‘Depraved’ Turns into High-Grossing Movie Adaptation of a Broadway Musical

UPDATE (Jan. 2): Depraved simply retains including to its record-setting tally on the boxoffice. As of Jan. 2, it has grossed $648.5 million worldwide. The musical is more likely to maintain including to its tally, too, with Oscar nominations due on Jan. 17 and the Oscar telecast set for March 2.

PREVIOUSLY (Dec. 29): It’s official: Depraved has pulled forward of Mamma Mia! to turn out to be the top-grossing movie primarily based on a Broadway musical. Depraved has grossed $634.4 million worldwide because it opened on Nov. 22. Mamma Mia! grossed $611.5 million worldwide following its launch in June 2008.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in Depraved, which was directed by Jon M. Chu, whose hit-studded résumé features a earlier movie adaptation of a Broadway musical, the 2021 film model of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s breakout hit Within the Heights.

Seven movie diversifications of Broadway musicals seem on Field Workplace Mojo’s record of the prime 1,000 movies by way of their lifetime worldwide grosses. That counts Mamma Mia!, a movie adaptation of the 2001 stage musical constructed round ABBA music, however not its Cher-featuring sequel Mamma Mia: Right here We Go Once more, on the grounds that the latter was actually only a sequel to successful film. (The sequel did astonishingly effectively, with a worldwide gross of $395.6 million.) In fact, not all sequels are assured to turn out to be box-office successes. Grease is right here, however its 1982 sequel, Grease 2, which grossed simply $15 million worldwide, didn’t come shut.

Depraved: For Good, beforehand referred to by the generic title Depraved Half Two, is due for launch on Nov. 21, 2025. Will it observe its predecessor to box-office glory? If it does, Chu will be part of Rob Marshall as the one director with two movies on this record; Marshall directed each Chicago and Into the Woods.

You would possibly surmise that each Depraved and Mamma Mia! will need to have received the Tony for finest musical after they performed on Broadway. Really, neither one did. Depraved misplaced to Avenue Q in 2004. Mamma Mia! misplaced to Totally Fashionable Millie in 2002.

Solely two of the seven musical-to-film transfers on this record received the Tony for finest musical after they performed on Broadway. Les Misérables received in 1987. Hairspray received in 2003. Of the opposite three, Grease misplaced in 1972 to Two Gents of Verona, Chicago misplaced in 1976 to A Refrain Line. Into the Woods misplaced in 1988 to The Phantom of the Opera.

One disclaimer about this record proper on the prime: You’ll be able to’t simply examine box-office grosses of movies from totally different eras. The most important blockbusters of earlier eras merely can’t match the grosses of at this time’s hits. (It’s not simply your creativeness that ticket costs are a lot greater than they was.) The Sound of Music has grossed $159.5 million worldwide, in keeping with Field Workplace Mojo — not sufficient to make their record of 1,000 top-grossing movies. However that 1965 adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical is likely one of the greatest hits in movie historical past.

Different movie diversifications of Broadway musicals which have grossed greater than $50 million worldwide, however not sufficient to make the record, embrace Dreamgirls ($155.5 million), the 2021 model of West Aspect Story ($76 million), My Truthful Girl ($72.7 million) and Humorous Lady ($52.2 million).

Listed below are the seven top-grossing movie diversifications of Broadway musicals by way of lifetime worldwide grosses.