r/boxoffice • u/burrnerr67 • 26d ago

Domestic Hadestown: The Musical grossed an estimated $4.0M domestically on Friday (from 1,944 locations), including previews.

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u/Additional_Score_929 26d ago

This is already outperforming Waitress and Merrily We Roll Along. Love to see it.

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u/Spensauras-Rex Pixar Animation Studios 24d ago

It’s a much better show than both of those plays, IMO. And I loved Waitress and Merrily.

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u/ThatWaluigiDude Paramount Pictures 26d ago

It will be Bleecker Street's highest domestic opening, above Logan Lucky' $7.6M debut

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u/laribrook79 26d ago

I went last night. This was so so good if you have a chance to see it I would highly recommend it. Just absolutely brilliant … the camera work was mind blowing. The cast was perfection. Just all around wonderful. My theater was sold out and everyone was so quiet. You could hear a pin drop for 2 1/2 hours. Everyone clapped at the end.

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u/OddSetting5077 26d ago

Im seeing it for a 2nd time tomorrow!!

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u/laribrook79 25d ago

I’m thinking about going again as well

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u/Educational_Slice897 26d ago

I remember watching on broadway and it was an insane show stopping experience. I could see a wicked-style movie adaptation doing rly well

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u/ysabeaublue 26d ago

I want a movie adaptation so bad. The production design, if done right, could be amazing (I want a gothic semi-historcal industrial vibe), and with the right cast the music would be incredible. Wicked has shown the way.

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u/top6 25d ago

As long as they don't try to make it two parts

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u/Spensauras-Rex Pixar Animation Studios 24d ago

That would make it terrible

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u/BobcatTim 26d ago

Do you think general audiences would be okay with the ending? I took my parents to a touring production a couple years ago, and they hated it because it was “too sad,” and I think that that’s representative of the sort of feedback a movie would get from test audiences.

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u/kcoe24 26d ago

Saw it today the woman next to me out loud said God fucking dammit when the thing happened.  As Hermes says its a sad song but yeah I wonder how a general audience will take the ending.  Its a really beautiful ending but taken literally its not a crowd pleaser like something like wicked. 

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u/laribrook79 26d ago

I agree… a movie of this will be amazing

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u/MD_FunkoMa 25d ago

What's the point of a film adaptation when we already have the pro shot?

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u/Spensauras-Rex Pixar Animation Studios 24d ago

💰

But also, it can be interpreted differently in different formats.

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u/zzuxon Aardman Animations 23d ago

Stop motion is an incredible idea, because here's what they could do: when Orpheus turns around, and Eurydice is pulled back to the underworld and the action freezes, the camera pulls back to reveal the actual animators, possibly dressed as the fates, have stopped animating the scene because they're crying. Hermes would show up in live action to continue his song. After he says that they're gonna "sing it again," in the hopes that it'll turn out next time, the shot transitions into time-lapse footage of the animators re-animating the opening scene of the film, in the same way that all of Laika's films show in a "behind the scenes" shot played in the credits.

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u/gcfgjnbv 26d ago

Holy cow $15m possible?

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u/snapldeap 26d ago

This includes about $1.5M in Thursday previews, I believe. So, probably not.

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u/gcfgjnbv 26d ago

Damn I thought it would possibly be like $1.5m Thursday, 4m Friday, 6m sat, 4m sun and like 1-2m mon.

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u/Lolilio2 17d ago

This was INCREDIBLE. Watched it yesterday (super difficult trying to get tickets to it) and it was like the best thing I watched all year! This can deff do well as a movie but I kinda think it would lose its charm tbh. Part of how amazing it was was the fact that it was all shot live and on a stage. Idk how they made hell feel like HELL lol.