In today's Box Office Breakdown, we analyze five new releases:
Universal’s Wicked: For Good
Searchlight’s Rental Family
Sony’s SISU: Road to Revenge
Film Forum’s Cutting Through Rocks
Music Box Films’ Zodiac Killer Project
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Universal Pictures’ Wicked: For Good opened at #1 with $150M domestic. Internationally, Wicked earned $76M, bringing its total to $226M worldwide.
Wicked: For Good opened 32% higher domestically than the first film:
Wicked (2024)
$114M domestic opening
vs. $150M ($36M more) for Wicked 2
$50.2M international opening
vs. $76M ($26M more) for Wicked 2
$164.2M worldwide opening
vs. $226M ($62M more) for Wicked 2
This pre-Thanksgiving weekend is a big launchpad for fantasy sequels based on pre-existing IP, which have often outperformed the originals:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
$158M domestic opening
+$6 M more than the 2012 original
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
$142.8 M domestic opening
+$73.2 M more than the 2008 original
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
$88.4 M domestic opening
-$1.9 M less than the 2001 original
Wicked 2 should easily top the first film’s sensational total:
Wicked (2024)
$475M domestic total
$758.7M worldwide
Wicked 2 skyrocketed due to Universal’s all-out marketing.
The film scored quite almost identically for audiences but dropped for critics:
Wicked 1
97% RT - Audience
vs. 95% RT for Wicked 2
90% RT - Critics
vs. 70% RT for Wicked 2
Wicked: For Good had the highest per-screen average of any film this weekend with $36.5K across a monstrous 4115 screens.
Here is the trailer.
Here’s the breakdown of the top 10:
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