Wicked: For Good Brings in $226 Million at the Global Box Office, Fourth Biggest Opening Weekend of 2025

Wicked: For Good has launched large astatine the planetary container office, bringing successful $226 cardinal to unafraid the 4th highest opening play of 2025.

The blockbuster philharmonic sequel, which sees Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo reprise their roles arsenic Glinda and Elphaba, secured $150 cardinal domestically and $76 cardinal internationally. Globally, Wicked: For Good is the fourth-best Hollywood debut of the twelvemonth down lone the Lilo & Stitch live-action remake ($341 million), Jurassic World Rebirth ($322.5 million), and A Minecraft Movie ($313 million). It’s conscionable up of the $220 cardinal opening play James Gunn’s DC Universe movie Superman brought in, and the $218 cardinal MCU movie The Fantastic Four made during the aforesaid period.

It besides acceptable a fig of container bureau records. Wicked: For Good secured the biggest planetary opening for a Broadway philharmonic adaptation, up of its predecessor, which brought successful $164.2 cardinal globally during opening weekend. Domestically, it’s the biggest debut for a Broadway philharmonic adaptation, again up of past year’s Wicked ($112.5 million).

And Wicked: For Good goes consecutive successful astatine No. 5 successful the biggest opening weekends for a philharmonic of all-time, down 2019’s The Lion King remake ($433 million), Moana 2 ($389 million), Frozen 2 ($358.4 million), and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast remake ($357 million).

Last year’s Wicked, besides directed by Jon M. Chu, ended up with $758.7 cardinal globally during its theatrical run. After specified a beardown launch, Wicked: For Good is good positioned to outperform its predecessor.

IGN’s Wicked: For Good reappraisal returned a 6/10. We said: “Wicked: For Good has each of the large parts of the archetypal movie — opulent sets, heart-wrenching songs, the cleanable pb cast—and each of its problems, too.”

Meanwhile, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is up to $146.2 cardinal worldwide aft 2 weekends. Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands, aft 3 weekends, is connected $159.6 cardinal ($76.3 cardinal home and $83.3 cardinal international).

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, starring Glenn Powell, continues to conflict astatine the container office. Weekend 2 brought successful different $5.8 cardinal for a existent home full of $27.048 million. This 2nd adaptation of the 1982 caller by Stephen King present has a planetary full of $48.348 million.

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