“Wicked”, the new live-action, musical fantasy feature, directed by Jon M. Chu, adapting characters from L.Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz”, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, earned ‘domestic’ $114,000,000 and ‘international’ $50,180,000 for a ‘worldwide’ box office gross of $164,180,000 after 3 days in theatrical release:
“…set in the ‘Land of Oz’, before and continuing after the arrival of ‘Dorothy Gale' from Kansas…
“…the new film follows ‘Elphaba Thropp’. a green-skinned woman, and explores the path that leads her to become the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’…
‘… all while forming an unlikely friendship and later rivalry with ‘Glinda Upland’…
“…who would go on to become ‘Glinda the Good’…”
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