Released on Friday to incredible box office success, Universal's Wicked: For Good has broken several records for Broadway adaptations already. The film passed a handful of older fantasy and musical movies in its debut weekend, which goes to show just how massive its performance was. The film's $223 million haul is bigger than what most studio movies, besides the outright bombs, are able to gross in their lifetime runs. For instance, it took Wicked 2 just one day to pass the lifetime global box office haul of Universal's own Cats , which was released to toxic reviews in 2019, and now remains destined for a lifetime of mockery.

And it took Wicked 2 just three days in theaters to overtake one of the best fantasy films ever made , director Ang Lee 's Crouching Tiger

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