Mamma Mia! "Waterloo" was adapted into Brazilian Portuguese, this version was never used. In the Russian production the song "Happy New Year" is sung at the encore on New Year holidays shows. "Mamma Mia!" was adapted as a film, produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, written by Catherine Johnson directed by Phyllida Lloyd and with Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Benny Andersson as executive producers. Meryl Streep stars as Donna Sheridan and Amanda Seyfried as Sophie and Pierce Brosnan as Sam Carmichael. The movie also features Christine Baranski, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård and Julie Walters. It premiered
Mamma Mia! (film series) was released on July 20, 2018 by Universal Pictures in the UK, USA and other selected countries. The first trailer for "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" was released on December 21, 2017 in front of "Pitch Perfect 3", another film distributed by Universal Pictures. Cher performed Fernando at the Las Vegas CinemaCon on April 25, 2018 after footage of the film was shown. In May 2018, "BoxOffice Magazine" projected the film to gross $25–35 million in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, and a final domestic total of around $105 million. On Rotten Tomatoes the film