Wicked For Good box office: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo film mints $226M; beats Snow White lifetime haul in just 3 days

Wicked For Good box office collection has soared past $200 million worldwide in just its opening weekend.

Updated on: Nov 24, 2025, 11:42:26 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Wicked For Good box office collection: The sequel to Wicked - Wicked: For Good - has surpassed expectations at the box office in its opening weekend. The Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo-starrer had been projected to open at $145 million in North America, but soared past that mark easily, and added a substantial amount overseas.

Ariana Grande as Glinda in Wicked: For Good.

Wicked for Good opens at $226 million worldwide

Wicked: For Good brought in $150 million in the U.S. and Canada in its opening weekend, according to the studio. This is a new record for a film adaptation of a Broadway musical. The film now ranks among the best-performing movie musicals of all time after just its opening weekend.

The sequel to Wicked, which reunites Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba with Ariana Grande's Glinda, has the third-best domestic opening weekend for a musical ever, behind Disney's 2019 The Lion King and the 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast, according to Universal Pictures and Comscore's box office tallies.

The first Wicked had earned $111 million in North America in its opening weekend, which means the sequel has comfortably surpassed it.

Wicked for Good beats Snow White, Joker 2 in just three days

Box Office Mojo reported that the film added $76 million overseas in its first three days at the box office, giving it a worldwide gross of $226 million. This makes Wicked For Good the 18th highest-grossing film of 2025 already. It has surpassed the lifetime collection of films like Snow White ($205 million), One Battle After Another ($202 million), and Joker: Folie à Deux ($207 million).

Wicked For Good is a retelling of The Wizard of Oz, based on the long-running Broadway musical, itself adapted from Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel. Part two follows Glinda and Elphaba -- now dubbed the Wicked Witch of the West -- as they struggle against the nefarious machinations of The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh).

(With agencies inputs)

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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