{"id":390296,"date":"2025-11-19T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390296\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:41:12","slug":"for-good-box-office-opening-weekend-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390296\/","title":{"rendered":"For Good’ Box Office Opening Weekend Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the opening number of \u201cWicked: For Good<\/a>,\u201d Glinda sings the celebratory song \u201cThank Goodness\u201d to quell the anxieties of the citizens of Oz. Cinema owners will be humming a similar tune over the weekend as the second half of the Broadway smash arrives on the big screen. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d is flying to $150 million to $180 million from 4,000 North American theaters in its first weekend of release, a heroic start after a dismal fall at the box office. A debut on the higher end of that range would rank as the year\u2019s biggest launch over April\u2019s \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d ($162 million) and May\u2019s \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d remake ($146 million). The big-budget musical is primed to shatter the debut of 2024\u2019s \u201cWicked,\u201d which set a record for stage-to-screen adaptations with $112.5 million over the same pre-Thanksgiving frame.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal, the studio behind \u201cWicked,\u201d is offering an estimate of $125 million or more for the second installment. It\u2019s a slightly more conservative figure because projections for the first film were lofty \u2014 with some exhibitors suggesting above $130 million \u2014 before ticket sales floated to a still-spectacular $112.5 million. Box office prognosticators are bullish, however, because \u201cWicked\u201d is a known entity this time around and \u201cFor Good\u201d is billed as the must-see conclusion to Elphaba and Glinda\u2019s epic journey down the Yellow Brick Road.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d will loom over the domestic box office charts as two other newcomers, Sony\u2019s bloody action thriller \u201cSisu: Road to Revenge\u201d and Searchlight\u2019s dramedy \u201cRental Family\u201d try to serve as counter-programming against the pink-and-green musical. \u201cSisu 2\u201d is aiming for $3 million from 2,100 venues. Those ticket sales are similar to 2022\u2019s \u201cSisu,\u201d which ignited to $3.3 million before tapping out with $7 million domestically and $14 million globally. \u201cRental Family,\u201d starring Brendan Fraser as a struggling actor who lands the not-so-plum job of playing stand-in roles for strangers in Japan, is also targeting a debut in the low single digits from 1,900 North American locations.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Jon M. Chu, \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d chronicles the second act of the stage show as the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) attempt to turn all of Oz against Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo<\/a>) and brand her as the Wicked Witch of the West. Meanwhile, the green witch\u2019s perky BFF (Ariana Grande<\/a>) embraces her public persona as Glinda the Good. \u201cFor Good\u201d will certainly electrify the box office, but a question is whether this entry will enjoy the same kind of staying power as the original. \u201cWicked\u201d became the biggest Broadway adaptation ever with $756 million globally. Like the initial installment, positive word-of-mouth and the catchy soundtrack are likely to drive repeat business through the rest of the year. However, the second half of \u201cWicked\u201d is much darker and doesn\u2019t have as many memorable songs as than the musical\u2019s fizzy first act. Universal produced the two-part extravaganza for $300 million, not including the outsized marketing budgets.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d and Disney\u2019s animated comedy \u201cZootopia 2,\u201d which opens on Nov. 26, look to end November on a high note. It\u2019s shaping up to be a huge Thanksgiving for movie theaters as these blockbusters attempt to break the record set over last Turkey Day<\/a> with $433 million across all films, led by \u201cWicked: Part 1,\u201d \u201cMoana 2\u201d and \u201cGladiator II.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is great news after a rather dismal month of October,\u201d says Comscore\u2019s head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the opening number of \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d Glinda sings the celebratory song \u201cThank Goodness\u201d to quell the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179,26732,171,67,132,68,148123],"class_list":{"0":"post-390296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-cynthia-erivo","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115577361949858125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390296","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=390296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}