{"id":2167009,"date":"2025-11-19T18:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167009"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:37:15","slug":"wicked-for-good-to-kick-off-a-huge-winter-box-office-with-150-million-plus-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicked-for-good-to-kick-off-a-huge-winter-box-office-with-150-million-plus-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 to Kick Off a Huge Winter Box Office With $150 Million-Plus Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The wait is finally over. After weeks of weekend overall grosses below $100 million, theaters are about to get the end-of-year boom period they have been salivating for, starting this Friday with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0784875\/\">Universal<\/a>\u2019s \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 The follow-up is expected to be massive, with tracking putting it at a $150 million opening weekend \u2014 at least.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a year ago when Universal put all of its chips down on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0160840\/\">Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u2019s adaptation of the \u201cWizard of Oz\u201d Broadway musical starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7248827\/\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3812858\/\">Ariana Grande<\/a>. The studio spared no expense on a no-holds-barred marketing campaign rivaled only in recent years by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a>\u2019 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1517268\/\">Barbie<\/a>\u201d promotion blitz, aggressively promoting&#8230;<\/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>The wait is finally over. After weeks of weekend overall grosses below $100 million, theaters are about to get the end-of-year boom period they have been salivating for, starting this Friday with Universal\u2019s \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d The follow-up is expected to be massive, with tracking putting it at a $150 million opening weekend \u2014 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167010,"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-2167009","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-to-Kick-Off-a-Huge-Winter-Box.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167009","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=2167009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167011,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167009\/revisions\/2167011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}