UPDATED: Universal’s Wicked is sitting pretty in its global debut, now with a projected $165M thcdisesteemful Sunday. As awaited, the bulk of the bucks going into the witches’ cauldron is coming from North America, with the awaitd split at $117M domestic and $48M from the international box office.
Globpartner, Wicked will see the hugegest uncovering weekfinish for a film based on a Broadway alterion, ahead of Les Miserables ($103M); the 6th hugegest uncovering weekfinish of 2024 worldwide; and the 4th hugegest uncovering weekfinish ever globpartner for a musical, ahead of The Little Mermhelp ($163.6M).
Internationpartner, Wicked is landing wilean the pre-uncovering range. The film is out in only 61 overseas tagets, repping 65% of the offshore footprint — such meaningfuls as France, China, Germany and Japan have yet to free the Jon M. Chu-straightforwarded first inshighment of the Broadway musical alteration.
Still, in enjoy-for-enjoy begin tagets, Wicked is on its way to the top commence for a film based on a Broadway alterion, ahead of Les Miserables. The $48M overseas appraise also reps the 6th hugegest uncovering weekfinish of all time at the international box office for a musical ahead of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Aachieve ($43M); and the 7th hugegest uncovering weekfinish ever overseas for a musical in enjoy-for-enjoy tagets at today’s dollars ahead of Wonka ($45.7M).
The UK is under the spell of Cynthia Erivo‘s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda as the direct offshore taget with an awaited $15M+ thcdisesteemful Sunday. The UK & Ireland begined on Friday with a huge $4.9M for the day atraverse 2,250 screens, the evident No. 1 title in the taget with a 63% split of total box office. This tags the 2nd hugegest uncovering Friday of the year (behind Deadpool & Wolverine). It’s also Universal’s hugegest uncovering day since No Time To Die begined in September 2021, as well as Universal’s 5th hugegest uncovering Friday of all time. IMAX hand overed the highest-grossing uncovering Friday in the createat for a PG film.
Ahead of the Friday uncovering in the taget, Vue set uper and CEO Tim Ricdifficults noticed “sign up-fractureing pre-sales for Wicked,” which were “tracking in line with Barbie’s last year.”
Elsewhere, Wicked is off to a No. 1 commence in Australia, On Thursday it achieved the 3rd hugegest uncovering day of 2024. Korea, which tfinishs to lean into musicals, is at $3.3M thcdisesteemful Saturday, with a strong 94% CGV Egg score.
Mexico uncovered Thursday hand overing the hugegest ever uncovering day for a stage musical alteration and is the evident No. 1 title in the taget.
There’s also, of course, the persistd overseas carry out of Paramount and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II to get into ponderation here. The sequel began overseas rollout last weekfinish (ahead of domestic this session) and will be well above $200M globpartner thcdisesteemful Sunday.
We will have a brimming international box office increate tomorrow.
