zzmyth Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 2 hours ago, genio said: It's already almost at 150m WW. With Germany having its official release date today and Japan in 2025. yeah... and with china already crossed off. The film is at 135M. And from those... 70M came from the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ. I mean... Outside the anglosphere... this made ZERO noise. It did amazing in the US and UK, that is FACT. But outside those markets... it flopped hard, and that is what I meant in the beginning. 2
genio Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 1 minute ago, zzmyth said: yeah... and with china already crossed off. The film is at 135M. And from those... 70M came from the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ. I mean... Outside the anglosphere... this made ZERO noise. It did amazing in the US and UK, that is FACT. But outside those markets... it flopped hard, and that is what I meant in the beginning. $135m WW gross, excluding the US, is not flopping or underperforming. For the fact that it's a musical, it's good enough. I mean, it's 3 weeks in, not released in two of the biggest markets for the box office and we still have the holiday season going on for 2 weeks. You think it will only pull $15m more in its international gross when it has done $135m in 3 weeks? I mean, everyone is entitled to their predictions. 3 2 1
genio Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 11 minutes ago, zzmyth said: The film is at 135M. And from those... 70M came from the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ. I mean... Outside the anglosphere... this made ZERO noise. You say it made ZERO noise while just proving otherwise with the fact you posted above. From those $135m, it made $70m in the Anglosphere, where, according to you, it made "noise", but outside of it it hasn't, when it made $75m OUTSIDE of the Anglosphere in 3 weeks (more than the Anglosphere). The biggest and most popular Broadway film adaptions/musicals are between $100m and $300m WW gross (excl. US). I don't understand what makes Wicked not fit in this category according to you. ASIB grossed $221m, TGSM grossed $294m, HSM3 grossed $162m and Dreamgirls grossed $52m internationally, for example those are all considered a big success for a musical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_musical_films Wicked is currently just pacing outside of the Top 20 at #21 of the highest grossing musical films of all time. I think that's pretty good. 1
Radical Pessimism Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago 2 hours ago, Jude said: Critics do LOVE this film holy moly. Well deserved
Tm4074 Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 1 hour ago, zzmyth said: yeah... and with china already crossed off. The film is at 135M. And from those... 70M came from the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ. I mean... Outside the anglosphere... this made ZERO noise. It did amazing in the US and UK, that is FACT. But outside those markets... it flopped hard, and that is what I meant in the beginning. The mental gymnastics you keep doing to frame this movie as a flop needs to be studied lol. No it isn't what you meant in the beginning. You said it won't surpass $350M domestic which was very wrong lmao. And "zero noise" being over half the international gross so far is outside the Anglosphere. It's doing well in South Korea too and as far as I know they don't speak English there. And so what if it didn't perform as well outside of English speaking countries? Broadway adaptations typically don't do as well outside of the Anglosphere since you need to understand English due to the lyrics of the songs being integral to the overall narrative. Mamma Mia! is the exception because it's a jukebox musical covering ABBA songs - one of the biggest pop groups internationally and the songs aren't essential to the narrative. WICKED will very likely surpass Mamma Mia! overall gross and become the highest grossing Broadway adaptation. And Part 2 will only add to that. Maybe just take the L here. Edited 1 hour ago by Tm4074
Mikeymoonshine Posted 43 minutes ago Posted 43 minutes ago 18 hours ago, Peroxide said: I couldn't disagree more with the bold. That literally makes the scene. That was the moment that really hit me and started the water works... I'm glad you liked it but that song worked a lot better on stage for me than it did in the film for this reason. It's the best moment in the whole show.
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