Although met with mixed reviews from professional critics, it developed a huge fan following (it has an 86% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes) and was a commercial success, raking in approximately $435 million worldwide off a reported $84 million budget.
First entering development in 2009, The Greatest Showman (which was originally envisioned as a Broadway production) was finally released in theaters on December 20, 2017.
Following its initial theatrical release, the movie briefly returned to big screens as a sing-a-long experience.