The Greatest Showman
“The impossible comes true.”
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Chernin Entertainment
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Greatest Showman performed
Budget
$84.0M
Worldwide Gross
$459.1M
Gross Profit
$375.1M
Return
5.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$66M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
P. T. Barnum
Hugh Jackman
P. T. Barnum
Phillip Carlyle
Zac Efron
Phillip Carlyle
Charity Barnum
Michelle Williams
Charity Barnum
Jenny Lind
Rebecca Ferguson
Jenny Lind
Anne Wheeler
Zendaya
Anne Wheeler
Lettie Lutz
Keala Settle
Lettie Lutz
W. D. Wheeler
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
W. D. Wheeler
Deng Yan
Natasha Liu Bordizzo
Deng Yan
James Gordon Bennett
Paul Sparks
James Gordon Bennett
Charles Stratton
Sam Humphrey
Charles Stratton
Caroline Barnum
Austyn Johnson
Caroline Barnum
Helen Barnum
Cameron Seely
Helen Barnum
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