Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. - Page 18

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:03pm

That stopped clocks are set to be the highest grossing movie musical of all time!

[DAME]

Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:07pm

meaning.. time to move on?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:09pm

Well, definitely, but I was actually referencing the old adage, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

[DAME]

Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:20pm

OH. Now I get it. Sorry hon. It is only 3 minutes after 420 over here.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:21pm

Dame, it's always three minutes after 420 where you are!
Updated On: 2/28/13 at 07:21 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:24pm

Except now it is 7.

[theaternut]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 3:44pm

So what are the territories it has not opened in yet?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 5:19pm

I dunno. Look it up, copy & paste it and misinform us.

[theaternut]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:09pm

I want it to come from you.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 1:09pm

So.. will the dvd and blu ray sales push it thru? I don't see how. But maybe?
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lesmiserables2012.htm

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 1:59pm

I thought it was set.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:00pm

What?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:07pm

I think PRS is referencing the OP's thread title.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:11pm

Can we move beyond the OP?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:14pm

I was just answering your question.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:15pm

Got it.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/22/13 at 4:07pm

Home Entertainment sales aren't figured into the theatrical box office grosses. They're tracked separately, separate marketing budgets, separate departments at the studios, etc.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 3/25/13 at 1:15pm

Cameron Mackintosh talks about Taylor Swift's audition for the movie here. He seems to have nothing but nice things to say about her. Maybe she will do a movie with him one day. I think Ellen in 'Miss Saigon' would be a great role for her to play.

"Yes, yes - Taylor Swift! Wonderful - she was wonderful. A really sweet girl. Actually, I think she may have come in a couple of times, now that I think about it. She was hard-working and did wonderfully in the role. Again, as with all things like that, in the end - as always with that show - the chemistry of the trio is the most important thing to get. You can't cast any of them individually. In the end, the chemistry with Sam [Barks], Amanda [Seyfried] and Eddie [Redmayne] turned out to be the right chemistry for us and for the movie we were making.

They all worked out just exceptionally. But, to answer your question, though: yes, Taylor was a real trouper for putting herself through the whole process and doing as wonderfully as she did, along with a lot of other famous people. I have a lot of respect for her - for them all."

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/InDepth-InterView-Exclusive-Cameron-Mackintosh-Talks-LES-MISERABLES-Onstage-Onscreen-Plus-PHANTOM-OLIVER-MISS-SAIGON-BARNUM-More-20130325

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 3/25/13 at 8:35pm

Well, with all due (albeit marginal) seriousness, it's a shame when we have such high expectations for these things: LES MIZ, HAIRSPRAY, PRODUCERS, SWEENEY, PHANTOM, CHORUS LINE — I mean we're talking material that *should* be goldenly bulletproof. And yet somehow we always wind up disappointed because it's just too... hmm... Hollywood.

I'll admit, I'm not a big fan of LES MIZ. But I went to see it because of the cast, and I left thinking, "Okay, if Cecil B. DeMille had directed it, it probably would have looked a lot like this." It was *big* and *huge* and... well, somewhat empty.

Pity. I thnk I'll stick to the cinema of the imagination from now on.

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 5:22pm

love

[jo]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 9:58pm

Latest stats, according to BoxOfficeMojo, for Les Miserables --


Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic: $148,775,460 (34.1%)

Foreign: $287,000,000 (65.9%)

Worldwide: $435,775,460


The figures are very close to peaking.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 10:38pm

"Okay, if Cecil B. DeMille had directed it, it probably would have looked a lot like this."

I don't know. I think DeMille would have wanted to pull the camera out of the actors' noses and actually show a wide shot or two.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 7:36am

It did very nicely and made a good profit.

And now I keep reading this thread title as:

"Les Mis set to be the grossest movie musical of all time."

[Princeton Returns]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 7:47am

"I mean we're talking material that *should* be goldenly bulletproof. And yet somehow we always wind up disappointed because it's just too... hmm... Hollywood."

Id say the disappointment is because many fans of shows basically just want the stage version that they love, on film, ideally with their favourite cast members.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 8:13am

Perhaps, but I think the larger problem is that these producers and directors simply dont trust the material. It has to be "improved". And as a result, we get things like CHORUS LINE, in which the whole concept of the play is tossed out so we can focus on Zach. That's like rewriting CABARET and making it a show about the Emcee.

Or, God help us, it has to beA LOT BIGGER. Not just a lot, but A LOT. Case in point: NINE. Lovely show with a great score... and blown out of all proportion on the screen. Or even more heinously, HELLO DOLLY, which was absurdly overdone.

It's just sad, because these pathetic film adaptations are part of what creates what America Outside of New York thinks of Broadway and the products it creates.