In a wide-ranging interview for my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Hugh Jackman visits our studios and talks of encounters with Kirk Douglas (he just received the Santa Barbara Film Festival award named for the legend), hosting the Oscars and why he may do it again, and the impetus for his role as P.T. Barnum…
Since hanging up his claws as Wolverine in spectacular fashion with Logan, Hugh Jackman has been exploring. He returned to his first love, musical theatre, last year for the blockbusting The Greatest Showman, and now tackles perhaps the meatiest role of his career to date as 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Gary…
When it comes to The Greatest Showman‘s theatrical business, it’s been a real sostenuto for 20th Century Fox and producer Chernin Entertainment after starting off on a low note at the Christmas box office.
Buried in the shadows of the behemoth holiday success of Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($1.3 billion global B.O.) and J…
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And you thought Washington D.C. was bad! It is nothing compared to the Oscars when every vote is on the line.
With voting going on in force, it seems it is prime time for political controversy and headline-grabbing attempts at making a last-minute…
UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle continues to prove it's got Big Game. In its 7th weekend, Sony's holiday-season holdover from director Jake Kasdan banged the drum across $500M overseas and $850M worldwide. Through Sunday, it's captured $503.1M at the international box office and $855.7M globally…
On the way to some Thursday appointments, I thought I'd catch up with The Greatest Showman at the Landmark Theaters here; but it was not to be found at the Westside's showcase cinema. Never mind that Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum musical, released by Fox on December 20, was No. 3 at the Wednesday box office, going strong…
In the movie musical, The Greatest Showman, Keala Settle stars alongside Hugh Jackman as Letty (aka the Bearded Lady). Jackman’s Barnum, pulls Letty, along with several other “oddities” into the spotlight to celebrate what makes them different. Settle’s character leads the charge in a defining scene of the movie with…
Just as The Greatest Showman scored a Best Song Golden Globe for “This Is Me,” its companion album has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and iTunes charts. It’s the first soundtrack to top the Billboard tally since Fifty Shades Darker spent one week at the summit in March.
The record debuted at No. 71 on the 200 four…
UPDATED with video: “This Is Me,” the signature song from the P.T. Barnum musical The Greatest Showman, took the Golden Globe for best original song at the 75th annual event tonight.
An empowerment anthem designed to showcase the struggles of the circus “Oddities,” it’s sung in the film by Letty, the Bearded Lady…
UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi made the jump across the coveted $1B mark worldwide this holiday weekend, grossing $1,066.7M through Monday. The Rian Johnson-helmed installment became the 4th movie to pass the milestone in 2017, and the second for Disney after Beauty And The…
Tuesday AM update: We’ll have finals later in the day, but according to industry estimates this morning, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming in with much less cash than anticipated from what was projected yesterday. Granted, the entire weekend was a hard one for analysts to call with Christmas Eve on…
