The Greatest
Showman opens with an intricate, dazzling musical number featuring trapeze artists, fire breathers, dancers, lions, elephants, horses marching with feather plumes on their heads, and Hugh Jackman, resplendent in a red jacket and top hat, twirling his cane and belting the title tune.
The Greatest
Showman opens on December 20th.
With original music and lyrics from the Oscar and Tony - winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land and Dear Evan Hansen, respectively) and a script by Oscar - winner Bill Condon, The Greatest
Showman opens December 20th and also stars Zac Efron, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Kaela Settle.
Not exact matches
The film is holding off newcomers Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Pitch Perfect 3 and The Greatest
Showman, with the Johnson - led Jumanji targeting a $ 60 + million
opening over the four day weekend, and Pitch Perfect 3 and The Greatest
Showman looking to finish around $ 35 million and $ 16 million, respectively.
Movieexhibitor Sid Grauman, one of Hollywood's best known and most creative
showmen,
opened The Chinese in 1927 and launched the handprints - footprints ceremony a year later.
From his
opening, imperfect narration, it's clear Stark is stumbling and without his usual
showman sensibilities.
In a recent interview with InStyle, Zendaya
opened up about the legacy she wants to leave, what drew her to her Greatest
Showman role, and more.
Apart from Insidious: The Last Key, which dropped to No. 5 and $ 12.45 million after its No. 2
opening last week, the rest of the Top 10 was filled out with holiday holdovers and blockbuster victory laps, including The Greatest
Showman (No. 4, $ 12.5 million), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (No. 6, $ 12.1 million), Pitch Perfect 3 (No. 9, $ 6 million), and The Darkest Hour (No. 10, $ 4.5 million).
Until very recently, «The Greatest
Showman» was supposed to
open on Christmas Day, but Fox decided to move it up five days to Wednesday Dec. 20 — the same day Sony's «Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle»
opens.
There's a powerhouse
opening number («The Greatest Show»), but it does take longer than I expected for «
Showman» to fully pull you in, and some of elements feel a bit rushed.
The Sound of Music, Funny Girl, or indeed The Greatest
Showman, whose stealth success at the box office since it
opened five weeks ago has quietly become the biggest film story of the new year.
The
opening to The Greatest
Showman could be one of the best starts to a movie all 2017.
Former fairground
showman Billy Butlin
opened his first holiday camp at Skegness, Lincolnshire in 1936.