{"id":133843,"date":"2024-12-01T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=133843"},"modified":"2024-12-01T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:34:17","slug":"wicked-beats-grease-as-the-highest-grossing-broadway-movie-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wicked-beats-grease-as-the-highest-grossing-broadway-movie-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked beats Grease as the highest-grossing broadway movie in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wicked<\/strong>, Directed by Jon M. Chu and starring <strong>Cynthia Erivo<\/strong> and <strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong>, has officially become the highest-grossing film based on a Broadway musical at the domestic box office. With $214.3M in its second weekend, it\u2019s beaten <strong>Grease<\/strong> and is on track to rake in $263M by Sunday. Globally, it\u2019s already secured $358M, making it the fourth highest-grossing Broadway movie worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1862965329342959641\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Wicked\u2019 officially becomes the highest-grossing musical adaptation of all time at the domestic box office, surpassing \u2018Grease.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yF59ioe0KB\">pic.twitter.com\/yF59ioe0KB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1862965329342959641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This success comes amidst tight competition, with Disney\u2019s <strong>Moana 2<\/strong> dominating Thanksgiving weekend. Yet, Wicked managed to capture viewers, setting records like the best Black Friday box office for a musical and the strongest global debut in the genre. And the soundtrack? Fans are clearly vibing to &#8220;Defying Gravity&#8221; and &#8220;Popular,&#8221; and with Part Two set for 2025, Wicked will continue flying high.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s achievements don\u2019t stop there. While it\u2019s got some way to go to break into the top five live-action musicals domestically (led by Barbie, Disney&#8217;s live actions for The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin), Wicked has become a cultural phenomenon in only a couple of weeks after its premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicked, Directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, has officially become the highest-grossing film based on a Broadway musical at the domestic box office. With $214.3M in its second weekend, it\u2019s beaten Grease and is on track to rake in $263M by Sunday. Globally, it\u2019s already secured $358M, making it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":133844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133843"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=133843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}