The Greatest Showman | PT Barnum Biopic starring Hugh Jackman. Fox releasing. Christmas 2017

[That One Girl]

Just now, Dexter of Suburbia said:

Didn’t you get emotional over that Valerian movie. 

 

I learned the errror of my ways  

[HesAPooka]

Wow I completely forgot this is coming out.

[dudalb]

I knew the Jackman worshipers would show up.

We had a couple of over the top Jackman fans telling us how great and wonderful "Pan" was going to be, and how huge a hit it would was going to be.

Jackman does attract some really over the top fans who would think a four hour  movie of Jackman reading names out of the phone book is going to be great.

[grim22]

These posters seriously say “Featuring the Academy Award winning lyricists of LA LA LAND”. That’s the most tangential connection ever 

 

 

 

 

[TalismanRing]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

These posters seriously say “Featuring the Academy Award winning lyricists of LA LA LAND”. That’s the most tangential connection ever 

 

 

 

 

It's not that tangential, they're both musicals.  Except this one has a leading man (and other actors) who can sing.

 

A shame I don't like the released music.  Pretty posters though.

 

 

[Eric Prime]

 

[kayumanggi]

The #GreatestShowman🎩 is the greatest holiday movie of the season. Watch the new trailer now. pic.twitter.com/WDGU7eCd52

— The Greatest Showman (@GreatestShowman) November 13, 2017

[Eric Prime]

I died laughing at those CGI lions.  

[Eric Prime]

There's also a UK Trailer, which is far superior, if only because of the song choice.

 

[TalismanRing]

Hugh Jackman is magnetic and it's a beautiful looking movie 

 

(not so much the CGI lions but if they'd used  real currently unemployed circus lions there would have been protests)

 

 

[The Futurist]

Bold prediction : 

 

Michelle Williams will have 3 sobbing scenes over something in this movie.

[Hiccup23]

I think this looks great and much more appealing than La La Land. 

 

I am so far a big fan of the songs and this movie looks fun. Doubt it will be a big Oscar film like La La Land but families I think will show up for this given the circus theme, wholesome story, and colorful scenes. 

 

120M domestic total. 

[Valonqar]

3 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

Hugh Jackman is magnetic and it's a beautiful looking movie 

 

(not so much the CGI lions but if they'd used  real currently unemployed circus lions there would have been protests)

 

 

I want this to do well for Hugh's sake plus Zendaya naysayers can see she has range with SMH (deglam, comedy) and this (musical, drama). 

[Eric Prime]

 

[Ithil]

Saw a trailer for this before Murder on the Orient Express. It frankly looked rather cheesy and not in a good "holiday spirit" way, just in a corny way. I also got the impression from a few of the shots shown that this is a musical, but the trailer didn't actually communicate that at all. 

 

I could just look it up, but I might as well tell you what that trailer told me about the film, because it's not like the average movie goer is going to look it up.

Edited November 17, 2017 by Ithil

[MrPink]

14 minutes ago, Ithil said:

Saw a trailer for this before Murder on the Orient Express. It frankly looked rather cheesy and not in a good "holiday spirit" way, just in a corny way. I also got the impression from a few of the shots shown that this is a musical, but the trailer didn't actually communicate that at all. 

 

I could just look it up, but I might as well tell you what that trailer told me about the film, because it's not like the average movie goer is going to look it up.

 

The 2nd trailer makes clear it's a musical.

 

The 2nd trailer is also worse than the first one 

[Morieris]

I hope one of the songs involves a creepy organ grinder. 

[That One Girl]

I liked the 2nd trailer better than the first one.  I think this could be fine as long as the songs are at least catchy (although we’re gonna have to rule out at least one of them being good)

[The Futurist]

Looks decent visually to be honest.

[Ithil]

2 hours ago, MrPink said:

 

The 2nd trailer makes clear it's a musical.

 

The 2nd trailer is also worse than the first one 

Ok, because musicals should absolutely not hide that they are musicals in their trailers. It makes for a bad reaction when someone sees the film most times.