{"id":388628,"date":"2025-11-18T23:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388628\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:29:14","slug":"for-good-will-be-very-popular-with-200m-global-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388628\/","title":{"rendered":"For Good’ Will Be Very Popular With $200M+ Global Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLike a magic spell from Glinda the Witch herself, the box office is finally bound for a rebound after an awful autumn<\/a> with the arrival of Universal\u2019s Wicked: For Good<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe second half of the feature take on the Broadway musical from Winnie Holzman and music\/lyricist Stephen Schwartz is coming in hot, already Fandango\u2019s biggest PG-rated advance ticket seller<\/a> stateside, and the best pre-seller of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tSources tell us that global weekend forecast is around $200M<\/strong>+ with plenty of room for upside. Over $70 million<\/strong> is coming from 78 offshore markets and anywhere from $125M-$150M+<\/strong> at 4,000 U.S.\/Canada theaters. The first Wicked, with a $112.5M domestic\/$164M worldwide opening, set a record last year with the best start ever for a movie based on a Broadway musical<\/a>, and Wicked: For Good will break that record.<\/p>\n

\n\tNote that, on the domestic side, exhibition and rival distributors have crazy projections north of $175M million, but what\u2019s hard to read on this heavily female-leaning property are the enormous presales. Last year at the domestic box office, on Wicked\u2018s opening day, it was figured that the picture would bow to $120M. That eased to $112.5M by Monday because business was frontloaded. People continued to flock to Wicked over the Thanksgiving frame, which combined with Moana 2 to drive a record Thanksgiving box office week<\/a> of $420M. Wicked\u2018s $164M+ global debut also repped a record for a Broadway IP movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Stage Invader Who Grabbed Ariana Grande On \u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Red Carpet Jailed In Singapore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAn \u201cA\u201d CinemaScore legged Wicked out to 4.2x multiple at the domestic box office with $474.4M. International final was $284.2M \u2014 par for the course for a Broadway musical adaptation \u2014 for a grand global take of $758.7M. The film earned 10 Oscar nominations<\/a> including Best Picture, and two wins<\/a> for Production Design and Costumes.<\/p>\n

\n\tWicked: For Good currently stands at 74% fresh with critics and has a great audience score of 97% (there were Amazon sneaks); compare this to Wicked\u2018s 88% critics score and 95% audience score last year. There are large-format fan previews at 6 p.m. Wednesday, followed by Thursday previews starting at 2 p.m. stateside. The Amazon sneaks and Wednesday grosses will be rolled into Thursday. Wicked minted $19.2M in total U.S.\/Canada previews a year ago. Wicked: For Good will have Imax and premium large-format screens and will share those auditoriums with Disney\u2019s Zootopia 2 when that animated title opens Wednesday over the Thanksgiving 5-day stretch.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Zootopia 2\u2019 Set For Moviegoer Stampede Over Thanksgiving Stretch With $125M+ Debut<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wicked: For Good posse of Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, etc., and filmmaker Jon M. Chu have been a global tour which kicked off November 4 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, followed by Paris (November 7), London (November 10), Singapore (November 13) and NYC on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chu-directed movie is opening in more territories this time around than a year ago, which counted 61 and yielded an offshore start in like-for-likes, adjusted for inflation of $60.1M. Not included in this suite for Wicked: For Good is Japan (which is opening on March 6) and China. Wicked: For Good is cleared to play in the latter, but is still awaiting a date (Wicked only grossed $2M there a year ago). The top final offshore markets for Wicked were UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, and South Korea. Korea, Belgium, Phillipines and France are opening tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\n\tA year ago at the domestic box office, there was Paramount with its guy-skewing, R-rated Gladiator II, which debuted to $55M and with Wicked helped drive an overall $202.4M weekend. There is hope that sans a Gladiator II-type movie this time around, Wicked: For Good will make up the difference. That remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Rental Family\u2019 Review: Brendan Fraser In A Gentle Family Comedy About Finding Human Connection In Japan \u2013 Toronto Film Festival<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Rental<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMari Yamamoto and Brendan Fraser in \u2018Rental Family<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Lisle\/Searchlight Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso opening as older-adult counterprogramming is Searchlight\u2019s Rental Family<\/strong> in 1,925 theaters. Starring Oscar winner Brendan Fraser as an actor in Tokyo who is hired as a stand-in family member and companion for strangers, the Hikari-directed movie made its debut at the Tokyo International Film Festival and then TIFF back in the fall and has 94% fresh with RT critics.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSony Screen Gems has the Finnish WWII action sequel Sisu: Road to Revenge<\/strong> in 2,100 locations. Both are expected to do in the single digits<\/strong>. Sisu 2 stands at 96% fresh with critics. The first movie from filmmaker Jalmari Helander followed an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness and tries to take the loot into the city as German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him. Produced by Sony Worldwide Acquisitions and Stage 6 Films, the movie was released by Lionsgate in 1,006 theaters, opening to $3.3M and finaling at $7.2M domestic. Helander returns to write and direct Part 2, which centers on a man who returns to dismantle his family\u2019s house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a Red Army commander, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins. Previews in North America start at 4 p.m. Thursday at 1,900 sites.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate\u2019s No. 1 movie from last weekend<\/a>, Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t, <\/strong>hopes to have a second-weekend ease in the 50% range ($9M-$10M), still withstanding the crush from Wickek: For Good. Paramount\u2019s second frame of Edgar Wright\u2019s The Running Man <\/strong>will be harder, some believing it\u2019s around -70%, or $5M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Why \u2018The Running Man\u2019 Fell Down At The Box Office With $28M Global Opening<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like a magic spell from Glinda the Witch herself, the box office is finally bound for a rebound…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,113604,185233,67,132,68,148123],"class_list":{"0":"post-388628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-rental-family","10":"tag-sisu-road-to-revenge","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115573305251214904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}