Trivia / The Phantom of the Opera (1989)

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $6,000,000; Gross: $3,953,745. It didn't even last three weeks in theaters.
• California Doubling: Although mostly set in London (except for the New York Bookends), the film was primarily filmed in Budapest.
• Non-Singing Voice: Nancy Fontana provides the singing voice for Jill Schoelen's Christine Day.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A falling chandelier scene was in the script, but it wasn't done due to budget constraints.
  • A sequel entitled The Phantom of New York was planned, but the film's low box office made sure it didn't happen.
  • The first draft of the script was a straightforward adaptation of the novel (albeit still set in London); with no scenes set in modern day New York, still featuring the famous chandelier crash, and the Phantom using a mask instead of crude skin grafts.

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