Musicals aren’t probably the most profitable style on the field workplace (see: “Cats,” “Pricey Evan Hansen” and “Joker: Folie à Deux”). However song-and-dance movies could also be having fun with — as Glinda sings — a newfound recognition with “Depraved,” Common’s adaptation of Act One of many beloved Broadway present.

The movie collected $114 million in North America and a further $50.2 million internationally, bringing its world tally to $165 million over the weekend. It’s an enormous win for film theaters (ticket gross sales have been stubbornly behind 2023 and pre-pandemic occasions) and Common (for the reason that studio has to promote “Depraved: Half Two,” chronicling the musical’s second act, to audiences in 2025). Every installment price $150 million to supply, not together with its inescapable pink-and-green advertising marketing campaign. So “Depraved” must resonate on the world field workplace by way of Thanksgiving of subsequent 12 months to justify these mega value tags. Then “thank goodness,” as Glinda additionally sings within the present, that essential evaluations and viewers sentiment have been euphoric.

Jon M. Chu directed the PG “Depraved,” which stars Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh and Jonathan Bailey. Set earlier than, throughout and after “The Wizard of Oz,” the story tells the origins of Grande’s Glinda (later often called Glinda the Good) and Erivo’s Elphaba (finally dubbed the Depraved Witch of the West) earlier than Dorothy landed in Oz and sauntered down the Yellow Brick Street. 

Right here’s all of the data from opening weekend:

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