Music to Movies

11 months ago 05th Dec 14:13

It seems that today's musicians are not content with just having a musical career choosing instead to be a double threat by taking up acting, and this week Alicia Keys joins that list as she stars in The Secret Life of Bees. For some this has worked out rather well but for other it's been nothing short of a disaster.

We have the Beatles and Elvis Presley to blame and a string of others have followed behind so FemaleFirst decided to take a look at some of the great music to movie transitions and some that didn't work out so well.

Leading the Way

Will Smith has mixed music and movies for most of his career rising to fame as a rapper under the name the Fresh Prince in the late 1980s before cementing that fame in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air television show.

But with sci-fi movies Men in Black and Independence Day Will Smith has arrived as a big screen movie star.Since then he has become one of the most popular and successful film stars.

He is the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office. He also has had two Oscar nominations for Best Actor for his role in Ali and In The Pursuit of Happiness and could land a third for his new movie Seven Pounds.

Mark Wahlberg began his career as one of the original member of New Kids on the Block but not wanting to be part of their squeaky clean image left the band and began to record as Marky mark and the Funky Bunch.

After a stint modelling he moved into movies finding major success with Boogie Nights, Three Kings and The Italian Job.