Weekend Box Office: 'Wicked: For Good' Soars With $150m Opening

Weekend Box Office: 'Wicked: For Good' Soars With $150m Opening

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Finally, the Winter season at the box office gets an undisputed mega-hit. Wicked: For Good may not make much sense from a narrative perspective — did this really need to be split into two parts when the second half of the musical is so wonky and in dire need of a rewrite? — but it was a genius move by Universal for commercial success. The musical sequel was riding the high of the first movie, as well as the current cultural omnipresence of its cast. The audience was there, and they flew out in droves for Wicked: For Good . It brought in an impressive $150 million from 4,115 theatres. That’s a big step up from the $112.5 million the first one made in its do