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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
Mike Fleming

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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‘South Park’ Co-Creators Announcing Their Own Studio Monday: NYT

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 12:31am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Matt Stone, Raine Group, South Park, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker, WME

Later today Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to declare their new Important Studios open for business (press release is below). On Monday, reports the New York Times, the South Park and … Read More »

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‘Book Of Mormon’ Breaks Another House Record On Broadway, And One In Denver

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 12:25pm PDTTags: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Book Of Mormon on Broadway broke the house record of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre for the 39th time for the week ending August 19, with a gross of $1,651,064.00. While that is a big number for a theater … Read More »

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‘The Book Of Mormon’ Nominated For Grammy For Best Musical Theater Album

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 9:35pm PSTTags: Bobby Lopez, Grammy Awards, Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker

After getting their show to Broadway, winning nine Tony Awards including Best New Musical, what else is there for Bobby Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, composers/lyricists for The Book of Mormon? Well, just a day after Deadline reported … Read More »

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‘The Book Of Mormon’ Now In The Black

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 11:59am PSTTags: Broadway, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker
Mike Fleming

While there is suspicion that the year-old Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will have to run for decades to recoup its $75 million budget despite its glowing press, the same cannot be said of the Tony-winning The Book Of Mormon. … Read More »

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VIDEO: Trey Parker, Matt Stone Talk Tonys, Call ‘Spider-Man’ Musical “Train Wreck”

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 16, 2011 @ 6:29am PDTTags: Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Tony Awards, Trey Parker
Nellie Andreeva

After winning nine Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical, for The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to The Daily Show for a victory lap. They talked breaking into the Broadway community, winning big at the Tonys and took a jab at troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn … Read More »

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Hollywood & Religion: More Controversy To Come If New Films Anger The Faithful

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday April 24, 2011 @ 1:54pm PDTTags: Broadway, Filmmakers, Hollywood, James Frey, Matt Stone, Mel Gibson, Movies, Paul Thomas Anderson, Religion, The Book of Mormon, The Master, The Passion of the Christ, Trey Parker
Mike Fleming

Easter Sunday seems an appropriate time to focus on Hollywood’s treatment of the subject matter of religion. When it comes to making movies from various Biblical interpretations, conventional wisdom says stick close to scripture and the faithful will flock. Mel … Read More »

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