'Wicked: For Good' opens to a record $150 million

FILM-BOX-OFFICE-WICKED:'Wicked: For Good' opens to a record $150 million

By Dawn Chmielewski

LOS ANGELES -"Wicked: For Good" brought in $150 million in the U.S. and Canada in its opening weekend, setting a record for a film adaptation of a Broadway musical and ranking among the best-performing musicals of all time, according to the studio.

The second half of the big-screen adaptation of "Wicked," which reunites Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba with Ariana Grande's Glinda, posted the third-best domestic opening weekend for a musical ever, behind Disney's 2019 photorealistic computer-generated version of "The Lion King" and its 2017 remake of "Beauty and the Beast," according to Universal Pictures and Comscore's box office tallies.

"Wicked: For Good" also helped lift a moribund North American box