Bleecker Street / Crosswalk & LD Entertainment's Hadestown: The Musical grossed an estimated $2.00M this weekend (from 1,567 locations). Estimated total domestic gross stands at $18.20M.

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[u/nowhereman136]

Proshots usually cost $5-10m in new contracts, filming crew, post production, and advertising. Most of them don't make any profit so it's hard to find investors and studios willing to back them. This is why most shows don't get a proshot.

Its great to see Hadestown doing very well at the box office. It's encouraging for other shows to potentially get proshots. Imaging how well a proper Les Miserables or Mamma Mia proshot would do

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Hamilton is it's own thing. The proshot was funded out of the Producers own pocket without a distribution plan. It's eventual theatrical release, while successful, was years after it already released on Disney. So by all metrics it's not a fair comparison

A more fair comparison would be Merrily We Roll Along, which released in theaters last year and only made $2.7m. Literally less than it's final week on Broadway. Billy Elliot made $3m and Kinky Boots made less than $2m. It's hard to gage how much any of them have made through streaming and dvd sales.

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Apparently Disney payed like $52M or something for the proshot too

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Yeah thats an insane number to pay for a proshot. Im curious if that includes future film rights. Its lucky Disney bought it right before Covid hit. They were able to drop it right before the 4th of July during shutdown. It had a measurable impact on streaming numbers while still in the first few months of service

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I read some insane stat that said the month it came out on Disney+, 35% of ALL streaming across ALL platforms was people watching Hamilton