Wicked: For Good’s Record-Breaking Box Office Debut

"Wicked: For Good" smashes box office records with $147M in North America and $223M globally. Broadway musical adaptation triumphs, proving female audience power at the box office.

In other places, Searchlight opened up the Brendon Fraser-led specialty dramedy Rental Familynationwide in 1,925 movie theaters. The essential and audience darling grossed an approximated $3.3 million to put fifth and end up being the most recent grown-up dramatization to battle, but Searchlight is hopeful it will have staying power over the financially rewarding Thanksgiving passage. The holiday banquet will came to be even more crowded on Wednesday when Zootopia yaps its method right into cinemas.

Rental Family’s Box Office Performance

Overseas, the U.K. led with a record-busting $24.4 million, which is the best-ever November opening, the biggest start for a Broadway adaptation and the best opening of the year to date, not readjusted for inflation.

Worthless: Permanently is the 2nd title in filmmaker Jon M. Chu’s ambitious big-screen adaptation of the famous Broadway musical and book regarding the untold story of the witches of Oz. Ariana Grande stars as Glinda the Excellent Witch and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Worthless Witch of the West. The actors likewise includes Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh.

Wicked: A Broadway Hit on Screen

Disney and 20th Century’s Killer: Badlands recoiled to find in third with $6.3 million from 3,100 places for a three-week residential total of $76.3 million. Overseas, it included one more $7.6 million for a foreign tally of $83.3 million and franchise best-cume of $159.6 million, not readjusted for rising cost of living.

Killer: Badlands’ Global Success

The female-fueled film shattered countless opening records all over. Locally, it flaunts the most significant beginning ever before for a Broadway musical adaptation after besting in 2014’s Evil ($112.5 million) and the third-biggest of all time amongst any type of musical behind 2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Appeal and the Monster, not changed for rising cost of living. It is also the third-biggest North American opening ever before for a Universal title behind Jurassic World ($208.8 million) and Jurassic Globe: Fallen Kingdom ($148 million); the second-best for the weekend break before Thanksgiving behind The Appetite Games: Catching Fire ($158.1 million); and the second-best three-day launch of 2025 to date behind A Minecraft Movie ($208.9 million). Lilo & Stitch, opening over Memorial Day, gathered $147 million for the three-day weekend break and $182.6 million for the four-day holiday structure.

Amongst holdovers, Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Currently You Do not held in perfectly its student trip. The image can be found in 2nd with an approximated $9.1 million from 3,403 places for a residential total of $36.8 million and $146.2 million around the world.

Now You See Me’s Performance

Chu’s movie also passed up Worthless abroad to rate as the top launch ever for a Broadway adjustment. It is additionally the fifth-biggest opening of perpetuity for any type of musical behind The Lion King (2019 ), Moana 2, Frozen 2 and Beauty and the Monster. It passed up Superman to end up being the fourth-biggest, three-day opening of the year to date behind Jurassic World Regeneration, Minecraft and Lilo & Stitch.

Universal’s Thanksgiving tentpole Wicked: For Good opened to a record-smashing $147 million in North America from 4,115 theaters, according to Monday actuals (that was down from Sunday’s estimate of $150 million). Overseas, it furthermore opened up to a record-busting $76 million from 78 markets for a global begin of $223 million.

On the very same weekend a year earlier, the first Evil also made background in its debut on its way to grossing virtually $750 million internationally, a document showing for a Broadway musical adjustment. Such adaptations have been a difficult genre for Hollywood to fracture, however NBCUniversal enjoyment principal and long time animation studio head Donna Langley has continued to be intent on doing just that, also after Cats bombed. She’s prospered.

Wicked’s Global Impact

Wicked: For Good is a required shock for the having a hard time North American box office specifically, which has suffered the most awful fall in decades as a result of an excess of male-skewing pics and a lack of product for females and family members. The flick’s better-than-expected efficiency greater than proves the buying power of ladies and ladies; nearly 70 percent of audience were women.

Domestically, it flaunts the most significant beginning ever before for a Broadway musical adjustment after besting last year’s Evil ($112.5 million) and the third-biggest of all time amongst any music behind 2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Charm and the Monster, not adjusted for inflation. It is likewise the third-biggest North American opening ever for a Universal title behind Jurassic World ($208.8 million) and Jurassic Globe: Fallen Kingdom ($148 million); the second-best for the weekend break before Thanksgiving behind The Hunger Gamings: Catching Fire ($158.1 million); and the second-best three-day launch of 2025 to date behind A Minecraft Motion Picture ($208.9 million). Lilo & Stitch, opening up over Memorial Day, accumulated $147 million for the three-day weekend break and $182.6 million for the four-day holiday structure.

Universal’s Thanksgiving tentpole Wicked: For Great opened to a record-smashing $147 million in North America from 4,115 theaters, according to Monday actuals (that was down from Sunday’s price quote of $150 million). Overseas, it similarly opened to a record-busting $76 million from 78 markets for a worldwide start of $223 million.

Paramount’s distressed The Running Guy rolled 65 percent in its second getaway to $5.8 million from 3,534 cinemas for a 10-day residential overall of $27 million and fourth-place finish. The Edgar Wright-directed image, starring Glen Powell, gained $7.1 million abroad for a foreign tally of $21.3 million and $48.3 million worldwide.

The Running Guy’s Box Office