the event. [12] As a child, Aaliyah traveled with Knight and worked with an agent in New York to audition for commercials and television programs, including Family Matters; she appeared on Star Search at age ten. Rollin' Raw. The singer boarded a 10-seat twin-engine Cessna 402B private jet destined for Opa-Locka, Florida. So many of the films of this era are riddled with cultural inaccuracies, racial biases, and the overrepresentation of white creatives above and below the line. I need the songs to reflect me in one way or another". John Woo made his American debut in 1993, directing Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, and in 1995 Rumble in the Bronx became the first Jackie Chan movie to receive wide theatrical release in North America. 28 Feb 2023 05:39:16 1:38:50. Again, she was nominated for a Grammy, this time for the song "Try Again" off the movie's soundtrack, for which she was executive producer. Romeo Must Died - Try Again (Aaliyah) Seamus Shade. Her funeral was held on Friday August 31st in New York, and 22 white doves were flown to celebrate each year of her life. Eventually, Aaliyah was released five years after One in a Million on July 17, 2001,[3] and it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 187,000 copies in its first week. 71 '50 Greatest Women of the Video Era', "Best of the 2000s Artists of the Decade", "Decade End Charts Billboard 200 Albums", "The Top 50 R&B / Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years", "NME's 100 Most Influential Artists: 50 1", "Hot 100 Turns 60! "[8], When she was growing up, Aaliyah attended Detroit schools and believed she was well-liked, but got teased for her short stature. 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[89] Her songs "gracefully walk a line between commerciality and experimentation". In 2000, Aaliyah appeared in her first film, Romeo Must Die. [184], In September 2015, Aaliyah by Xyrena, an official tribute fragrance, was announced. [188] The Aaliyah for Mac collection was released on June 20 online and June 21 in stores; along with the MAC collection, MAC and i-D Magazine partnered up to release a short film titled "A-Z of Aaliyah" which coincided with the launch. You ask yourself maybe we could have stopped it. . It also made history by being the first song to reach the top position just from airplay. 721 Smith Rd. [22] The album went on to sell 3 million copies in the US[23] and over eight million copies worldwide. [181] Soon after, Timbaland apologized to Chris Brown over his remarks, which he explained were made due to Aaliyah and her death being a "very sensitive subject". [223] She explained her choice to withdraw from the film in videos on Instagram. Swung On (feat. [191] Four days later, Aaliyah's family announced that they were in talks with record companies to discuss the future of her discography, with a view of making it available for download and streaming. [42] During her campaign with Tommy Hilfiger, the company sold over 2,400 pairs of the red, white and blue baggy jeans she wore in their advertisements. [217] Erika Ramirez, an associate editor of Billboard, said at the time of Aaliyah's career "there weren't many artists using the kind of soft vocals the ways she was using it, and now you see a lot of artists doing that and finding success". "[156] The report indicated that the pilot was not approved to fly the plane. In one scene Trish takes Han to the club on a fact-finding mission and leads him to the dance floor in a bold display of affection. Aaliyah Romeo Must Die Behind The Scenes - YouTube In honor of Romeo Must Die turning 20 years old here is behind the scenes of the video. [64] Promotional posters for Aaliyah that had been put up in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles became makeshift memorials for grieving fans. "[127] Kelly later said that Aaliyah had opportunities to address their relationship after they separated professionally but chose not to. She will always live in our hearts. Perhaps this was inevitable for a movie about Black and Asian gangsters that had no voices of color in writing and producing roles, a movie that sees Black and Asian people through the shallow focus of their respective subcultures. Her brother Rashad stated that the filming of "Rock the Boat" was the only time her family was not present during a video shoot. The designated airplane was smaller than the Cessna 404 on which they had originally arrived, but the whole party and all the equipment were accommodated on board. [175], In March 2012, music producer Jeffrey "J-Dub" Walker announced on his Twitter account that a song "Steady Ground", which he produced for Aaliyah's third album, would be included in the forthcoming posthumous Aaliyah album. Casting director Lora Kennedy remembers how naturally Aaliyah slipped into character: She just blew us away. Shakespeare has been manhandled in countless modern-dress retreads, but I was looking forward to "Romeo Must Die,'' billed as a war between Asian and African-American families, based on "Romeo and Juliet.'' After "China Girl'' (1987), which sets the story in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown, and "Romeo + Juliet" (1996), which has a war between modern gangsters in a kind of CalMex strip . [89] Reviewing her album, British publication NME felt that Aaliyah's "radical" third album was "intended to consolidate her position as U.S. R&B's most experimental artist". Jenna Ortega Will Dance, Dance, Dance With the Weeknd. Aaliyah started in music early on, performing in choirs. Aaliyah played the title role of Akasha, in the supernatural adventure based on the third novel in the Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The song appears on Brown's sixth studio album, X. The soundtrack features Aaliyah's smash hit "Try Again," her DMX collaboration "Come Back In One. But today, I cant think of Romeo Must Die without thinking of Aaliyah and her catchy Grammy-nominated single Try Again, the lead single on the movies soundtrack, her whispered, sultry vocals overlaying its propulsive synth. The 22-year-old hip-pop star, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but grew up on Detroit's west side, had been filming a video for the next single off her album. Plot summary In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. At the age of 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. That was a whole other situation, a whole other time, it was a whole other thing, and I'm sure that people also know that. [185] In November 2015, Timbaland teased that he was working on a new mixtape; a month later on December 16, he revealed the mixtape title, cover, and track listing which included Aaliyah. [216] The publication also mentioned that the forward-thinking music Aaliyah made with Timbaland and the experimental music being made by many underground alternative artists are "somewhat cut from the same cloth". [172] In August of the following year, luxury fashion house Dior donated profits from sales in honor of Aaliyah. "[88] Sanneh asserted that by the time of her death in 2001, Aaliyah "had recorded some of the most innovative and influential pop songs of the last five years. They initially experimented with it for a single fight scene with Jet Li and tested it in front of an American audience, which gave an overwhelmingly positive response, before usi Brown later added "at 15, you have all those hormones and no brains attached to them". Romeo Must Die is a 2000 American action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak in his directorial debut, and also fight choreography by Corey Yuen. In May 1997, she filed suit in Cook County seeking to have all records of the marriage expunged because she was not old enough under state law to get married without her parents' consent. [121] Smith also said he was "not proud" of his role in facilitating their marriage. Picture: PA. 39 images. In fact, he says Silver invested some of his producing fee into making it happen. Bartkowiak recalls Warner Brothers eyeing Janet Jackson for the role of Trish ODay, but when Aaliyah emerged as a possibility, she was the only actress invited to do a screen test. Aaliyah. The "Romeo Must Die" actress . It's a very emotional process to do. Maybe Jennifer would have more support if she werent wrong so often. "Try Again" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and remains . [249] In December 2009, Billboard magazine ranked Aaliyah at number 70 on its Top Artists of the Decade,[250] while her album Aaliyah was ranked at number 181 on the magazine's Top 200 Albums of the Decade. [204] While the I Care 4 U album failed to rechart, Ultimate Aaliyah peaked at number 8 on the UK R&B Albums Chart Top 40[205] and charted for the first time in the US at number 41 on the Billboard 200.[206]. It performed well at the box office, drawing over $90 million from a $25 million budget. [146] They had a flight scheduled the next day, but with filming finishing early, Aaliyah and her entourage were eager to return to the US and decided to leave immediately. [44] She also contributed to the soundtrack album for the animated film Anastasia, performing a cover version of "Journey to the Past" that earned songwriters Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. . That really bothered her because she always traveled. [11][12] She attended a Catholic school, Gesu Elementary, where in first grade she was cast in the stage play Annie, which inspired her to become an entertainer. Romeo Must Die has grown to become a fan-favorite and cult classic in the decades after its release. Aaliyah noted in a 2001 interview with Vibe that she and Li had filmed at least one love scene but suggested that Warner Bros. simply decided not to include it. From the perspective of todays CGI-saturated filmmaking, Romeos special effects and stunt work seem kitschy, but its the films flagrant dismissal of realism that I find so delightful. So it was not really a decision by the powers that be to prevent an inter-racial relationship from happening on screen. [8], After Hankerson signed a distribution deal with Jive Records, he signed Aaliyah to his Blackground Records label at the age of 12. [243][244], At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Aaliyah was honored by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Ginuwine and her brother, Rashad, who all paid tribute to her. [232][233], Aaliyah has sold 8.1 million albums in the United States and an estimated 24 to 32 million albums worldwide. [23], After completing Romeo Must Die, Aaliyah began to work on her second film, Queen of the Damned. While mainstream (white) audiences grew tired of the genre by mid-decade, young people of color didnt move on so easily. [202] In celebration of the reissue, Blackground released an animated commercial titled "It's Been A Long Time" (in a similar style to the album's original 2001 commercial), directed by Takahiro Tanaka, showing Aaliyah resurrecting her music from out of a large underground vault. Perhaps for good reason. "[57] Aaliyah enjoyed balancing her singing and acting careers. Yet in a contemporary landscape that repeatedly approaches cultural diversity in cinematic storytelling by exploiting the traumas of people of color, or by meeting superficial markers of representation, theres something about the intrepid and unhinged silliness of a movie like Romeo Must Die a movie that didnt care to impart a profound, industry-approved sociopolitical message that feels lacking today. Some of them were badly burned. [95], According to director Paul Hunter from day one, "Aaliyah wanted her videos to stand out from clips by other R&B singers". The film brought to life one of the . [147] The plane crashed and caught fire shortly after takeoff, about 200 feet (60m) from the end of the runway. Its not much of a romance, to be perfectly honest, but as Han Sing and Trish ODay, Li and Aaliyah are coy and cool. [169] In December 2002, a collection of previously unreleased material was released as Aaliyah's first posthumous album, I Care 4 U. [21][22] To date the album has sold over 3 million copies in the US. We have nothing but love and respect for her memory and for her loved ones left behind still grieving her loss. [3] The single "At Your Best (You Are Love)" was criticized by Billboard for being out of place on the album and for its length. In October 2001, Rashad said: "It really boggles everyone [that] from Day One, every single video she ever shot there's always been myself or my mother or my father there. [93] Ernest Hardy of Rolling Stone felt that Aaliyah was displaying stronger technique, giving her best vocal performances. I guess they thought it was a little sweeter and left more to the imagination, she told the interviewer, who noted that the 16-year age difference between them may have also been a factor in the decision. [22], "More than a Woman" and "I Care 4 U" were released as posthumous singles and peaked within the top 25 of the Billboard Hot 100. Instead, the most viewers get to see is a little teasing and a few suggestive looks before the movie ends with them sharing a hug and walking away from the camera. "[131] In 2016, Kelly said that he was as in love with Aaliyah as he was with "anybody else. [16][13][39] The same year, she began her acting career, playing herself in the police drama television series New York Undercover. [3][19] Aaliyah's debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, was released under her mononym "Aaliyah", by Jive and Blackground Records on May 24, 1994; it debuted at number 24 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 38,000 copies in its first week. Sept. 3, the Romeo Must Die and . [31] Additionally, she released "The Thing I Like" as part of the soundtrack to the 1994 film A Low Down Dirty Shame. But center stage were two Hollywood newcomers: Chinese-born Singaporean martial-artist extraordinaire Jet Li and pop sensation Aaliyah, the night's Romeo and Juliet. No ego, no nervousness, no manipulation. Meanwhile Han, a former Hong Kong cop whos taken the fall for his fathers misdeeds and gone to prison, breaks out and travels to California to throw himself in the middle of it all again. From 2000 onward, moviegoers were freshly enamored with the martial-arts offerings of Li and Jackie Chan, with exotic historical epics (The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha), and with the magic of wuxia films (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), yet in many ways, those investments have faded out of the mainstream. Romeo Must Die is an action film that is loosely based on Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. [163], Aaliyah's brother Rashad delivered the eulogy and described his sister as giving him strength: "Aaliyah, you left, but I'll see you always next to me and I can see you smiling through the sunshine. "[117] In December 1994, Aaliyah told the Chicago Sun-Times that whenever she was asked about being married to Kelly, she urged them not to believe "all that mess" and that she and Kelly were "close" and "people took it the wrong way". 3. There's always gonna be that question of why. [85] Of her role in crafting her music, Aaliyah said, "I like to have the final say but I was trained as a singer, actress and dancer, the interpreter, bringing other people's words to life. Farley said Aaliyah responded with a "firm, frosty 'no'" to both questions. The album will feature Drake, Snoop Dogg, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown, Future and use previously unreleased vocals from before Aaliyah's passing. [125], Aaliyah was known to avoid answering questions about Kelly after the professional split. [107] In 1998, she hired a personal trainer to keep in shape, and exercised five days a week and ate diet foods. Jet Li charged with stalking the real Aaliyah: Annie Mesquitta-Jackson since she starred with Li in "Romeo Must Die" Dana Haughton is not registered yet as In one deliciously absurd scene, Han joins a football game against a hefty group of ODay minions, who vengefully pile on their rival. Aaliyah at the Premiere of Romeo Must Die (RARE) Junkbowling. The majority of kids supported me, which was wonderful. The singer, born Aaliyah Haughton, was just 22 years old and in the midst of shooting a music video for her third and final self . Later, when Anthony Andersons Maurice prepares to lay out Han in an altercation taunting him as Dim Sum the antagonist is shocked when hes forced to crawl away in his boxers. 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