THE GREATEST SHOWMAN : Box Office

[jo]

Instead of reducing the screen count further, FOX has actually increased the screen count from 478 to 764 by Friday!

Not sure if I have heard of this kind of move, for a movie that is now on its 101th day of release in the USA! Unless the movie was on a rolling release basis, especially for those who enjoyed Oscar buzz.


As of Friday ( March 30), an ESTIMATE of box office results ( Foreign figures are as of March 27) --

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $171,629,190 ( 42.0%)
Foreign: $236,606,859 (58.0%)

Worldwide: $408,236,049

Where is the demand coming from ?

*those who want sing-along screenings?

*those who missed the movie in a cinema and bought the DIGITAL RELEASE but now want to see the movie on a BIG SCREEN?

*those who still want to repeat the viewing screenings?


*Or is this temporary for Easter Weekend (another major time for a shared family event)?

[jo]

Estimate as of April 1, 2018, per Box Office Mojo --

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $172,051,190 (41.5%)
Foreign: $242,100,947 (58.5%)

Worldwide: $414,152,137

EDIT: Final Figures

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $172,069,900 (41.6%)
Foreign: $241,989,249 (58.4%)

Worldwide: $414,059,149

[jo]

The Greatest Showman is having a phenomenal run, movie and soundtrack album, in the UK.

Here's a tweet report by The Sun on the phenomenon.

Here's the actual article --

www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/5935597/how-the-greatest-showman-became-a-blockbuster-phenomenon-after-being-panned-by-critics/

THE SHOW MUST GO WON How The Greatest Showman became a blockbuster phenomenon after being panned by critics
A crazy army of devotees have transformed Hugh Jackman’s latest film from a Christmas turkey into one of Hollywood’s wildest successes

Review
By Mike Ridley
30th March 2018, 1:17 am


IT could have been a rock concert. Fans in fancy costumes were dancing in the aisles as music blared from the stage.
On a wet evening in a Berkshire cinema I’d joined the crazy army of devotees who have transformed Hugh Jackman’s latest film from a Christmas turkey into one of Hollywood’s wildest successes


The Greatest Showman, the musical story of 19th Century American circus promoter PT Barnum, opened on Boxing Day to terrible reviews.

But three months later, the movie is still showing in cinemas all over Britain — and is even set to break box office records.

Fans are returning time and again to lap up the story of how Barnum made his fortune from a show featuring 3ft 3in dwarf Tom Thumb, various giants and a bearded woman.

And it has turned the movie into a monster hit — the biggest box office phenomenon for years. Some cinema-goers have seen it dozens of times.


Mike Ridley set out to find out what’s made it into a blockbuster phenomenon


Normally films only show in ­cinemas for four to five weeks but The Greatest Showman’s remarkable run has already seen off ­blockbusters including Oscar winner Darkest Hour and even Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The secret of its amazing success is its soundtrack — nine brilliant songs which are addictive enough to bring fans back time and again to hear them — and join in.

Stuart Crane, Head of Film at the Cineworld cinema chain, says: “We have customers who have seen it more than 20 times. One has even watched it 25 times.”

Hugh Jackman’s latest film opened as a Christmas turkey but has turned into a monster hit
On Twitter last night superfan Christopher Goodall claimed to have seen it 26 times, and joked: “Unfortunately my gas and electric were shut off due to this addiction so I had to burn the tickets for warmth!”

Canny bosses at Odeon, Cineworld and London’s Prince Charles cinemas have been holding packed-out sing-along nights.
So I spent an evening at the flicks to find out why this musical, with songs by Oscar-winning La La Land writers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, is so wildly popular. And inspired by the film’s ­frenzied fans, I clearly had to dress up for the occasion.

Wandering into the foyer in my top hat, tails and breeches, I felt out of place — until I met Michael Laverick, 25, who was also sporting a colourful Barnum outfit.

The musical is the story of 19th Century American circus promoter PT Barnum


And some fans have seen it 20 – 25 times, the Head of Film at Cineworld tells Mike Ridley
He has already seen The Greatest Showman an impressive 17 times — including six sing-along sessions, where the song lyrics are ­projected on to the screen and viewers dance in the aisles.

Michael, from Bracknell, Berks, says: “It’s like an addiction. It’s a fun ­family film. I defy anyone who sees it once not to want to go again.

“I don’t think I’ve seen one person come out of a screening looking unhappy. Some critics who panned the film said there was too much singing — but in my opinion you can’t have enough singing in a musical.

“I was disappointed the soundtrack didn’t win an Oscar but the track This Is Me did get a Golden Globe for best original song.



Fans lap up the story of how Barnum made his fortune from a show featuring 3ft 3in dwarf Tom Thumb, giants and a bearded lady

“The fact that I’ve been 17 times proves you’ll never get bored.
“I want to have seen it at least 20 times before it leaves the cinema.”

But that might be a while yet, according to experts who predict The Greatest Showman, which also stars Zac Efron, Michelle ­Williams and Rebecca Ferguson, might be the first film to stay in British ­cinemas until its DVD launch date, May 14.

Cineworld’s Stuart Crane says: “I think there is every chance it will keep going until the DVD launch. In 19 years in ­cinema I’ve never known a film like it. It was taking as much money in the eighth and ninth week as it was when it opened.”



The box office hit also stars Zac Efron – pictured, Michelle ­Williams and Rebecca Ferguson
Back at the cinema, I was ­beginning to understand the furore.

Bad reviews by critics — apart from The Sun’s Jamie East — and the fact that I’d hated Jackman in Les ­Miserables, had kept me away.

But as I danced along to the great songs that pack the story from the very start, I too was hooked.
And the moment Jackman pulled on his waistcoat and red jacket, rolled Barnum’s famous top hat up his arm and on to his head, I knew why the fans believe Showman is THE greatest musical ever.


Audiences are hooked on the brilliant soundtrack – that’s the secret of the film’s amazing success

Those fans have propelled its soundtrack to the top of the album chart, where it has stayed for an incredible 11 weeks — seeing off Adele and Ed Sheeran.

If George Ezra’s new album does not knock The Greatest Showman off top spot today, it could go on to become the longest-running film album since Grease, which stayed at No1 for 13 weeks in 1978.

And The Greatest Showman’s most popular song, This Is Me, spent nine weeks in the singles Top 10, reaching No3 on February 22 — eight weeks after its release. Remarkably, as word of mouth spread, box office takings were up in the film’s second and third weeks.

Until a couple of weeks ago The Greatest Showman was taking £1million each weekend in UK cinemas.


Fans have propelled the soundtrack to the top of the album chart, where it has seen off Adele and Ed Sheeran
Les Miserables took £41.7million at the UK box office, and industry experts believe The Greatest ­Showman will outstrip it.
Cinemagoer Vicky Flack, 23, has seen Showman five times and has bought the album.

She says: “The album is doing really well because every single song in this musical is amazing and I ­genuinely love each one.

“You can’t help but want to get up and sing and dance.


The soundtrack has stayed on the top spot for an incredible 11 weeks and it could become the longest-running film album since Grease

“Normally with most musicals there’s one song that’s great and the rest are OK. My neighbours must be getting fed up with me playing the album over and over again.”

Even though the screening I attended was not an official sing-along session, the audience had started to sing from the moment Jackman and Efron belted out The Greatest Show.

Later, when Keala Settle as the Bearded Lady sings This Is Me — the song that captures the incredible journey of the unloved freaks who become stage heroes — everyone who has seen the film before sings along. Fan Michael says: “The songs are really catchy and even if there are people around me who don’t know the words I’ll just sing along.”


Vicky Flack (L), 23, has seen the film a few times and Michael Laverik (R), 25, has watched it 17 times

Mates Emma Witt, 32, Harriet Stott, 21, and Emma Wright, 28, who work in a toy factory, were on a girls’ night out at the cinema.

Emma Witt said: “We love the film because it is about people who don’t fit in being welcome. It’s a real ­message for our times and people love it because it’s a great story.”
Sun columnist Lorraine Kelly is also a massive fan.
She predicted — correctly, as I can confirm: “You will be whistling the tunes as you leave the cinema.”


Emma Mccarthy, 27, who has seen the film once before, brought her mother along to the musical hit too.

And as superfan Vicky looked ­forward to seeing The Greatest Showman for a sixth time she said: “The critics who said it was rubbish and a dud must have egg on their faces now.

“Hundreds of thousands of people like me have proved them wrong — we love it.”

As if to prove the fans’ predictions, at the end of the evening I wandered out of the cinema tunelessly singing the lyrics: “Watching it come true, it’s taking over you. Oh, this is the greatest show . . . ”

[jo]

Hopefully, the prediction of a theatrical run reaching May 14 ( when the home video is released) comes through.

But this does not take into account the open-air screenings ( with or without sing-alongs) that have been announced for the summer in the British Isles ( the UK and Ireland).

Interestingly, London was not part of the premiere schedules ( Hugh went only to the NYC/Mexico/Sydney/France/Japan premieres) when it usually shows unbelievable runs for movie musicals ( and it is famous for its musical theatre shows - one example was the OKLAHOMA! revival with HJ). Did Marketing think it was unnecessary? Also, on a side note, I was wondering why an appearance in China was not planned ( it opened just a little earlier than the Japan premiere).

On a personal note -- I have a Brit friend ( who also loves music and the theatre) who is celebrating her birthday on May 19. I thought a copy of the DVD (Region 2, via Amazon-uk) would make a wonderful way to greet her... On September 12, 2004, on a visit to the USA, she joined me and an American friend to see the closing show featuring The Greatest Showman, except he was called THE BOY FROM OZ then


Jo

[jo]

Posted on Fan Reactions earlier --

Apr 1, 2018 20:24:14 GMT -5 jo said:

A real gift to Jackman and movies fans!

Also a boon to FOX -- both movies together, LOGAN ($ 616 million) and GREATEST SHOWMAN ( $ 414 million as of now) have crossed the billion dollar mark ( $ 1.030 billion at this point)!


Jo

[jo]

It looks like the British Isles's love affair with THE GREATEST SHOWMAN will extend till the summer. A few summer open-air screenings have been announced, like this one --

[jo]

I could be wrong -- but it does look like THE GREATEST SHOWMAN will end its theatrical run by Thursday ( Friday is the changeover day for new movies) this coming week. The DVD/BluRay is due out on Tuesday.

www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=greatestshowman.htm


Hmm... maybe the Domestic Side ( USA/Canada) will complete its run at around $ 173 million!

Other countries like the UK and Japan may still continue their theatrical runs, although in the UK there are bookings for summer open-air screenings mostly at stately homes.


What a run!!

[jo]

Per Box Office Mojo : ESTIMATE as of April 8, 2018 --

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $172,961,432 (41.2%)
Foreign: $247,309,206 (58.8%)

Worldwide: $420,270,638

EDIT : FINAL figures

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $172,961,890 (41.2%)
Foreign: $247,309,206 (58.8%)

Worldwide: $420,271,096

From Deadline --

Also in Japan, Fox/Chernin’s The Greatest Showman has topped $40M as the Hugh Jackman musical dances towards $250M international.

Screen count on the Domestic side ( USA/Canada) is now down to 248, as the theatrical run likely winds down in the next few days. The BluRay/DVD is released on Tuesday ( April 10). Hopefully, the Domestic results crosses over to $ 173 million.

Comparative worldwide grosses for two other recent movie musicals : La La Land ($446 Million) and Les Miserables
($ 441 million)... Had the box office results been stronger in China (and maybe South Korea and a few other European countries), The Greatest Showman could have been in the $ 450-$475 million range. Both La La Land and Les Miserables almost reached $ 300 million in overseas receipts... Could it have been wrong scheduling or misdirected marketing?


Jo

[jo]

Look at this -- the late spring to late summer/early fall schedule of Open-Air screenings in the UK by one cinema distributor!

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN is the most widely-featured movie, especially during the latter part of the season.

www.thelunacinema.com/whats-on/#septembercal


There are 33 scheduled open-air screenings ( some with sing-along) from late May to early October -- in parks, castlegrounds, stately homes, even in racecourses!


One such screening --

www.leeds-live.co.uk/best-in-leeds/whats-on-news/theres-massive-outdoor-singalong-screening-14510438

[jo]

It looks like it is not yet end of the line for THE GREATEST SHOWMAN on the domestic side. Screen count has been reduced to 209! The ESTIMATE for worldwide gross is now closing in on $ 425 million!

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,295,475 ( 40.8%)
Foreign: $251,383,484 (59.2%)

Worldwide: $424,678,959

EDIT: Final

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,296,519 (40.8%)
Foreign: $251,461,951 (59.2%)

Worldwide: $424,758,470

On the domestic side -- with the release of the BluRay/DVD and onDemand and Rental options -- will it immediately kill the demand in cinemas? Or will Fox see an opportunity to tempt people to come back or see for the first time how good a theatrical screening is compared to home entertainment options? I would not be surprised if they did keep it on in cinemas to give those who now regret not seeing it on the big screen a chance to amend their ways

I also wonder why there is a lot of publicity now for the theatrical sing-along versions? Hmmm...


Jo

[jo]

Per Deadline --

The Greatest Showman (FOX): $1.7M intl weekend (13 markets, includes 4% increase in Oz); $251.4M intl cume

*It's still playing in 13 overseas markets!

*The increase in Australia is suprising -- maybe they are just releasing the sing-along version there. I wonder - is this a new strategy from Fox -- is it re-releasing or expanding release with a heavy intro of the sing-along version?

*Can Japan and the UK ( and maybe with Australia) still provide the numbers for the movie to reach the range of $ 255- $ 260 million from the international market? Those 3 countries have outdistanced all others very significantly in terms of performance at the box office and the album charts!


Jo

[jo]

Mike
@shawky1969


So #thegreatestshowman has spent an incredbile amount of time in the UK cinemas @cineworld @cinedidsbury have put it back on 4 more time slots.....

Think i will go see it for my 9th time.#impressive @realhughjackman @zacefron

[jo]

Better late than later ( on my part) reporting the analysis of VULTURE on the SHOWMAN'S leather-encased long legs

www.vulture.com/2018/02/the-sneaky-slow-burn-success-of-the-greatest-showman.html


Excerpts --

So what can other movies (or at the very least, their studio distributors and marketers) learn from Showman’s underdog path to the kingdom of sleeper hits? In a crowded multiplex marketplace, how can other films duplicate the movie’s success? In a word (perhaps Hollywood’s least favorite word): patience. Positioned as counter-programming to the winter movie season’s barrage of popcorn and prestige fare, Showman arrived in theaters as the cinematic version of neither fish nor fowl; what studio executives described internally as a “special movie.” But even after the bad reviews and lackluster opening, they continued to push the film, organizing “Sing-along” screenings — videoke-style events where lyrics to the songs were flashed onscreen and audience members joined in the performance. And that helped perpetuate word-of-mouth buzz.


More crucially, though, exit polls convinced execs not to give up on Showman even while moviegoers flocked to The Last Jedi and Jumanji. “You have to know your content. You have to be confident in having something that audiences will embrace,” Aronson says. “I liken it to a fine bottle of wine. You gotta let it breathe. If you do, the better it gets. But if you pour it all out, ‘Eh, it’s okay.’ Then it’s gone. Let it breathe; then you savor it.”

As a patient observer to the scene, I think it was not just the marketing constant support of the movie...but social media revelations about repeat patronage ( and it was not just "2 x" but reports of multiple-viewing) which gave a solid indication that people were falling in love, head over heels, with THE GREATEST SHOWMAN! It was also evident that the unexpected and steep rise to the top of the music charts was a very strong indication that the movie's music was helping to push the appeal of the movie in an extraordinary way!



Jo

[jo]

Just saw a movie on cable ("Their Finest" - about WW 2, as it happened in England) --

at the end, a middle-aged British woman told her female neighbor at the cinema ( whom she did not recognize was the scriptwriter), almost a little teary-eyed : " I have seen it 5 times! It is our picture!"

I wonder if many fans of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN had the same sense of kinship towards the movie

[jo]

ESTIMATE as of April 22, 2018 --

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,520,696 (40.6%)
Foreign: $254,124,510 (59.4%)

Worldwide: $427,645,206

Number of screens on the domestic side has been cut down to only 169.


EDIT : FINAL figures

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,524,478 (40.6%)
Foreign: $254,165,797 (59.4%)

Worldwide: $427,690,275

[jo]

Scott Mendelson of Forbes.com analyses the parallel success of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN and BLACK PANTHER...and how they compared with TITANIC.

www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/04/23/black-panther-and-greatest-showman-kept-spirit-of-james-camerons-titanic-alive/#4ccba1643c38

Excerpts --

And, yes, unless the movie of the moment is so overpowering in its "one-size-fits-all" appeal, think The Martian or Black Panther, there can be room for multiple biggies. Just this Christmas, with the caveat that Christmas is special due to the sheer legs offered by its two weeks of vacation days, we saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi earned $621 million while Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle earned $404m (from a $53.7m Wed-Sun debut) despite opening five days later. And there was still room for The Greatest Showman to become one of the leggiest wide openers of all time.


With mediocre reviews and not much in the way of buzz, The Greatest Showman's future didn't look bright after an $8.8 million Fri-Sun/$13.4m Wed-Sun debut weekend. But the film was catnip for families, musical nerds and folks who just wanted something both very wholesome and very different at the multiplex. It was a movie for adults which played perfectly for kids, which differentiates it from the usual "movie for kids that adults can enjoy" tentpole model. The Hugh Jackman/Zac Efron/Michelle Williams/Rebecca Ferguson/Zendaya live-action musical, a (somewhat fictionalized) P.T. Barnum biopic that played like a live-action remake of Illumination's Sing, opened soft but refused to die.

After going up by a record-crushing 76% in its second Fri-Sun frame, the flick dropped by proverbial pennies weekend after weekend just like Titanic did from that same launching pad 20 years ago. And now, despite being available on VOD for over a month and being on DVD/Blu-Ray for two weeks, The Greatest Showman is still leggier than Titanic 18 weekends into its run. The film has earned $173.5 million domestic from that $8.8m Fri-Sun cume, giving it an insane 19.715x weekend-to-final multiplier. Having earned just 5.07% of its domestic total via that $8.8m debut weekend, it is leggier than any wide release movie since (eventually) Titanic.


With a $173.5 million cume from its $8.8m Fri-Sun debut, it's the 16th-leggiest movie ever to open on more than 500 screens and the second-leggiest 500+ screen opener (behind Titanic) since Rain Man ($172m from a $7m debut on 1,248 screens on this very same weekend) back in 1988. Yes, there are some 500-1,000 screen openers that legged it a little better (Flashdance, Superman, Nuts, Tootsie, Fatal Attraction, Top Gun, 9 to 5, 10, Arthur, Crocodile Dundee, Out of Africa, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.), but nothing close to The Greatest Showman in terms of the number of screens on which it opened and certainly nothing of this nature in the last 20 years.


We can discuss why (the songs, the razzle-dazzle, the cheerful sentimentality, etc.), but Greatest Showman was a case of an unorthodox event movie. And we can discuss the reasons why Black Panther outgrossed The Avengers in North America (cultural specificity, the crowd-pleasing female supporting cast, the overall quality, the MCU brand, Killmonger's last monologue, etc.), but it was absolutely an event movie both by old standards (it's a big-budget MCU movie) and new standards (it was the event of a lifetime for generations of black moviegoers). Both crowdpleasing studio releases made their claim to being a modern day equivalent to the Kate Winslet/Leonardo DiCaprio boat drama.

20 years ago, the crushing success of Titanic, which claimed the domestic theatrical lives of Fallen, Dark City, Primary Colors, The Big Lebowski and so many others (#NeverAnAbsolution), still resonates as an all-encompassing worldwide cultural event, one that may be unmatched forever more. It made a then-unthinkable $600 million in domestic theaters and $1.8 billion worldwide, sans 3D or any of the PLF/IMAX/D-Box upcharges we now take for granted. And it topped the box office for over three months, dropping by glorified pennies at a time and existing as one last dance for old-school cinema before the tentpoles (the good ones and the bad ones) took over.


Black Panther and The Greatest Showman represent the best of both worlds. The former was a massive critically-acclaimed blockbuster that earned (relatively) unthinkable amounts of money here and worldwide (and, yeah, left some wounded would-be blockbusters in its wake). The latter was an old-school period piece drama that ensnared a passionate fanbase and whose heart went on and on and on. Both successes offer optimism in this Netflix-and-Chill era. We will never get another movie like Titanic in our lifetime. But the combined success of Black Panther and The Greatest Showman are as fitting a memorial as any for Titanic's 20 year anniversary.

[jo]

It was a movie for adults which played perfectly for kids, which differentiates it from the usual "movie for kids that adults can enjoy" tentpole model

While the movie was aimed and pitched as a family-friendly movie, the subtle distinction made by Mendelson above is the formula that worked unexpectedly and with tremendous success. We can verify this with the amount and kind of covers that the movie's musical score inspired...and by other stories that told of its appeal from toddlers to grandpas/grandmas! And the phenomenon was true not only in the USA -- the movie, with its winning musical score and its messages, appealed to a wide swatch in the overseas market. And in both the USA and overseas, there have been a number of professional artists who have readily used the songs for their recorded or live performances! Even reality TV musical shows such as American Idol and The Voice found contestants singing songs from the score to pitch their talent... Plus the amount of related merchandise ( from costumes to props) showed an extraordinary fascination with the characters of the movie.

I didn't monitor the success of Black Panther -- but did we see a similar form of fandom to The Greatest Showman?


Jo

[jo]

Remember last year's CinemaCon when Hugh presented publicity clips from THE GREATEST SHOWMAN and Fox used COME ALIVE for its ending presentation?


This comment from this year's CinemaCon from a movie press editor ( Playlist/Wrap/etc) --

[jo]

I don't know what Russ Fischer is talking about -- these tweets from last year, mainly from the movie press say otherwise ( thank goodness it is easy to go back to previous posts, so long as you can recall the classification) --

Twitter reports on the presentation of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN at CinemaCon 2017 --


Hugh Jackman came to the presentation!

Please read the tweets in reverse order --



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Jacob Tiranno‏ @jacobtiranno 36m
36 minutes ago

#TheGreatestShowman is gonna to be a fav this yr. Looks stunning and offers a Best Song contender. #Cinemacon #20thCenturyFox #CinemaCon2017

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Anne Thompson‏
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@akstanwyck 5m
5 minutes ago

Fox wows exhibitors with musical number at end of The Greatest Showman presentation: by far the best dog and pony show of #CinemaCon2017.

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JoBlo.com‏
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@joblocom 5m
5 minutes ago

Fox panel is now done. No updates on X-Men Universe stuff. #CinemaCon2017 fox

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JoBlo.com‏
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@joblocom 6m
6 minutes ago

Saw a strong, moving, and cool trailer for The Greatest Showman. Looks like, dare I say, a good show. #CinemaCon2017

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Caleb Williams‏ @knightgambit 6m
6 minutes ago

Great 20's musical coming out called The Greatest Showman starting Hugh Jackman #Fox #CinemaCon2017

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Dave McNary‏
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@variety_DMcNary 6m
6 minutes ago

Fox ends strong CinemaCon presentation with a stage full of dancers and a balloon drop #CinemaCon2017

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Sean P. Means‏ @moviecricket 6m
6 minutes ago

Fox finishes presentation with staffers getting on stage, and a balloon drop. Most energetic demo at the convention. #CinemaCon2017


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Winter Wonderland‏ @_Winter_wind 10m
10 minutes ago

Hugh Jackman winning exhibitors with class #CinemaCon2017 greatest showman

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Jacob Tiranno‏ @jacobtiranno 10m
10 minutes ago

#TheGreatestShowman has been 7 yrs in the making, & now to see a clip of the rags to riches story! #Cinemacon #20thCenturyFox #CinemaCon2017

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Sean P. Means‏ @moviecricket 10m
10 minutes ago

Jackman on songwriters: “Yes, I found them before ‘La La Land,’ not that I’m competitive or anything.” #CinemaCon2017

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Dave McNary‏
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@variety_DMcNary 12m
12 minutes ago

"A pop period piece of hyper-reality...seven years in the making" - @realhughjackman describing "The Greatest Showman" #CinemaCon2017

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Anne Thompson‏
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@akstanwyck 12m
12 minutes ago

Hugh Jackman plays PT Barnum in The Greatest Showman original Hollywood musical. #CinemaCon2017


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Sean P. Means @moviecricket
Jackman thanks exhibitors for supporting him on "Logan," and that character from the beginning of the "X-Men" franchise. #CinemaCon2017


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Sean P. Means‏ @moviecricket 14m
14 minutes ago

Jackman tells story of P.T. Barnum, “who saw spectacle where others saw absolutely nothing.” #CinemaCon2017


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Dave McNary‏
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@variety_DMcNary 14m
14 minutes ago


"I had to audition for the role against Chris Aronson" - @realhughjackman intros PT Barnum biopic "The Greatest Showman" #CinemaCon2017

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JoBlo.com‏
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@joblocom 14m
14 minutes ago

Jackman says he turned to Eastwood to tell him he was a big fan, etc., and Eastwood said: “You’re holdin' up the line, kid.” #CinemaCon2017

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Dave McNary‏
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@variety_DMcNary 16m
16 minutes ago

.@realhughjackman thanks exhibitors for supporting him as Wolverine from 2000's "X-Men" to "Logan" 'Who was here for ShoWest?'#CinemaCon2017

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Sean P. Means‏ @moviecricket 16m
16 minutes ago

Jackman: “There is not 1 person in this room who did not, at one point in their lives, love movies more than anything else.” #CinemaCon2017

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Sean P. Means‏ @moviecricket 17m
17 minutes ago

Jackman thanks exhibitors for supporting him on "Logan," and that character from the beginning of the "X-Men" franchise. #CinemaCon2017

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Santiago‏ @tiagoamota 17m
17 minutes ago

Hugh Jackman to talk The greatest showman on earth... #CinemaCon2017


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Caleb Williams‏ @knightgambit 18m
18 minutes ago

Hugh Jackman comes out on stage for The Greatest Showman #Fox #CinemaCon2017

More --

Another set of tweets --

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Jeff Sneider‏
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@theinsneider 31m
31 minutes ago

Pop period piece of a hyper-realized world. Does that indicate a MOULIN ROUGE vibe? We're about to find out...


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Jeff Sneider‏
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@theinsneider 32m
32 minutes ago

Hugh jokes that he had to beat out Fox exec Chris Aronson for the role of P.T. Barnum. Fox opened its presentation with Aronson dancing...

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Jeff Sneider‏
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@theinsneider 36m
36 minutes ago


Stacey Snider calls LOGAN star Hugh Jackman "our greatest showman." Jackman thanks his mum, who is in the audience.

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Jeff Sneider‏
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@theinsneider 37m
37 minutes ago

LA LA LAND/DEAR EVAN HANSEN duo handling music for THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, which has a gorgeous old-school, classic gold logo.





Yolanda Machado‏
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@sassymamainla 7m
7 minutes ago

The Greatest Showman, a musical abt the life of PT Barnum, looks amazing! Can the musical duo behind La La Land do it again? #CinemaCon2017



Lauren Cox‏
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#TheGreatestShowman trailer gave me chills. #ZacEfron tap dancing! #Zendaya flying through the air! #CinemaCon2017






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The Greatest Showman: big stagey period musical which may be an award contender. The music we heard is very good. #CinemaCon2017




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Chills watching the 1st trailer for "The Greatest Showman." Didn't have that much interest in it before but now I can't wait #CinemaCon2017

[jo]

The supreme irony is that another movie press writer for THE WRAP ( to which Russ Fisher is a contributor) actually thought very highly of the presentation at CinemaCon --

www.thewrap.com/hugh-jackmans-greatest-showman-footage-stuns-emotional-inclusive-musical-number/

Hugh Jackman’s ‘Greatest Showman’ Footage Stuns With Emotional, Inclusive Musical Number


CinemaCon 2017: 20th Century Fox closes a strong presentation with Wolverine’s passion project
Matt Donnelly | March 30, 2017 @ 11:38 AM
Last Updated: March 30, 2017 @ 4:28 PM


Seven years in the making, and five consecutive musical workshops later, Hugh Jackman looks like he has a bona fide hit with “The Greatest Showman.”

The triple-threat showed in person to the 20th Century Fox CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas to give a peek of his original musical based on the life and innovative work of P.T. Barnum — the man behind the game-changing Barnum & Bailey Circus.

“I did not have this part in the bag just because I was a producer, I had to audition. My biggest competition was Chris Aronson,” Jackman joked of the 20th Century Fox Domestic Distribution chief who opened the show with a dance number.


Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams star alongside Jackman in the rags-to-riches story — and Williams especially looked in her glory during a ballroom dance number with Jackman on a city rooftop.

Efron is back in his dancing shoes and head-over-heels for “Spider-Man: Homecoming’s” ingenue Zendaya, playing a shade closer to her glamorous real-life persona in dramatic gowns and full glam hair and makeup.


The script also has a big element of inclusiveness — Jackman’s Barnum recruits several circus performances of various sizes, afflictions and looks and makes them all stars. It has the empowering air of “American Horror Story: Freakshow” with none of the gross-out terror and doom.

It’s a pretty obvious winner, and well-earned labor of love for Jackman.

“The Greatest Showman” opens Christmas Day.

That is why I am sometimes cynical of the movie press. Did Mr. Fischer fall asleep during the 2017 presentation? Was he part of the "pre-hate" movie press brigade which was very negative to THE GREATEST SHOWMAN? Was he not aware that THE WRAP came away very positive from that presentation? Or did he just want to attract attention to his lame tweet? Hmmm....


Jo

[mamaleh]

All those tweets would indicate that the presentation at CinemaCon definitely did not "fall flat." Fischer was either predisposed to hate the movie or he was too busy trimming his beard to pay attention to the excitement on screen.

Ellen

[jo]

At same CinemaCon, SONY ( thru Tom Rothman) announced that JUMANJI 2 will be released on December 25, 2019!

Its twin release on December 20, 2017, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, has not announced anything as to its future, if any

Hoping the future plans will be the live adaptation


Jo

[jo]

Almost there ( to a worldwide gross of $ 430 million), but not quite --

ESTIMATE as of April 29, 2018, per Box Office Mojo

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,669,508 (40.4%)
Foreign: $256,059,483 (59.6%)

Worldwide: $429,728,991

Screen count on the domestic side down to 149.



EDIT: FINAL figures --

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,675,694 (40.4%)
Foreign: $256,059,263 (59.6%)

Worldwide: $429,734,957

2nd EDIT :

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $173,708,219 (40.5%) -- as of May 2, 2018
Foreign: $255,429,429 (59.5%) -- as of May 1, 2018

Worldwide: $429,137,648

[jo]

Maybe because people think that with the release of the Digital version plus the coming release of the discs, that the big screen version will soon leave their cinemas.

[hughmanity]

Apologies, i don't really know how to excerpt articles, but Forbes' Mendelson is still writing about TGS box office.  See the first and last paragraphs.


www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/04/29/box-office-rampage-tops-330m-super-troopers-2-plunges-76/#3ec17d14390a