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‘Wicked – Part One’: All The Box Office Records Broken


'Wicked - Part One': All The Box Office Records Broken

Biggest Domestic Opening for a Pop Star, with Wicked besting the first films sold around the likeness of such performing artists as Lady Gaga ( A Star Is Born at $42.5M), Harry Styles ( Don’t Worry Darling at $19.3M), Britney Spears ( Crossroads at $14.5M), Taylor Swift ( Cats at $6.6M), Madonna (Desperately Seeking Susan at $1.5M), and the entire domestic gross of Michael Jackson’s The Wiz($21M unadjusted for inflation). 5th biggest domestic opening for a musical feature ever, behind 2019’s The Lion King($191.7M), 2017’s Beauty and the Beast($174.7M), 2023’s Barbie($162M — it did have people singing and plenty of showstopping numbers!) 6th biggest opening at the Global Box Office for a Musical Feature behind 2019’s The Lion King($446M), 2017’s Beauty and the Beast($358M), Frozen 2($358M), Barbie($356.3M) and 2019’s Aladdin($213M).

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