Wicked For Good

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‘Wicked: For Good’

Universal’s Wicked: For Good is marching into 745 sites this weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, the second widest UK-Ireland new release of 2025, so far.

It comes just behind fellow Universal title Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, which opened in September at 759 sites.

Jon M. Chu’s UK-shot musical is the fourth widest release for a Universal film in the territory, nestled between Downton Abbey (732 sites) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (748 sites), and is the sixth widest release of all time in the UK-Ireland. It is ahead of the 701 sites the first film opened in last year, which took £13.7m in its first weekend. Advance tickets to Universal Pictures’ Wicked: For Good in the UK and Ireland have sold at more than double the rate of 2024’s Wicked, according to UK exhibitors.

The follow-up to 2024 box office hit – which grossed $757m worldwide – resolves the feud between friends Glinda, played by Ariana Grande, and Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum also return for the follow-up.

The film has already played at 676 sites, as part of Wicked and Wicked: For Good double bills screening yesterday (November 20).

Sony’s Sisu: Road To Revenge is opening to 276 sites. Jalmari Helander directs the sequel about a grieving Finnish soldier.

In event cinema, Trafalgar Releasing has Arabella - Met Opera 2025 at around 240 sites across the weekend, playing ‘as live’ on Saturday (November 22).

Bakrania Media’s Indian Hindi-language war film 120 Bahadur is out at 29 sites. Razneesh Ghai directs.

Miracle’s feature documentary about the women trying to hold the Irish government accountable for abuses in the Magdalene Laundries, Testimony directed by Aoife Kelleher, opens at 13 sites.

BFI Distribution is releasing Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Berlianle competition drama The Ice Tower, starring Marion Cotillard, in 12 locations.

Verve Pictures is releasing John Minton’s Game at four sites. An aging raver in the early 1990s finds himself in a fight for survival after crashing his car in the woods.

The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo, a documentary that challenges the authorship of one of the most famous images taken of the Vietnam War, is being given an awards-qualifying release by Netflix. 

Also out this weekend is The Thing With Feathers and Cbeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella for Vue Lumiere; The Carpenter’s Son for Altitude; Zee Studios’ Mastiii 4; and The Session Man - The Nicky Hopkins Story for Music Film Network.

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