Hugh Jackman is The Greatest Showman on Earth

[CaptainWagner]

I finally saw this. The movie itself was "so-so" but you can tell how much commitment Jackman had to making this happens, he poured his heart into it. And the music and dance sequences were amazing.

 

[danoyse]

It’s getting an IMAX release this weekend! My theater has more showings of it this weekend than they did during Christmas week.

 

[Schlosser85]

I finally saw this. The movie itself was "so-so" but you can tell how much commitment Jackman had to making this happens, he poured his heart into it. And the music and dance sequences were amazing.

The whole cast dives right in and gives it their all. That's part of what makes the musical numbers so infectious, the cast's joyful enthusiasm.

 

[ComicChick]

i hope they go balls to the wall at the oscars when they perform

 

[search_4_truth]

Who would have thought so many people would still be talking about this movie over a week into February! It is still showing at every cinema in my city 4-5 times per day, and it is still #4 at the national box office. Still waiting for Thursday's results to come in, but it is highly likely that once those results come in, The Greatest Showman will already have crossed the $140 Million mark domestically, and it is predicted to still make at least $6 M this weekend. By next weekend, it should for sure pass La La Land's domestic total of $151.1 Million.

 

[JP]

Yeah it’s passing Mamma Mia! this weekend, and La La Land next weekend.

 

[search_4_truth]

Yes, indeed! It's official domestic box office numbers before this weekend's run starts: $140,135,870!

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Mendelson:

Even with Black Panther making history this weekend, there’s still time to check in on everyone’s favorite leggy circus smash. The Greatest Showman may have gone up against a massively successful MCU movie, but it still did its thing in its ninth weekend of release. The PT Barnum musical biopic earned another $5.1 million over the Fri-Sun frame and an estimated $6.3m over the holiday. That’s a 21% drop, which is the biggest weekend-to-weekend drop for this obscenely leggy movie thus far. It bleeds!

I imagine that Fox and Chermin aren’t too busted up about a shameful 21% drop in the ninth weekend of release, as the Hugh Jackman/Michelle Williams/Zac Efron/Rebecca Ferguson/Zendaya musical has now (as of Monday) earned $155.6 million in domestic grosses from a mere $8.8m Fri-Sun and $13.4m Wed-Sun debut weekend back during the week of Christmas. It passed the $151m domestic total of La La Land yesterday to become the biggest-grossing original, live-action musical in North America, although that Oscar-winning film’s $431m worldwide cume may be a bridge too far.

Sans inflation, Greatest Showman is the fourth-biggest live-action musical since 1974, behind Chicago ($170m in 2002), Grease ($188m, including reissues) and Beauty and the Beast ($504m last year). With inflation, it’s 15th and it may sneak into the top ten by the time it’s finished. For a look at inflation and a grim reminder of how many more movie tickets were sold back in the day, Robert Altman’s “flop” musical Popeye (with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall) earned $49m in 1980 which would be $170m in 2018 grosses.


But legs and multipliers aren’t necessarily mitigated by inflation, and that’s where this film’s real magic has been. The movie has now earned 17.68x its $8.8 million opening weekend and 11.61x its $13.4m Wed-Sun launch. In terms of Fri-Sun debuts, it is still leggier than Titanic, which had earned 12.99x its $28m Fri-Sun weekend by the end of its ninth weekend. Greatest Showman is now leggier than Ghostbusters and Home Alone and now sits as the eighth-leggiest somewhat wide release opener in history for movies that A) didn’t platform and B) had a full Fri-Sun opening weekend.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...r-yet-another-box-office-record/#78375fd83309

 

[LTuser]

I liked Hugh in the Prestige, and in the musical "Les Mis".. SO i am cautiously optimistic he can do good in this..

 

[search_4_truth]

This movie has now grossed more money domestically than La La Land and it still likely has a couple of weeks left in its run at the cinema.

 

[Schlosser85]

I actually enjoy him in this more than Les Mis.

 

[LTuser]

This movie has now grossed more money domestically than La La Land and it still likely has a couple of weeks left in its run at the cinema.

GOOD! Now lets see, will it get anywhere near the same # of oscar nods as LALA got..

 

[search_4_truth]

GOOD! Now lets see, will it get anywhere near the same # of oscar nods as LALA got..

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. The critics trashed The Greatest Showman, similarly to how they trashed Sound of Music in 1965, except because Sound of Music opened in March, the Academy had 10 months to be persuaded by the public reception of the movie, which was overwhelmingly positive, that it deserved Oscar nominations. Unlike Sound of Music, The Greatest Showman opened in December and so it was only eligible for the 2017 Oscars and the Academy never got to see how the movie became a hit - literally regarded as a classic - by millions upon millions of viewers in the public. Thus, The Greatest Showman only received 1 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. I've seen many people outraged by this, and have even seen petitions for Hugh Jackman to get an Oscar nomination, but unfortunately, nothing can be done. This movie will go down in history as one that critics and the media bashed, but the people loved and fought for to the point where it has pretty much become the "leggiest" underdog film in cinematic history.

That said, I personally disliked La La Land, and I've noticed many people who loved The Greatest Showman feel exactly the same way. It didn't deserve its accolades, in my honest opinion, and I am emphatic that The Greatest Showman has passed it at the domestic box office despite not having the Oscar buzz or critics or media on its side (in fact, they were all adamantly against it and yet people the people championed it).

 

[The Squirrel]

I saw it yesterday and enjoyed it. Bought the soundtrack. Will definitely pick up the blu-ray.

 

[Doug_Moore]

I enjoyed it. Too bad half the story was BS.

It was also cool to see Efron go back to his High School Music roots.

My only gripe is they might as well have played "This Is My Fight Song" for the "This Is Me" scene.

 

[Mysteryman]

I enjoyed it. Too bad half the story was BS.

It was also cool to see Efron go back to his High School Music roots.

My only gripe is they might as well have played "This Is My Fight Song" for the "This Is Me" scene.

Both are good songs.
My preference would be "This Is Me."

 

[LTuser]

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. The critics trashed The Greatest Showman, similarly to how they trashed Sound of Music in 1965, except because Sound of Music opened in March, the Academy had 10 months to be persuaded by the public reception of the movie, which was overwhelmingly positive, that it deserved Oscar nominations. Unlike Sound of Music, The Greatest Showman opened in December and so it was only eligible for the 2017 Oscars and the Academy never got to see how the movie became a hit - literally regarded as a classic - by millions upon millions of viewers in the public. Thus, The Greatest Showman only received 1 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. I've seen many people outraged by this, and have even seen petitions for Hugh Jackman to get an Oscar nomination, but unfortunately, nothing can be done. This movie wil

That is why i rarely give a hoot what the 'critics' say.. Cause imo BOX Office receipts show a better marker of how good a film is..

 

[Filmfan93]

That is why i rarely give a hoot what the 'critics' say.. Cause imo BOX Office receipts show a better marker of how good a film is..

Really? Transformers says hi.

 

[search_4_truth]

Really? Transformers says hi.

I see your point and normally would agree. I do think there is a major difference between the box office results of The Greatest Showman and movies like Transformers though. Transformers (the entire franchise) were not "leggy" films that had excellent word of mouth. They were the types of films that collect a massive amount of money at the box office in the first 2 weeks due to all the hype and because all the kids want to see it, and then there's a huge decline at the box office. In the case of The Greatest Showman, I do think its box office trajectory demonstrates that it is almost universally adored by the public as a good movie. Plus, its audience ratings were high on every site. It is even 8/10 on imdb, has a near perfect rating on Amazon and is praised in the reviews there by hundreds of people who have already pre-ordered the DVD, and its soundtrack was #1 on the Billboard charts for weeks and has gone Gold faster than any other movie soundtrack. It had a weak opening due to the critics and media, and now 9 weeks later, it is still #6 at the box office domestically even when having gone up against Star Wars, Jumanji, Pitch Perfect, Maze Runner, The Post, Peter Rabbit, Fifty Shades, Black Panther, etc. I think that's definitely saying something.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

From @ERCboxoffice this morning:

Standing ovation. Fox's THE GREATEST SHOWMAN finally bowed out of the Top 10 in its 12th week in theaters: $167M domestic, 20th-highest grossing movie released in 2017.

What a fantastic run.

 

[ComicChick]

Spoiler

walmart exclusive

 

[Schlosser85]

nice

 

[ComicChick]

im curious as to what the songbook looks like

 

[search_4_truth]

This movie is still playing at the cinema near my house. And yesterday's numbers just came in and now the domestic total is at $170 Million. It will pass Chicago's domestic total over the weekend. Worldwide, it's right around $400 Million so far, and it's doing incredibly well still in the U.K., Australia, and Japan.

 

[scarlet-witch]

With the opening it had, I never expected its legs to be like this. That's pretty awesome. My theater still has it too.