| re: comparison with Greatest Showman | |
| Last Edit: jo 10:37 am EDT 10/03/21 | |
| Posted by: jo 10:24 am EDT 10/03/21 | |
| In reply to: 88% on Rotten Tomatoes - Teacher64 09:56 am EDT 10/03/21 | |
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| By the second weekend, The Greatest Showman started flexing its muscles...and continued for months. Its domestic take ( $ 174 M) was actually below its overseas results ($ 261 M). So the appeal was across borders, across ages and gender. Many publications took note of its phenomenal success not just at the box office but also at the charts ( it was 2018 worldwide best-selling album, overtaking even the pop music albums). I remember that New York Times, wanting to look further at the phenomenon , asked its readers to share the movie's appeal. They were immediately flooded with replies ( something like 1250). Forbes.com which initially did not think much of how the movie will appeal to audiences had to take back its initial judgment and wrote about it on its weekly trend at the box office. Another measure of its success was its home video performance in the USA, practically overtaking Star Wars at the very top for that year's sales. One major difference about the 2 movies is that The Greatest Showman was developed from the start as a movie musical while Dear Evan Hansen is a film adaptation of the stage musical ( not always a successful route). 2009 Oscars producers Lawrence Mark and Bill Condon had seen Hugh Jackman rehearsing for the Oscars hosting and suggested to him a Barnum film musical. HJ announced the project in 2009 and it took almost 8 years for it become a movie, a FOX studio project. Instrumental to its success was director Michael Gracey who worked hard with Pasek & Paul to develop the musical score, providing them with the themes he wanted to be translated musically-speaking ( you can see this on the Blu-Ray feature) and it took many workshops (actually involving Hugh and Broadway stars like Aaron Tveit & Sutton Foster at the start, Keala, etc ( you can see them in that clip of From Now On relased before the movie opened to general audiences). |
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| Link | https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1700234753/weekend/?ref_=bo_tt_gr#table |
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