{"id":399751,"date":"2025-11-23T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:45:16","slug":"wicked-for-good-all-the-box-office-records-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399751\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Wicked: For Good’ – All The Box Office Records Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUniversal<\/a>\u2018s Wicked<\/a>: For Good essentially beat itself at the box office, err, the franchise\u2019s first half that is last year\u2019s Wicked. <\/p>\n

\n\tWicked: For Good<\/a> opened to $150M<\/strong> domestic, and $226M<\/strong> around the world, besting Wicked\u2018s $112.5M domestic, and $164M global start. Therefore, Wicked: For Good beat Wicked in the following records:<\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Global and Domestic Opening for a Movie Based on a Broadway Show<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Global and Domestic Opening for\u00a0Ariana Grande<\/a>\u00a0ever<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Global and Domestic Opening Ever for\u00a0Cynthia Erivo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Global and Domestic Opening Ever for filmmaker Jon M. Chu<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Opening Ever for a Musical Feature by Stephen Schwartz<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Domestic and Global Opening for Producer Marc Platt<\/strong>, Wicked: For Good outstripped the global opening of Platt\u2019s 2019 live-action take of Disney\u2019s Aladdin at $213M. His previous domestic opening high was Wicked at $112.5M. <\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest First Day at the Domestic B.O. for a Movie Based on a Broadway Musical at $68.9M<\/strong>, beating Wicked\u2018s $46.2M Friday\/previews figure a year ago.<\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Domestic Previews for a Movie Based on Broadway Musical at<\/strong> $30.8M<\/strong>, ahead of Wicked\u2018s\u00a0$19.2M previews last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBiggest Opening Ever at November Domestic Box Office for a Movie Musical<\/strong>, ahead of Disney\u2019s Moana 2 ($139.7M).<\/p>\n

\n\t2nd Biggest Opening at the 2025 Domestic Box Office<\/strong> (as of Nov. 23), ahead of\u00a0Lilo & Stich\u00a0($146M) and behind only\u00a0A Minecraft Movie ($162.7M).<\/p>\n

\n\t2nd Biggest Opening for Universal of All-Time at the Domestic Box Office<\/strong>, behind only 2015\u2019s\u00a0Jurassic World ($208.8M).<\/p>\n

\n\t2nd Biggest Domestic Opening Prior To Thanksgiving Holiday<\/strong>, behind only 2013\u2019s\u00a0The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($158M).<\/p>\n

\n\t2nd Biggest Global Promotional Partner Campaign Ever for a Hollywood Studio at $330M<\/strong>, that\u2019s with 400 partners, and it\u2019s just behind Wicked\u2018s $350M promo partner media value a year ago.<\/p>\n

\n\t3rd Highest Opening Weekend for a Movie Musical Of All-Time At The Domestic Box Office<\/strong>, behind 2019\u2019s\u00a0The Lion King\u00a0($191.7M) and 2017\u2019s\u00a0Beauty and the Beast\u00a0($174.7M) and ahead of\u00a0Moana 2 ($139.7M Friday-Sunday take in what was a $225.4M five-day opening over Thanksgiving<\/a> last year).<\/p>\n

\n\t3rd Highest Opening Weekend at November Domestic Box Office <\/strong>after Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($181.3M) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($158M). <\/p>\n

\n\t4th Biggest Global Hollywood Movie Opening of 2025<\/strong> behind Jurassic World Rebirth, A Minecraft Movie and\u00a0Lilo & Stitch, and ahead of\u00a0Superman\u00a0and\u00a0The Fantastic Four.<\/p>\n

\n\t5th Highest Global Opening of a Musical of All-Time <\/strong>behind\u00a0The Lion King (2019), Moana 2, Frozen 2\u00a0and\u00a0Beauty and the Beast, and ahead of\u00a0Aladdin, The Little Mermaid\u00a0and 2024\u2019s\u00a0Wicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal\u2018s Wicked: For Good essentially beat itself at the box office, err, the franchise\u2019s first half that is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,67,132,941,68,17498,148123],"class_list":{"0":"post-399751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-universal","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wicked","14":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115600734751324015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399751","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=399751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}