The film version of the multiple Tony award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I: From the London Palladium has become the biggest theatre event in cinemas of 2018 following global screenings at the end of November.

The production is expected to take $2.5m at the box office. In the UK the film reached the number one spot, with more than double the box office of the next film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

More than 135,000 movie goers packed into cinemas across the globe to watch The King and I: From the London Palladium – filmed on stage at the iconic London Palladium.  Such has been the demand for tickets, Trafalgar Releasing has scheduled encore screenings both in the UK and globally throughout December.