Depraved: For Good has grossed $503.9 million worldwide in its first 5 weeks on the boxoffice, which places it at No. 3 on Billboard’s listing of the top-grossing movies which can be tailored from Broadway musicals. Our listing is drawn from boxofficemojo.com’s operating tally of the 1,000 top-grossing movies of all time when it comes to worldwide grosses.
Each Depraved: for Good and its predecessor, 2024’s Depraved, had been tailored from the 2003 Broadway musical Depraved. The primary Depraved movie opened on Nov. 22, 2024. In simply 5 weeks, it pulled forward of Mamma Mia! to turn out to be the top-grossing movie tailored from a Broadway musical. Depraved acquired 10 Oscar nominations on Jan. 23, 2025, together with nods for each of its stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. It received two awards on the Oscars ceremony on March 2, 2025 — finest costume design and finest manufacturing design.
Each Depraved and Depraved: For Good had been 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.
Eight movie diversifications of Broadway musicals seem on Field Workplace Mojo’s listing of the highest 1,000 movies when it comes to their lifetime worldwide grosses. One disclaimer about this listing proper on the prime: The largest blockbusters of earlier eras merely can’t match the grosses of at the moment’s hits. (It’s not simply your creativeness that ticket costs are a lot larger than they was once.) The Sound of Music has grossed $161.4 million worldwide, in accordance with Field Workplace Mojo — not sufficient to make their listing of 1,000 top-grossing movies. However that 1965 adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical is among the greatest hits in movie historical past. (After all, again then a film ticket value lower than a field of Raisinets does at the moment.)
Our listing doesn’t embody Mamma Mia: Right here We Go Once more, the Cher-featuring sequel to Mamma Mia!, on the grounds that it was actually only a sequel to a success film. (The sequel did astonishingly properly, with a worldwide gross of $395.6 million.) In contrast, Depraved: For Good had the identical supply materials as Depraved — the 2003 Broadway present.
Listed here are the eight top-grossing movie diversifications of Broadway musicals when it comes to lifetime worldwide grosses.
Hairspray
Picture Credit score: ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $203.6 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2
Stars: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, Nikki Blonsky
Director: Adam Shankman
Date movie opened: July 20, 2007
Date Broadway present opened: Aug. 15, 2002
Music credit: Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Into the Woods
Movie’s worldwide gross: $212.9 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 8
Stars: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Johnny Depp
Director: Rob Marshall
Date movie opened: Dec. 25, 2014
Date Broadway present opened: Nov. 5, 1987
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Chicago
Picture Credit score: Miramax/courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $306.8 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Lucy Liu, Colm Feore
Director: Rob Marshall
Date movie opened: Jan. 24, 2003 (earlier in chosen markets)
Date Broadway present opened: June 3, 1975
Music credit: Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Grease
Picture Credit score: Paramount Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $396.3 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (12 weeks)
Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman, Sha Na Na
Director: Randal Kleiser
Date movie opened: June 16, 1978
Date Broadway present opened: Feb. 14, 1972
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Les Misérables
Movie’s worldwide gross: $442.8 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week)
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Tom Hooper
Date movie opened: Dec. 25, 2012
Date Broadway present opened: March 12, 1987
Music credit: Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Depraved: For Good
Movie’s worldwide gross: $503.9 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2
Stars: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Colman Domingo, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Jon M. Chu
Date movie opened: Nov. 21, 2025
Date Broadway present opened: Oct. 30, 2003
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Mamma Mia!
Picture Credit score: Common/Courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $706.7 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week)
Stars: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Date movie opened: July 18, 2008
Date Broadway present opened: Oct. 18, 2001
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
Depraved
Movie’s worldwide gross: $758.1 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Jon M. Chu
Date movie opened: Nov. 22, 2024
Date Broadway present opened: Oct. 30, 2003
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
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