Wicked' beats 'Grease' becoming the top grossing movie based on a Broadway musical at the domestic box office with $263M+

According to Deadline, Wicked is now the highest-grossing movie based on a Broadway musical domestically, reaching $214.3M in domestic box office grosses as of Friday, November 29th.

The highly anticipated Wicked movie directed by Jon M. Chu has taken the box office by storm, setting an historic record for Broadway musical adaptations. Based on the 2003 Broadway… The post Wicked Flies Past Grease to Become the Top Broadway Musical at the Box Office appeared first on Where Is The Buzz | Breaking News,

While Wicked doesn’t alter major plot points of the musical, it does expand upon characters, their backstories, and relationships. That’s one of the big reasons why the film is split in two, with part one being just as long as the musical’s entirety.

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Universal's Thanksgiving pic opened to an estimated $114 million over the Nov. 22-24 weekend, more than three times the previous domestic record-holder, 'Into the Woods.'