Combining that with the honest, melancholy love story at the center of it, and La La Land has been able to maintain a consistent level of hype around it in the many months between its festival premieres to its eventual theatrical release.
So far no film has managed to be both the critical darling and huge general audience hit in 2016 like writer and director Damien Chazelle’s modern day musical La La Land has.
Expanding since then with consistently promising results, La La Land isn’t showing any signs of slowing down at the box office either, with the potential of being one of Lionsgate’s biggest non-franchise hits in the studio’s history.
The film has luckily been more than just a hit critically too, making $40 million domestic since its early limited December release, after initially being released in just four theaters throughout the country.