The film version of
Rent, directed by
Chris Columbus and starring most of the original Broadway cast, has leaped ahead of the DVD pack to become the week's top-seller, according to
The Hollywood Reporter.The DVDs of
Domino, Saw II, Ultimate Avengers: The Movie, the first season of "Grey's Anatomy" and
North Country are among those that placed behind
Rent, which is available in a special 2-disc set.
Rent also includes over three hours of special features, including five deleted scenes and musical performances, director and selected cast commentary, a five-part feature-length documentary, as well as two public service announcements--one for the Jonathan Larson
Performing Arts Foundation and the other for the National Marfan
Foundation.
The success of the DVD follows a somewhat lackluster domestic box office intake for the film, which opened nationwide on November 23rd, 2005.
A Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios production, it earned $29,077,547.
Rent, which was directed by Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), featured Idina Menzel,
Taye Diggs, Wilson
Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and
Anthony Rapp of the original cast, as well as Rosario
Dawson and Tracie Thoms.
With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rent is
set in New York's East Village, where a group of artists
love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure,
illness and death. The La Boheme-based
show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its
opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for
Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months
before the show opened. It has since run for over 4,000 performances.
For more information, visit www.sonypictures.com.
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