WICKED is now playing!

Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 : 99% - 2.5k Aud.
IMDb 🚕 : 7.8 - 2.3k
Letterboxd ✉️ : 4.3 - 1.2k
Sing-along screenings for WICKED will release in US theaters on 25 Dec 🎤 please come to aus 🥺

WICKED is described by critics and audiences alike as the best musical since MAMMA MIA! and LA LA LAND, with many highlighting Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as the potential leads for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively at the Oscars 🏆

Wicked is tracking to open with $165M-$200M on its worldwide opening weekend 💸
The Hollywood Reporter expects Wicked, Gladiator II and Moana 2 to "fuel" the biggest Thanksgiving weekend in history at the box office, expecting around $300M 🦃

A critic says "the trailer doesn't do the finished film justice" in regards to the colouring

As for the colouring of the film, social medias utilize something called Standard Projection, which basically means that it washes out the colours of the film, whereas Dolby Atmos (found in cinemas) provide better resolution, image depth, colour resolution and contrast 🎨

This includes the global Journey Through Oz premiere tour, starting in Australia and moving onto different parts of the globe, transforming them into sections of the Land of Oz 🪄

Similar to BARBIE, WICKED takes ordinary billboard, social media campaigns and merchandise tie-ins and ramps it up to 100

One cannot escape the pink and green 🩷💚
The marketing for WICKED mirrors the buzz for the summer of BARBIE in 2023

Act 2 of the WICKED play is often regarded as the worst due to a vague and rushed plot and pacing, and various plot holes 📽️

⚠️Minor Spoiler⚠️
The film ends on Defying Gravity, the end of Act 1, as it is the highest and most climactic point of the play of which they can end Part 1, and is also the prelude to the intermission 🎭

Both the director and cast have said in interviews that they didn't want to cram or cut songs or characters to fit the story into one movie 📚

Director, Jon M Chu, has stated that since the songs in WICKED are critical to the core of the story and provide too much context that, if they were cut, would take away from said context and essential insights into the characters 🧹

The DUNE novel was split into two parts for its film adaptation, Part 1 (Book 1: Dune, Book 2: Muad'dib) and Part 2 (Book 3: The Prophet)
Why was this done? bc the story of DUNE was too long and complex to be adapted into a single movie without being a disservice to the novel 🪱

Starting off... for those wondering why WICKED was split into two parts, it's situation is similar to Denis Villeneuve's DUNE films... ⏳