Depraved: For Good, Jon M. Chu’s concluding a part of Common’s Broadway present adaptation, obliterated the competitors because it opened prime on an estimated $150m from 4,115 places to ship the second highest North American opening weekend of 2025 behind A Minecraft Film.
This was manner forward of Depraved’s $112.2m opening weekend nearly precisely a yr in the past, and the brand new movie’s $226m world bow boosts the franchise’s field workplace to $984m. It’ll cross the $1bn goal inside days, heading into the North American Thanksgiving vacation week.
Depraved: For Good earned an A CinemaScore ranking and Common executives stated the $150m gross delivered the most important opening weekend for a Broadway adaptation, forward of 2024’s Depraved; the second highest opening weekend for a Common Footage movie behind 2015’s Jurassic World; the second highest-opening weekend previous to Thanksgiving behind The Starvation Video games: Catching Hearth; and the third highest-grossing opening weekend for a musical of all time behind 2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Magnificence And The Beast.
There have been opening weekend information too for stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo because the returning witches Glinda and Elphaba, in addition to for Chu, and producer Marc Platt.
The tentpole grossed $15.5m on Imax screens, over-indexing barely given Imax accounted for 11% of complete North American display screen share, and scored Imax’s largest November field and its second largest for a household movie.
Grande and Erivo return as Glinda and Elphaba, the 2 protagonists on converging paths who begin the movie underneath separate and really completely different circumstances. Glinda is having fun with rock star standing within the Emerald Metropolis whereas her good friend Elphaba dwells within the Ozian forest preventing to free the silenced Animals and expose the reality about The Wizard. Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh additionally star.
Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t positioned second on $9.1m from 3,403 after a 57% slide within the second weekend for a $36.8m operating complete, adopted by Disney/Fox’s Predator: Badlands on $6.3m from 3,100 websites after a 51% drop for $76.3m after three classes; and Paramount’s The Working Man, which tumbled 65% in its second weekend on $5.8m from 3,534 venues for a $27m cumulative tally.
Searchlight’s awards hopeful Rental Household, directed by Beef’s Hikari and starring Brendan Fraser as an actor who finds which means by working as a stand-in for strangers, arrived in fifth place $3.3m from 1,925 websites and is designed to construct out in the course of the coming weeks.
The one different opener within the prime 10 was Jalmari Helmander’s motion sequel Sisu: The Highway To Revenge, which arrived by way of Sony Display Gems on $2.6m from 2,222 websites. Jorma Tommila returns because the fearsome Finn who’s to not be messed with, and the movie opened behind the unique’s $3.3m debut by means of Lionsgate in April 2023. That movie completed on $7.3m in North America.
Sony Classics’ postwar thriller Nuremberg ranks eighth after three weekends on $11m, and Common’s horror Black Telephone 2 in ninth place stands at $76.4m after six classes.
General, field workplace amounted to $185.5m and pushed the year-to-date quantity to $7.5bn, which tracks 3.3% forward of 2024 by the identical stage.
