Story By BWW News Desk Broadway World Cameron Mackintosh announced today that his acclaimed new production of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece Les Miserables will come to Broadway in March, 2014 at a Shubert theater to be announced. This newly re-imagined Les Miserables is breaking box-office records across the country and […] Read more
Story By Sonia Harford The Age MELBOURNE’S most prominent theatre groups have confirmed they are vying to snare a new stage production of Les Miserables. More than two decades after the production was first staged in Melbourne, speculation about which venue will host its return is rife on the back of the latest film version […] Read more
By Nikki Finke Deadline Today’s overseas openings for Working Title/Universal’s Oscar-nominated Les Misérables pushes it past $200 million worldwide. Domestic grosses are currently at $109M and international grosses at $96.7M before it opens in four other territories this weekend: New Zealand, Netherlands, Cyprus and Vietnam. With tonight’s releases, Tom Hooper’s adaptedd musical is currently open […] Read more
Story By Susanna Lazarus Radio Times “I’m thrilled that so many facets of making this film have been recognised and it’s a great tribute to the craftsmanship of the British film industry,” he tells RadioTimes.com How does it feel being nominated for nine Bafta awards and eight Oscars? It’s fantastic! We’ve got the Bafta and the […] Read more
Story By The Australian HUGH Jackman has received a BAFTA best-actor nomination for his role in the musical Les Miserables. The Australian actor will face off against four others for the prestigious award, after the nominations were announced in London yesterday. Steven Spielberg’s political drama Lincoln, as well as the film version of the hit […] Read more
By Jonathon Moran The Daily Telegraph IT is the Aussie bromance that is taking the world by storm, cinema by cinema. Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe triumphantly hugged and soaked up the atmosphere as they celebrated the Australian premiere of Les Miserables Friday night. After a whirlwind of events across the globe, including stops in […] Read more
Story by The Guardian Written by: Matt Trueman Producer Cameron Mackintosh says that he intends to restage megahit Vietnam war musical ‘as soon as I can find a theatre’ It has been 25 years since Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil saw their Vietnam war musical Miss Saigon staged for the first time. Now it could […] Read more
Review by Variety Written By: JUSTIN CHANG A Universal (in U.S./U.K.) release presented in association with Relativity Media of a Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh production. Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Mackintosh. Executive producers, Angela Morrison, Liza Chasin, Nicholas Allott, F. Richard Pappas. Directed by Tom Hooper. Screenplay, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel […] Read more
[jamiesocial] Story from “The Hollywood Reporter” Written by Stephen Galloway The road to Hollywood hell is paved with fallen musicals. Since Chicago won the Oscar for best picture in 2003, they’ve landed with Richter-level thuds — from 2004’s The Phantom of the Opera, which earned $51 million, less than its production cost; to 2007’s Sweeney […] Read more
