Elphaba is green, and Wicked: For Good is covered in the color, too—on account of all the money audiences dumped on the movie this weekend.
The second half of the Broadway adaptation snatched $150 million from American audiences in its opening weekend. (That’s nearly $38 million more than the first movie earned in the same timeframe.) Internationally, For Good took in $76 million, bringing its worldwide open to $226 million. Who can say if that performance changed the box office for the better, but it certainly changed Wicked for good—at least, for this week.
Wicked: For Good pulled back the curtain on the magicians in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, who—despite last weekend’s numbers being a franchise best—found themselves strapped for cash this weekend. Their earnings dropped more than 50% from last Movie Monday (a theme for every movie not named Wicked). Now You Don’t took second place with $9.1 million. That brings its domestic total to $36.8 million and its worldwide cume to $146.2 million.
Third place goes to Predator: Badlands (entering its third weekend since release). It hunted down a $6.3 million bounty. Its U.S. earnings currently rest at $76.3 million. With a slightly better international showing at $83.3 million, its worldwide cume ends up at $159.6 million.
The Running Man found itself winded in fourth place. Its fourth-place ribbon goes for $5.8 million. In the United States, it’s taken in $27 million. Put that trophy on the trophy shelf, and the whole thing is worth about $48.3 million.
Brendan Fraser’s dramedy Rental Family debuted in fifth place with $3.3 million. And as for other noteworthy newcomers, Sisu: Road to Revenge shot its way into sixth. The bounty on its head? $2.6 million.
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