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Rent made a worldwide total of $31.7 million, against a budget of $40 million.
Taye Diggs (Benny), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Angel), Jesse L. Martin (Collins), Idina Menzel (Maureen), Adam Pascal (Roger), and Anthony Rapp (Mark) are all from the original Broadway cast of Rent in 1996 and are playing their original roles.
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker-Browne, the original Broadway Mimi and Joanne, are the only two lead cast members not to reprise their roles for this film. By the time the film went into production, nearly ten years after its first performance, Walker, by her own admission, was too old to play Joanne. Rubin-Vega was pregnant at the time of filming, and was also nearly 15 years older than the 19-year-old Mimi.
Spike Lee was for a long time attached to direct. The song "Light My Candle" contains the line "I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street"; this line remained unchanged in the movie's version of the song. Other rumored directors were Sam Mendes, Rob Marshall and Baz Luhrmann. Producer Robert De Niro tried to persuade his longtime friend Martin Scorsese to direct, but the legendary filmmaker was unhappy with the drafts of the screenplay he read and departed the project.
Chris Columbus cameos as the frustrated driver whose windshield is being washed.
Rent is an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's 1996 Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, which is itself based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger.
The guitar riff Roger plays throughout the show is based on Musetta's Waltz from La bohème.
Differences between the stage and film versions
"Goodbye Love" was filmed in its entirety, but the second half was cut from the film because Columbus considered it somewhat of an emotional overload
“Halloween” was also cut for pacing
The film leaves ambiguous the death of Roger's girlfriend April, who dies before Rent begins. In the film, she is seen reading a doctor's report that she is HIV positive; it is stated that she has died, but nothing more is said. In the stage version, Mark explicitly states that April ended her life by slitting her wrists in the bathroom, and Roger found out about his HIV status in the suicide note. Chris Columbus said that a scene featuring April lying in the bathtub with her wrists slit was filmed, but cut because he thought it would be "too much".
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