Wicked Could be set to join the billion-dollar club. The 2024 movie is part of a long series of adaptations and reinterpretations. This story is an introduction to L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, the first of which was adapted into Judy Garland’s musical classic The Wizard of Oz in 1939. The story originated as the Gregory Maguire novel of the same name, which was first published in 1995 and spawned a book series of its own. This, in turn, was adapted into a stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Vinnie Holtzman.
The upcoming WickedAdapting the stage musical to the big screen, it was directed by Jon M. Chu and stars Cynthia Erivo as the future Wicked Witch of the West Elphaba opposite Ariana Grande as the future Good Witch of the South Galinda. The ensemble cast also includes Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jeff Goldblum as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar, Ethan Slater as Boq, Bowen Yang as Pfannee, Keala Settle as Miss Coddle, and Peter Dinklage as Doctor Delamond. The movie will be The first of a two-part adaptation splitting the story in half.
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Wicked’s Ticket Pre-Sale Record Puts It In Elite Box Office Company In 2024
It has amazing results for a PG movie
on the 10th of October, Fandango announced that the Wizard of Oz Prequel hit several major milestones in ticket pre-sales on its first day. In addition to having the third-best first-day presales of all time for a PG-rated movie, it earned The best first-day PG presales of the year so farBest Pixar’s Inside Out 2Which is the current number 1 movie worldwide. It also earned the second-best first-day presales of the year overall, just behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe offering Deadpool & Wolverine.
Wicked Has the potential to become the next 2024 movie to climb over $1 billion.
Both Inside out And Deadpool & Wolverine Earned more than $1 billion, and in fact are the only two 2024 movies to do so at the time of writing. moreover, Inside outIts $1.69 billion gross made it the highest-grossing animated feature of all timeBeating the photorealistic 2019 feature The Lion King. so too, Deadpool & WolverineThe $1.33 billion total makes it the seventh highest grossing installment of the 34 existing movies in the MCU. The success of both movies indicates Wicked Has the potential to become the next 2024 movie to climb over $1 billion.
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Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine were both record-breakers
The precedent of the previous hit movies shows that Wicked Could very well earn one of the best domestic opening weekends of 2024 off the back of its pre-sale success. At the time of writing, Both movies had the best opening weekends of the year so farwith Inside Out 2 Debuting to $154.2 million and Deadpool & Wolverine grossing $211.4 million during its domestic opening weekend. While the latter title had the No. 1 debut of the year, it ultimately fell behind the Pixar title in terms of overall worldwide gross, likely due to very different MPAA ratings.
If it follows the lead of the previous releases, Wicked May its domestic opening weekend land in a range between $150 and $200 million. This would easily put it in the Top 3 debuts of the year, as the third best debut of the year so far belongs to the Tim Burton legacy sequel. Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceThat only earned $111 million.
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International markets need to embrace the musical
One potential hurdle for the Wicked Movie is the fact that It will need a strong international gross on top of its domestic gross to reach the $1 billion mark. Both previous hits were bought by overseas markets, which were familiar with their respective franchises. The original Inside out In 2015, it was a smash hit, earning more than $500 million internationally. Deadpool & Wolverine Simultaneously belongs to two successful franchises, namely the X-Men series and the MCU.
It remains to be seen if Wicked has the same kind of appeal worldwide. However, the original musical should be very familiar to global audiences. Since it opened on Broadway in 2003, Productions of the show have been mounted around the world In locations including London’s West End, Germany, Mexico, Korea, Holland, Japan and Australia on top of a two-year international tour that took place between 2016 and 2018. Already have for the property.
Source: Fandango