Variety Reports Rent Film Down in Second Weekend
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 04, 2005
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Rent, which earned the number five spot in last week's box office after opening on November 23rd, has dropped to sixth place.
According to Variety, the Rent film was tied in sixth place with Pride and Prejudice. It made $4.6 million this week--a decrease of 54% from its relatively strong opening week. The film's box office gross is now $23.9 million.Rent, which is directed by Chris Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), is a Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios production; it was released by Sony Pictures. The original cast--Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp--is intact but for Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker; their respective roles of Mimi and Joanne are played by Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms.
With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rent is set in New York's East Village, where a group of artists love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure, illness and death. The La Boheme-based show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months before the show opened. It has since run for almost 4,000 performances.
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According to Variety, the Rent film was tied in sixth place with Pride and Prejudice. It made $4.6 million this week--a decrease of 54% from its relatively strong opening week. The film's box office gross is now $23.9 million.Rent, which is directed by Chris Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), is a Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios production; it was released by Sony Pictures. The original cast--Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp--is intact but for Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker; their respective roles of Mimi and Joanne are played by Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms.
With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rent is set in New York's East Village, where a group of artists love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure, illness and death. The La Boheme-based show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months before the show opened. It has since run for almost 4,000 performances.
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