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'You Can Dance, You Can Jive, Having The Time of Your Life...'

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to overwhelming demand, Universal Pictures announced today that it will release a special sing-along edition of its worldwide smash hit movie musical "Mamma Mia!" in selected theaters nationwide, starting Friday, August 29, for a limited time. The movie phenomenon, based on the songs of iconic supergroup ABBA, has earned more than $320 million at the worldwide box office.

Audiences at these specially selected theaters are invited to bring friends and family to experience the smash hit movie musical in a whole new way by singing along to the songs they love. "Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition" will feature the lyrics to every musical number on the screen, and you are invited to sing and dance along. Join in on all your familiar favorites like "Dancing Queen," "S.O.S.," "Money, Money, Money," "Take a Chance on Me," "Lay All Your Love on Me," "Voulez-Vous" and all the others from the film!

Details on theaters and showtimes that will feature "Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition" will be coming soon. For the latest news, please visit http://www.mammamiamovie.com or your favorite ticketing site to make a destination visit to join in on the celebration.

Since its release in early July, "Mamma Mia!" has turned into an unprecedented worldwide phenomenon, breaking records across the world as the biggest opening of a musical in history. It has already become the fastest movie musical to reach $100 million at the U.S. box office and is now the highest grossing film of 2008 in the U.K.,Austria,Greece,Hungary,Norway andSweden. Within the next two weeks, the Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan-led musical romantic comedy will become the most successful film Universal has ever released in the U.K. The film still has more than 35 territories in which to open.

The music of the film has proved as much a draw as the film itself and brought resurgence to the world's favorite ABBA songs. Currently, the "Mamma Mia!" soundtrack is the No. 1 album on Billboard's Top 200 album chart. It is also the No. 1 album overall inCanada,Australia,Switzerland,Finland and Hungary.

"Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition" arrives in select theaters across the country on August 29, 2008.

About "MAMMA MIA!"

Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 170 cities and 8 languages around the world. Bringing the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences, Summer 2008 is the season for "Mamma Mia!"

The three women who created the worldwide smash stage hit -- global producer Judy Craymer, writer Catherine Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd -- repeat their roles in bringing this joyful, musical story to the big screen. The "Mamma Mia!" film is produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman.

Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper join Streep in this celebration of a mother, a daughter and three possible dads.

An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Streep) is about to let go of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends -- practical and no-nonsense Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski) -- from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own.

On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities.

About Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios (http://www.universalstudios.com). Universal Studios is part of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric, with 20% controlled by Vivendi.

SOURCE Universal Pictures

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