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Can Wicked Defy Box Office Records?
Can it top Les Mis? Its own budget? Live-action Simba?
It seems like every big budget picture has the entire continued existence of Hollywood, the dream factory, resting on it shoulders. The films are as heavily merchandized as Barbie before them, all of Twitter is holding space for discourse about the press tour, and Wicked part one follows a series of Broadway musical flops (or at least perceived flops: West Side Story, In the Heights, The Color Purple, and Dear Even Hansen all underperformed. If it stopped there, which it won’t, Wicked would already have the 3rd biggest domestic opening of the year, following Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2.
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