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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time.
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #425
Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:03pmThat stopped clocks are set to be the highest grossing movie musical of all time!
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #426
Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:07pmmeaning.. time to move on?
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #427
Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:09pmWell, definitely, but I was actually referencing the old adage, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #428
Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:20pm
OH. Now I get it. Sorry hon. It is only 3 minutes after 420 over here. 
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #429
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
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #430
Posted: 2/28/13 at 7:24pmExcept now it is 7.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #431
Posted: 3/4/13 at 3:44pmSo what are the territories it has not opened in yet?
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #432
Posted: 3/4/13 at 5:19pmI dunno. Look it up, copy & paste it and misinform us.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #433
Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:09pmI want it to come from you.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #434
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
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #435
Posted: 3/22/13 at 1:59pmI thought it was set.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #436
Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:00pmWhat?
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #437
Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:07pmI think PRS is referencing the OP's thread title.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #438
Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:11pmCan we move beyond the OP?
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #439
Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:14pmI was just answering your question.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #440
Posted: 3/22/13 at 2:15pmGot it.
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #441
Posted: 3/22/13 at 4:07pmHome Entertainment sales aren't figured into the theatrical box office grosses. They're tracked separately, separate marketing budgets, separate departments at the studios, etc.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #442
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
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #443
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.
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #445
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.
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #446
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.
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #447
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."
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Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #448
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.
Les Mis set to be highest grossing movie musical of all time. #449
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.
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