Wicked: For Good – The Latest Film Breaking Box Office Records:
During domestic box office previews, Universal’s Thanksgiving tentpole Wicked: For Good brought in an incredible $30.8 million, the highest preview revenue of the year. It even outperformed the first film from the previous year, which surprised audiences with $19.2 million in previews.
Analyzing Wicked: For Good’s profits
• 1,050 theaters saw $6.1 million in revenue from Monday’s Amazon Prime screenings.
• The double-feature and normal previews on Thursday brought in $18.2 million from 3,350 theaters after early screenings at 2,300 sites added $6.5 million on Wednesday.
With estimates indicating a record-breaking opening weekend of over $125 million domestically and over $200 million worldwide, Wicked: For Good is nearly guaranteed to turn around the faltering box office. It will be the best opening for a Broadway musical adaption ever if it achieves these numbers.
Even the studio stated that anything above $115 million in North America would be a significant victory in an effort to control expectations.
Based on the secret tales of the Oz witches, Wicked: For Good is director Jon M. Chu’s second big-screen version of the renowned Broadway musical. Cynthia Erivo portrays Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Ariana Grande plays Glinda the Good Witch.
Advance ticket sales for the most recent Wicked movie have been soaring since advertisements began on October 8. This includes a full-episode integration with Dancing With the Stars, where Christopher Scott choreographed the opening number and Jon M. Chu served as a guest judge. Following that episode, the movie received 57 million TikTok views in a single day, and Dancing With the Stars became the most viewed program among the 18–24 age range since 2015.
Wicked: For Good has been Fandango’s top PG-rated preseller ever and one of its greatest presellers in the first ten days thanks to a number of special activations. Additionally, it is currently 2025’s top preseller.
The movie’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score has increased to 97% after early showing, which is marginally higher than the 96% of the original Wicked movie.
The first Wicked made history on the same weekend exactly a year ago with a record-breaking three-day opening of $112.5 million, the largest opening ever for a musical adaption. In the end, it made almost $750 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Broadway musical adaption to date. This is a remarkable accomplishment in a genre that Hollywood has frequently had trouble mastering.