{"id":2166620,"date":"2025-11-19T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2166620"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:12:13","slug":"wicked-for-good-aims-for-biggest-opening-of-2025-with-150-million-plus-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicked-for-good-aims-for-biggest-opening-of-2025-with-150-million-plus-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Aims for Biggest Opening of 2025 With $150 Million-Plus Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In the opening number of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19847976\/\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10793569\/\">Glinda<\/a> sings the celebratory song \u201cThank Goodness\u201d to quell the anxieties of the citizens of Oz. Cinema owners will be humming a similar tune over the weekend as the second half of the Broadway smash arrives on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19847976\/\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>\u201d is flying to $150 million to $180 million from 4,000 North American theaters in its first weekend of release, a heroic start after a dismal fall at the box office. A debut on the higher end of that range would rank as the year\u2019s biggest launch over April\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3566834\/\">A Minecraft Movie<\/a>\u201d ($162 million) and May\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11655566\/\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/a>\u201d remake ($146 million). The big-budget musical is primed to shatter the debut of 2024\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1262426\/\">Wicked<\/a>,\u201d which set a record for stage-to-screen adaptations with $112.5 million over the same pre-Thanksgiving frame.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0784875\/\">Universal<\/a>, the studio behind \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1262426\/\">Wicked<\/a>,\u201d is offering an estimate of $125 million or more for the second installment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening number of \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d Glinda sings the celebratory song \u201cThank Goodness\u201d to quell the anxieties of the citizens of Oz. Cinema owners will be humming a similar tune over the weekend as the second half of the Broadway smash arrives on the big screen. \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d is flying to $150 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2166620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Wicked-For-Good-Aims-for-Biggest-Opening-of-2025-With.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166622,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166620\/revisions\/2166622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}