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$200 Million.

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$300,000,000 for Wicked Part One (2024) and Part Two (2025). Variety predicts it will dazzle. I suspect it will fizzle.

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I agree with your prediction on this one.

Especially when the lady playing the wicked witch has been spreading cancer on Twitter.

Not exactly Rachel Ziegler levels of cancer, but it should be enough to put a musical nobody wanted to see in theaters in the red.


Also, as a 45 year male I can appreciate what people see in Ariana Grande. I wouldn't be taking any kids of mine to see her. I don't think they possibly could have chosen somebody worse for the roll of Dorothy.

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Also, as a 45 year male I can appreciate what people see in Ariana Grande. I wouldn't be taking any kids of mine to see her. I don't think they possibly could have chosen somebody worse for the roll of Dorothy.

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There is no Dorothy! Ariana Grande is the Good Witch! Ariana Grande (who plays Galinda, aka Glinda the Good) and Cynthia Erivo (who plays Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West).

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Ah. Okay...

Sorry. I'm not up on my Broadway musicals or the Extended Wizard of Oz Universe.

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Ariana Grande is perfect for the role because: "before Grande was a megafamous pop star, before she was even a breakout actress on a Nickelodeon television show, she was a theater kid. The “thank u, next” singer charmed in a local production of Annie at 8 years old, and landed her first big gig at 15, as an original cast member of the Broadway musical 13. Though she swiftly moved onto the screen (in the teen show Victorious) and up the charts (with a handful of high-selling albums), Grande remains known for her love of the stage, still managing to do projects like 2016’s Hairspray Live! She is also, famously, a mentee of Kristin Chenoweth, Broadway’s original Galinda, and has commented on Galinda being her dream role since she first saw Wicked as a tween. If Grande’s Broadway tenure and her musical legend of a mentor weren’t enough to prove her theater-kid bona fides, Grande has also shown a breadth of musical knowledge that only a true stan of the stage could possess."

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Yeah... But this.

That's a particularly cute outfit she has on in the 3rd video. It's the same one my dominatrix wears while putting me up naked on the stretcher and stomping on my balls in between the whippings.

Half of the dads in that audience doing their best to think of baseball stats and war so they don't sport chubs with their daughters standing right next to them. Yanno... because they brought their daughters to a burlesque show.

I'm not a parent, but I know I wouldn't be taking my impressionable daughter to see anything Grande is involved with if I were.

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Maybe the movie can be as lucrative as the Broadway musical:
In 2016, Wicked surpassed $1 billion in total Broadway revenue, joining The Phantom of the Opera and The Lion King as the only Broadway shows to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(musical)

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Gladiator 2 is right around a coin flip whether or not it breaks even, and that's only because the international audience went out to see this movie of 3-to-1 on the domestic attendance.

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Gladiator 2 is right around a coin flip whether or not it breaks even, and that's only because the international audience went out to see this movie of 3-to-1 on the domestic attendance.

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You don't believe in their other excuses? merchandise, t-shirts, DVDs, streaming download subscriptions...anyways its not Marvel DC or Mario or 'Sonic' so I don't expect them to sell any toys.

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That quote of mine is old news after I saw your article on Gladiator II. The only reason the International ratio was so high is because it had a full week head start and likely pulled in 85 to 90 million overseas before it made 50 million this weekend. I put that all in a post earlier.

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‘Wicked’ Defies Gravity With Record November Monday Of $15.6M, ‘Gladiator II’ Slays $5.5M – Box Office

https://deadline.com/2024/11/box-office-wicked-monday-record-123618772
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That’s the best Monday ever for November, better than Frozen II ($12.7M on November 25, 2019), better than The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($12.3M, November 25, 2013), higher than Skyfall ($11.3M, November 12, 2012) and bigger than post-Covid’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($11.1M, November 14, 2022). Wicked‘s domestic total shoots up to $128.1M through four days.

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