Variety Reports Rent Film Down in Second Weekend
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 04, 2005
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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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