Top 10 theatrical openings for musical film adaptions at the North American box office -

1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
[October 24, 2008]
Opening Weekend: $42,030,184 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $42,695,473
Total gross: $90,559,416 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $91,992,867

2. Mamma Mia!
[July 18, 2008]
Opening weekend: $27,751,240 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $28,190,510
Total gross: $144,130,063 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $146,411,476

3. Hairspray
[July 20, 2007]
Opening weekend: $27,476,745 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: .$28,983,352
Total gross: $118,871,849 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $125,389,843

4. Dreamgirls
[December 15, 2006 (Limited) | December 25, 2006]
Opening weekend: $14,100,050 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $15,296,805
Total gross: $103,365,956 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $112,139,244

5. Moulin Rouge!
[May 18, 2001 (Limited)| June 1, 2001]
Opening weekend: $13,718,306 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $16,951,098
Total gross: $57,386,607 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $70,910,068

6. Burlesque
[November 24, 2010]
Opening weekend: $11,947,744 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: N/A
Total gross: $17,300,213 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: N/A

7. The Best Little *****house in Texas
[July 23, 1982]
Opening weekend: $11,874,268 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $26,912,259
Total gross: $69,701,637 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $157,974,245

8. Rent
[November 23, 2005]
Opening weekend: $10,016,021 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $11,216,661
Total gross: $29,077,547 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $32,563,130

9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[December 3, 2007 (Limited) | December 21, 2007]
Opening weekend: $9,300,805 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $9,810,787
Total gross: $52,898,073 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $55,798,586

10. Grease
[June 16, 1978]
Opening weekend: $8,941,717 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $29,994,660
Total gross: $159,978,870 | Adjusted for 2010 inflation: $362,581,747

This is the real record.

Moulin Rouge! should be @ #1.

This doesn't need a thread...

Burlesque is an adaptation? I thought it was an original story.

And where's Enchanted?

And how is being #7 rewriting history?

Enchanted wasn't a musical lol it was a regular Disney movie and it only had 4 songs.

Rewrites History? Again?

They're gonna keep spinning it until they find something.

Just sit back and enjoy the fiction rewrite itself until it gets it's story straight

DMF, this is just asking for hate.

Best opening for a non-Disney, non-animated, non-Broadway based, non-sequel, non-adaptation, non-Nicole Kidman, non-inflation adjusted musical.

Haven't some Disney musicals (Aladdin, Beauty of the Beast, Princess & the Frog, etc.) had good openings? Where are any of them? PATF did $25 mil.

Those are musicals in my eyes.

The chart needs to be updated. They don't lie.

Xtina

I'm sure you can go deeper than that too.

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