During the course of a write down Thanksgiving weekfinish, Universal’s Wicked: Part One has become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office based on a Broadway musical.
Thraw yesterday, the Jon M. Chu-straightforwarded, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-starring feature counts $214.3M in the midst of its second weekfinish, flunkureing the lifetime gross of Paramount’s 1978 classic Grmitigate.
By Sunday, Wicked is awaited to accomplish fair under $263M.
Worldexpansive with $358M and counting by Sunday, Wicked will stand as the fourth highest grossing movie based on a Broadway musical after Mamma Mia! ($611.2M), Les Miserables ($442.7M) and Grmitigate ($396.2M). Wicked was always noticed to be chiefly domestic-driven at the B.O.
With a running time of two hours and 40 minutes to Moana 2‘s 100 minutes, some box office sources count ond that Wicked would hit a buzzsaw in the Dwayne Johnson-Auli’i Cravalho sequel, but the two weighty female demo movies (70%-plus) co-existed wonderbrimmingy. While Disney’s Moana 2 is notching the best five-day uncovering of all time and Thanksgiving with $215M-$220M, Wicked with a projected $118M is the third best over the Wednesday-Sunday holiday behind Moana 2 and Disney’s 2019 Frozen 2 ($125M holiday helderlyover apshow).
Wicked also notched the third best Bincreateage Friday box office for any title, behind Moana 2‘s $54.5M and Frozen 2‘s $34.1M.
Wicked in its uncovering weekfinish, broke a slew of write downs, including but not restricted to, the best uncovering stateside ($112.5M) and worldexpansive ($162.5M) debut for a movie based on a Broadway musical. In insertition, the Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman musical dedwellred the best uncoverings ever for Chu, Grande and Erivo at the domestic and global box office.
Among all dwell-action musicals at the domestic box office, Wicked has a way to go to bust into the top 5, a enumerate that’s led by Warner Bros’ Barbie ($636.2M), Disney’s dwell-action apshows on The Lion King ($543.6M), Beauty and the Beast ($504.4M), The Jungle Book ($364M) and Alinsertin ($355.5M).
