Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. — Page 10

Someone tweeted an update about the box office performance in South Korea so far. It is actually leading the international receipts, per Box Office Mojo.

>RussellMarkRodrigues?@russell_mark
'Les Mis' is the highest grossing musical movie in Korea w/ $33mil.(4.5 mil tix sold). Congrats!! @RealHughJackman @LesMiserables<<<

It looks like Asia is responding very well. Japan is also showing very strong receipts. International receipts updated as of January 6, 2013, except for Spain which is Dec 30, 2012.


http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=lesmiserables2012.htm

Updated On: 1/12/13 at 02:24 AM

"Today’s overseas openings for Working Title/Universal’s Oscar-nominated Les Misérables pushes it past $200 million worldwide. Domestic grosses are currently at $109M and international grosses at $96.7M before it opens in four other territories this weekend: New Zealand, Netherlands, Cyprus and Vietnam. With tonight’s releases, Tom Hooper’s adaptedd musical is currently open in 22 international territories with 40 still to come over the next two months. Les Misérables had a record-shattering opening in the UK today, grossing an estimated $3.7M (£2.3M) for Friday alone. It is the #1 film in the marketplace by a huge margin with 46% market share. "

Nice.

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Gee I hope not. I see her playing a good Liza Minnelli though.

"Speaking on BBC Radio Four's Front Row radio show, the actress says, "It's a very sensitive project and there have been so many stories told about her life that we're really trying to get it right. So we're taking our time with it. I know it seems like it's sort of an endless process but it's very, very slow incremental steps. I had a meeting about it a couple of weeks ago and we're all very motivated."

Hathaway also opened up about the struggles of playing Garland on the big screen, adding, "I certainly don't sing like Judy Garland... But I think people might cry murder if they don't get to hear Judy's beloved voice so the talk is for me to sing but I don't know if that's exactly what will happen."

Mind you..this particular interview was before LM.

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Updated On: 1/13/13 at 01:22 PM

Estimated worldwide receipts for Les Miserables are now $ 238 million, as of January 13. And there are many foreign markets which have not opened.

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lesmiserables2012.htm

With its Golden Globe wins for Best Musical/Comedy, Hugh Jackman, and Anne Hathaway -- who knows how much the box receipts will be boosted!

Trust me, someone is in an editing room right now making sure trailers say "And now, the winner of 3 Golden Globe awards".

On it's way.

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The movie has it's flaws but in spite of them many people are enjoying the film and its obviously ( a) receiving great word-of-mouth and (b) getting repeat business....especially from the hard core Les Mis fans...and that's not a bad thing...it's cool seeing an entirely sung thru film really kicking ass at the box office. It's an unqualified success. No one can negate that.

I think the fact that the GG show is getting such good press may help, if only a little. Fey & Pohler were outstanding, and clips are being shown on morning cable shows.

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Les Mis still has yet to open in many other countries. I think it's entirely possible for it to beat out Mamma Mia's worldwide gross of $610 million.

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No one really thinks ticket sales (and prices) are the same thing as quality, do they? Is the argument "my love of this movie is justified by the amount of money it collects?"

I agree with this. If you put things into perspective a movie makes 600 million - yes it sold a helluva lot of tickets and got butt into those seats - but really, how many of those who brought a ticket truly enjoyed what they watched?

It would be very telling if there was a system to gauge this. Imagine a blockbuster movie with a total domestic take of say $144 million and only a fraction of those ticket buyers enjoyed it while the majority of them didn't care for it at all.

Updated On: 1/14/13 at 12:33 PM

Yeah but what you guys are really being is bitter sour pusses. Quality and what you thought of the film is just a matter of opinion. I think the Hobbit is a piece of boring crap.. but other people love it and it has made a lot of money. Despite of what you thought.. why are you so intent on diminishing the obvious success of this film?

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