The Opera has been shut down and they are auctioning off props to make some money. The movie starts with an auction being held in the Paris Opera House. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. So let's start the show with my review of. And critics were kind of okay with it but I heard some bad things about it but I felt this was a good adaptation and so far the only major adaptation of the Webber musical. While it didn't do well domestically with $51.2 million against a $70 million budget, it was better worldwide with $154.6 million. It wasn't released for another decade and Warner Bros had the film released for a holiday 2004 release just so it could be released around Oscar-hopeful movie season. Originally meant to star the stars of the Broadway version, Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, but complications arose when Brightman divorced from Webber and the film was delayed for an early 1990's release. But the Broadway adaptation didn't get made for the big screen until 2004 when Schumacher and Webber made a collaboration of making the musical into a feature film. In 1989, the first Phantom of the Opera I saw had Robert Englund was made and to be fair it was more like a Freddy knockoff. This is NOT the first film adaptation of the story, as several films that go back as early as 1925 with silent actor Lon Chaney as the Phantom, and one film per decade was made afterwards, trying to recapture what had been seen before. The late Joel Schumacher gave us his version of The Phantom of the Opera, based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the guy who gave us Cats) and was based on the 1909 novel by Gaston Leroux, and starring Gerard Butler, replacing Michael Crawford as The Phantom, and then newcomer Emmy Rossum as Christine. One of Broadways' biggest musicals based on the classic thriller and directed by the same guy who gave us Batman Forever and Batman and Robin?
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