'Wicked: For Good' soars to $150 million domestic opening

Universal's "Wicked: For Good" defied gravity astatine the container office, snaring an estimated $150 cardinal from home summons sales.

It marks the second-highest opening play for a movie released successful 2025, conscionable down Warner Bros.' "A Minecraft Movie," which tallied $163 million backmost successful April. It besides outpaces the debut of past year's "Wicked," which tallied $112.5 cardinal successful the U.S. and Canada.

The film's haul sets the grounds for the biggest opening play of a Broadway adaptation. With further summons income from planetary markets, "Wicked: For Good" is acceptable to scope a $226 cardinal planetary haul for its archetypal 3 days successful theaters.

"Team Universal did a fantastic occupation of pursuing perfectly connected the occurrence of the archetypal movie a twelvemonth agone and person parlayed that into an adjacent bigger debut for this 2nd installment," said Paul Degarabedian, head of marketplace trends astatine Comscore. "'Wicked: For Good' volition look guardant to incredibly beardown playability passim Thanksgiving week and beyond during the all-important vacation movie-going season."

Last year, the operation of "Wicked," Paramount's "Gladiator II" and Disney's "Moana 2" helped boost the Thanksgiving vacation container bureau to its highest haul ever. This year, "Wicked: For Good" is joined by Disney's "Zootopia 2."

The archetypal "Zootopia" opened successful 2016 to $75 cardinal domestically but went connected to gross much than $1 cardinal worldwide. Pent-up assemblage request could propulsion the film's three-day opening to astir $100 cardinal and the five-day Thanksgiving play to northbound of $125 million.

"The awesome expected over-performance by 'Wicked: For Good,' successful operation with the different films successful the marketplace, could springiness past year's grounds Thanksgiving virtually a tally for its money," Dergarabedian said. "This is large quality after all the negative stories astir the challenging October container bureau drove the narrative."

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