Weekend Box Office Results: ‘Wicked: For Good’ Opening To $150M; Records Broken for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jon M. Chu
‘Wicked: For Good’ Opening To $150M; Records Broken for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jon M. Chu
Universal’s Wicked: For Good is sticking to a 3-day domestic opening of 0M and global debut of 6M. This is easily the best box office openings ever for Wicked 2 stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, director Jon M. Chu and even producer Marc Platt (his previous global opening record being 2019’s Aladdin at 3M).
There are significantly more box office records being broken with Wicked: For Good literally beating the first half of itself, that being last year’s Wicked. The first Wicked debuted to $112.5M stateside, $164M global. As we mentioned, it’s the second biggest U.S./Canada opening of the year behind A Minecraft Movie‘s $162.7M. After weathering a recessionary period at the box office this fall, Wicked: For Good is a reminder that if you want a stampede at movie theaters in the post Covid/post strikes world, the package and the buzz have to be perfect.
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