Hugh Jackman has a new movie out this holiday season, and it has allowed the author to hit an incredible box office milestone.
has a new movie out for the holidays, and it has given the actor a massive milestone in his career. The weekend was almost completely dominated byThat film had a three-day weekend total of $7.65 million and an overall holiday weekend five-day total of $12 million.
. With the $12 million opening weekend, Hugh Jackman surpassed the $6.5 billion mark at the worldwide box office for his career as a leading actor, viais a biopic based on a 2008 documentary following Mike and Claire Sardina, a couple who performed in the Neil Diamond tribute band called Thunder & Lightning. Jackman stars as Mike Sardina, while Kate Hudson stars as Claire Sardina. The movie also stars Jim Belushi, Michael Imperioli, Mustafa Shajir, Ella Anderson, and Fisher Stevens. The story follows Mike and Claire as they start their band, and it takes a dark turn when a car hits Claire, and she loses her leg. This leads to fighting, reconciliation, and an eventual heartbreaking ending. While critics appreciated the film, with a 76% Rotten Tomatoes score and certified fresh, it has an almost perfect audience Popcornmeter score. The audience rating is at an incredible 98% fresh. When looking at the reviews for, the audience reviews praised the story, acting, and music. Both Jackman and Hudson performed all the Neil Diamond songs in the movie, and there are 16 different songs on the soundtrack. Kate Hudson was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance.Image Courtesy of Focus Features Of course, most of Hugh Jackman’s $6.5 billion box office totals over his career have been in superhero movies. The top five movies are, which is a movie about a dancing penguin, also playing a lot with the idea of music, and made $385 million. Those three movies alone added $1.248 billion to his total, proving that Jackman can sell films with his singing voice as much as he can with his claws and adamantium skeleton.had an audience that was 61% women and 94% over 25. Its main competition for this audience likely came from musical movies like. With that competition, it is impressive that it did as well as it did, and much of that lies at the feet of Hugh Jackman, as his new milestone proves.One of The MCU’s Most Powerful God-Tier Characters Confirmed To Return In Avengers: DoomsdayGet access to exclusive stories on new releases, movies, shows, comics, anime, games and more!
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