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Record Sales For ‘Book Of Mormon’ London Bow

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday March 23, 2013 @ 9:49am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Book Of Mormon, London, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, Ticket Sale Record, Trey Parker
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BREAKING: The producers of The Book Of Mormon opened the Tony winning hit Thursday night at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre. They’ve announced that the show set a record for the biggest single day of sales in West End and Broadway history on the day following. Yesterday, between 10:00 AM and Midnight, the box office did £2,107,972, or $3,210,019 in ticket sales. Some 150,000 additional tickets have been made available and the show is now booking until January 11, 2014.

Cameron Mackintosh, who owns the theater and has had his share of big stage hits said: “After a phenomenal opening night I am delighted to see a phenomenal record-breaking post opening box office of over £2m. The Mormons have truly delivered a Heavenly hit!”

The Book Of Mormon, with book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, is produced in London by Anne Garefino, Scott Rudin, Important Musicals and Sonia Friedman Productions. This is the latest of a swarm of broken records for the musical, which on Broadway has bested the Eugene O’Neill Theatre’s house record 44 times. The National Tour has continually broken house records across the country since opening in Denver in the summer of 2012, and the Chicago production holds the house record at the Bank of America Theatre. The musical, which won nine Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, shows how lucrative an original stage hit can be. The musical shows no sign of slowing, with four Book Of Mormon companies operating thus far, and the inevitable movie that will come sometime down the line.

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Tom Cruise Moves On To London For ‘All You Need Is Kill’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 23, 2012 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: All You Need Is Kill, London, Tom Cruise, Warner Bros
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Tom Cruise All You Need Is KillWarner Bros has given a green light to All You Need Is Kill, and that is why Tom Cruise has landed in London. He started prep on the Doug Liman-directed film … Read More »

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Miramax Bolsters World Sales Unit With New Topper And A London Office

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 8, 2011 @ 7:47am PDTTags: London, Mike Lang, Miramax

Miramax announced today that it is growing its worldwide sales organization by opening its first international office in London. As part of the initiative, former MGM Worldwide Television Group executive Joe Patrick has been promoted to run worldwide sales, … Read More »

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Ingenious Hires Weinstein Exec Lucas Webb To Run Fox Searchlight Deal

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday March 30, 2011 @ 6:12am PDTTags: Fox Searchlight, Ingenious Media, London, The Weinstein Co

EXCLUSIVE: Ingenious, the UK private-equity fund that backed Avatar, has poached Lucas Webb, The Weinstein Company’s man in London, to run its Fox Searchlight arm. The financier announced in January that it was going to make between two and … Read More »

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‘Bridget Jones’ Musical Gets Underway

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 4:01am PDTTags: Director Stephen Daldry, London, Theater

Lily_AllenLily Allen is writing some of the songs for the new Bridget Jones stage musical, which has staged its first workshop reading. I’m told this was a rough assembly of Helen Fielding’s script and some songs with the Billy Elliot creative team — director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and associate director Julian Webber. Producer Working Title plans to bring the show to London’s West End next year. They’ll be crossing fingers Bridget Jones replicates the success of Billy Elliot, which has been seen by 4.5 million people worldwide and won 10 Tony awards, including Best Musical. Read More »

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Amex Signs BFI Sponsorship Deal

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday June 29, 2010 @ 11:22am PDTTags: British Film Institute, London

BFI_logo-782327Hurrah. Some good news for the British Film Institute in the wake of its merger with the UK Film Council being cancelled. American Express will be headline sponsor of this year’s BFI London Film Festival this October. The credit card company … Read More »

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SOLT Picks Julian Bird As CEO

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 7:40am PDTTags: Keira Knightley, Laurence Olivier Awards, London, Rachel Weisz

Theatre CurtainsThe Tate’s current chief operating officer will replace Richard Pulford as chief executive of the Society of London Theatre in November. Right at the top of Bird’s in-box will be trying to get the Olivier theatre awards on TV. … Read More »

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Gemma Arterton To Star In Ibsen Tragedy

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday June 18, 2010 @ 4:13am PDTTags: Actors, Foreign, London, Theater

Gemma ArtertonThe Prince of Persia star will be treading the boards in November, starring opposite Stephen Dillane in The Master Builder. Travis Preston directs from Kenneth McLeish’s translation from the original Norwegian. Previews start at London’s Almeida Theatre on November … Read More »

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Murdoch Holds Annual Summer Bash

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday June 17, 2010 @ 8:37am PDTTags: Big Media, Celebrity, Foreign, London, Politics

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha attended, as did rival Labour politicians Ed and David Milliband (they’re brothers and both competing to lead the Party). Peter Rice, head of Fox Broadcasting, was there, as was son-in-law Matthew Freud and daughter Elizabeth. Not many celebrities apart from comedian James … Read More »

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2 Film Directors To Lead London Olympics

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday June 17, 2010 @ 3:05am PDTTags: Directors, Foreign, London, Olympics, Sports

Olympic CeremonyThe Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle, and Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry, have been tapped as creative bosses of the London 2012 Olympics. Stephen Daldry will be in overall creative charge of the Olympics and Paralympics, while Danny … Read More »

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Kristen Stewart Eyes West End Debut?

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday June 11, 2010 @ 4:58am PDTTags: Actors, Foreign, London, Producers, Theater

kristen-stewart4Smashing story in today’s Daily Mail claiming West End theatre producers are trying to entice the Twilight star to tread the boards. Stewart has informally met one London producer and director, who presented the 20-year-old star with a list of possible … Read More »

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‘FlashForward’ Fans Stage Global Blackout

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday June 11, 2010 @ 4:11am PDTTags: Foreign, London, Networks, TV, TV Shows, Video

Supporters of the cancelled TV show converged on London’s leafy Wandsworth Common last night to stage a mass “blackout.” Pretend blackouts, lasting for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, mimicking the opening of the show, also took place simultaneously in Edinburgh, Dublin, Pisa, Italy. European fans linked up with US campaigners … Read More »

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Producers Say Restoration Levy Puts Off West End Theatregoers

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday June 8, 2010 @ 8:44am PDTTags: Finance, Foreign, London, Theater

Theatre CurtainsStage producers I’ve spoken to say the restoration levy charged by London theatre operators puts people off from going to the theatre. West End theatregoing is expensive enough, they say, without another charge being added on to the ticket … Read More »

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Warner Bros Snubbed London Over Harry Potter Theme Park

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday June 8, 2010 @ 4:14am PDTTags: Books, Finance, London, Movies, Studios, Theme Parks

harry theme parkThe studio ignored London mayor Boris Johnson’s plea to site the Wizarding World of Harry Potter over here rather than Florida. Johnson has called for the public to write to Warner Bros, petitioning for a second theme park to … Read More »

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