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Wicked director tells audience members to ask cinemas to turn up the volume
Jon M Chu encouraged fans to take their audio experience into their own hands, ahead of the film’s opening weekend
Universal Pictures’ adaptation of the Tony award-winning Broadway smash, based on Gregory Maguire’s novel of the same name, is already proving popular with audiences, taking $114m in North America and an additional $50.2m internationally over the weekend, bringing its global total to $165m – the fourth-largest start in history for a musical. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/REX/ShutterstockAlex Temesvari, general manager of the Hayden Orpheum movie theatre in Sydney, which uses Dolby audio systems, said there hadn’t been any requests so far from audience members wanting the volume turned up on Wicked. It’s not unprecedented for audiences to complain about sound: one director who attracts criticism is Christopher Nolan, with films including Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises and Tenet variously described as being too loud, too quiet or too muffled.
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