Les Miserables: One Thread More!

[DACrowe]

Congrats to Hugh, Anne and the film. Not sure it was a comedy, but it surely was the best musical of the year. Sorry, Rock of Ages.

I jest, I jest. Not really.

 

[AnneFan]

Anne won. Just brilliant.

Lovely victory speech.

Also a shout out to Hugh for winning his category!

 

[CaptainCanada]

Hathaway will be winning throughout the season, of course. Nobody has a prayer against DDL in direct competition, so I'm happy Jackman won his category.

 

[Earthland]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxcFMSuBSs

Hathaway clip. So lovely.

 

[Earthland]

And film's clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmN12dfw1_k

 

[Earthland]

One Estonian newspaper called "les Miserables" "the musical of TOM HARDY"

 

[sueb1863]

Les Miz won the most awards out of all the movies nominated, yay!!

Thrilled for Hugh since it'll very likely be his only award for the part. DDL or Bradley Cooper or just maybe Phoenix will win the Best Actor Oscar.

I wonder what would have happened if he'd actually pulled out of the movie as he was thinking of doing? Would they have shelved it or cast someone else?

 

[tek]

good on hugh. he may well lose to ddl at the oscars but he did what ddl could not do. do a musical justice. ddl was terrible in that musical he did. funny how he did not get the grilling like russell crowe did in les mis, and russell was far superior. media darling i guess. these award shows are not worth a squirt of piss anyway.

 

[Ultra Nolanite]

I watched it yesterday and all I could think of was: "IT'S JUST A LOAF OF BREAD !!!"

I take it I didn't catch the underlying themes.

 

[Kansiov]

... of course it has to be taken with a Dutch Angle.

 

[nite-owl]

I plan on seeing this on Thursday if the weather near mine is better.

 

[Drizzle]

One Estonian newspaper called "les Miserables" "the musical of TOM HARDY"

Bane as Javert.

 

[Pink Ranger]

One Estonian newspaper called "les Miserables" "the musical of TOM HARDY"

They should do Tess of the d'Urbervilles starring Tom Hardy. That newspaper would be so confused.

 

[Earthland]

I plan on seeing this on Thursday if the weather near mine is better.

Does going to cinema really depend on weather? I drove over 300 km to another town to see it Or well, my father did, but I paid for it, well over 100 EUR. There was a snow storm and it got quite dangerous

Well, it was worth the sacrifice.

 

[Tony Stark]

Les Miz won the most awards out of all the movies nominated, yay!!

Thrilled for Hugh since it'll very likely be his only award for the part. DDL or Bradley Cooper or just maybe Phoenix will win the Best Actor Oscar.

I wonder what would have happened if he'd actually pulled out of the movie as he was thinking of doing? Would they have shelved it or cast someone else?

I'm glad to see it get some recognition at the GG's because I think the only Oscars in store will be for art dirction, costume design, and such. I could be wrong but I think with Lincoln the deck will be stacked against Les Mis.

Still an extraodinary accomplishment.

 

[Earthland]

They should do Tess of the d'Urbervilles starring Tom Hardy. That newspaper would be so confused.

The same piece introduced us Kevin Kostner...

It's not much of a newspaper anyway, just an online tabloid where one of the main "heroes" is an ex-girlfriend of someone who appeared briefly on a stupid reality show years ago . All her facebook updates are posted as "news"

 

[nite-owl]

Does going to cinema really depend on weather? I drove over 300 km to another town to see it Or well, my father did, but I paid for it, well over 100 EUR. There was a snow storm and it got quite dangerous

Well, it was worth the sacrifice.

If it's snowing I'am not leaving the house.

 

[narrows101]

B.O. from boxoffice.com:

Les Miserables tacked on another $25.5 million from 2,432 locations in 22 territories for an overseas cume of $115.1 million. The global total is now $234.3 million.

Key stats from Universal:

In the UK, LES MIS was the No. 1 film in the market by a huge margin with 37% market share. The 3-day estimated gross is $13.4M (£8.3M) at 589 locations. The 3-day opening is Universal's biggest 3 ever in this market, the biggest for Working Title, the biggest opening for a musical and also for Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Tom Hooper. As a comparison, BRIDGET JONES: EDGE OF REASON was the previous highest grossing opening weekend for Universal and it grossed $13.2M (£7.1M). MAMMA MIA! opened with a 3-day gross of $10.4M (£5.6M).

In New Zealand, LES MIS opened No. 1 with $625K at 81 dates, which is the biggest opening ever for a musical in this market.

The Netherlands had an excellent opening at No. 2 with $632K at 114 dates, which is the second biggest musical opening behind MAMMA MIA!.

Holdovers are strong. In Japan, LES MIS held the No. 1 spot of the MPAA films for the fourth weekend in a row and dominated the box office with 51% market share. It grossed $3 million at 328 dates, -8% for a 24-day total of $31.8 million.

In Korea, LES MIS continued its amazing run, grossing $2.8 million at 408 dates, -34% for a 20-day total of $33.1million. The film was the biggest opening of all time for Universal in Korea.

Spain moved up to No. 2 in week 3 and grossed $1.3M at 332 dates, +22% over last weekend's holiday festivities and parades. The excellent 19-day total is $8.6 million.

Australia placed No. 5 in its third week with $2.3 million at 242 dates, -30% for an excellent 19-day total of $18.2 million.

We have 42 territories to open over the next few months. Next week, we open in Estonia, India, Indonesia, Norway, Philippines, South Africa and Sweden.

 

[DACrowe]

good on hugh. he may well lose to ddl at the oscars but he did what ddl could not do. do a musical justice. ddl was terrible in that musical he did. funny how he did not get the grilling like russell crowe did in les mis, and russell was far superior. media darling i guess. these award shows are not worth a squirt of piss anyway.

I'm pretty sure Nine, a mediocre show to begin with, got panned all the way around. Besides, as good as Les Mis is, what he did in Lincoln is purely amazing.

 

[Gold Samurai]

JGL averted a potential disaster.

 

[Bim]

I dunno, i'm thinking that Hugh could surprise and take this at the Academy Awards. I think they're both a-m-a-z-i-n-g performances, and i wouldnt be upset if either of them won.

 

[Earthland]

Thursday's screening is almost sold out in Tallinn (capital of Estonia). When I went at the end of the december, it was about 75 % full. They have actually "advance-screened" it almost every other day, so the "opening" isn't any big thing.... We're such a small market that doesn't have any impact, but I'm nevertheless interested if it's going to be popular here :P

I'm going to see it on Friday again, I think.

 

[Quasimod0]

I dunno, i'm thinking that Hugh could surprise and take this at the Academy Awards. I think they're both a-m-a-z-i-n-g performances, and i wouldnt be upset if either of them won.

Hugh deserves to, honestly

 

[X Knight]

glad that Hugh, Anne, and Les Mis won in their categories!!!

 

[Tony Stark]

I dunno, i'm thinking that Hugh could surprise and take this at the Academy Awards. I think they're both a-m-a-z-i-n-g performances, and i wouldnt be upset if either of them won.

I could see that under the pretense that Daniel already has won two Oscars for Best Actor, and they may want to give it to a new actor.