Wicked
2024 film by Jon M. Chu
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| April 5 2025 | Myron Kerstein demonstrates his creative editing choices for the 'Defying Gravity' scene in person at the NAB Show, participating in a conversation panel with Alice Brooks. |
| April 2 2025 | Official trailer for Wicked debuted at CinemaCon, introduced on stage by Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jon M. Chu, and Marc Platt. |
| March 2025 | First poster for the film released at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of Universal's 2025 theatrical slate presentation. |
| 2025 | First Norwegian production of the Wicked musical announced, scheduled to premiere following the film's release. |
| March 21 2025 | The film began streaming on Peacock. |
| March 21 2025 | Film began streaming on Peacock |
| March 21 2025 | Film scheduled for release on Peacock streaming platform |
| March 17 2025 | Wicked debuts on Peacock streaming platform, topping Nielsen's preliminary streaming chart for the period of March 17-23, 2025 with 882 million minutes watched. |
| March 2025 | Time Out ranks the film at number 38 on its list of the '40 best movie musicals of all time'. |
| March 11 2025 | Nominated for 'Next Big Thing' award at The Queerties ceremony, with result pending at the time of record. |
| February 2025 | The New York Times reports that Universal Destinations & Experiences is in early development of potential theme park attractions based on the 'Wicked' film, with possible additions to the Universal Epic Universe park. |
| February 2025 | The Washington Post ranks Wicked at number 10 on its list of 'The 25 best musical films of the 21st Century'. |
| February 2025 | Director Jon Chu announced that the first official trailer will premiere in spring or early summer of 2025, after declining a Super Bowl LIX slot due to visual effects technical challenges. |
| February 4 2025 | Film released on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-Ray, and DVD by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, featuring theatrical and sing-along versions with bonus content |
| January 2025 | Surpassed Dune: Part Two to become the fifth highest-grossing film of 2024 and became Universal's third highest-grossing film of all time in North America and nineteenth highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. |
| January 2025 | Greg Wells announced the process of recording live instrumentals for the Wicked film soundtrack, with recording planned for May or June 2025 at AIR Studios. |
| January 2025 | Greg Wells' home studio was destroyed in the Palisades Fire, temporarily halting music production for the film. |
| January 1 2025 | Wicked float featured in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, celebrating the film's VOD release. |
| 2024 | Wicked tops VOD charts on iTunes Movies, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and Amazon Prime Video in its first week of release. |
| 2024 | Received ten nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. |
| 2024 | Won Best Film at the National Board of Review. |
| 2024 | Named one of the best films of 2024 by the American Film Institute. |
| 2024 | Maria Lucia Rosenberg, who originally played Elphaba in the 2011 Danish production, returned to dub Menzel's role in the Danish version of the film. |
| 2024 | Two days before the film's release, Norway announced its first-ever stage production of Wicked, scheduled to premiere in 2025. |
| 2024 | In countries without previous musical productions, voice actresses from Disney's Frozen (who had previously voiced Elsa) were enlisted to dub Idina Menzel's role, including performers in Flemish, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Swedish. |
| 2024 | Willemijn Verkaik dubbed Idina Menzel's role in the Dutch and German film versions, continuing her long history of playing Elphaba in international productions. |
| 2024 | Film adaptation of Wicked released with localized dubbing in multiple countries, featuring many original stage musical performers reprising their roles in different language versions. |
| December 2024 | Collider ranks the film at number 6 on its list of '10 Best Fantasy Movies of the 2020s' and number 3 on the '12 Best Movie Musicals of the Last 25 Years'. |
| December 2024 | Collider ranks 'Wicked' at number 6 on its list of '10 Best Fantasy Movies of the 2020s', highlighting the film's spectacular translation of the Broadway show to the big screen. |
| December 2024 |
Director Jon M. Chu disclosed that the Wicked film will have a darker tone and will give Dorothy Gale a more prominent role compared to the musical's second act.
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Jon M. Chu Says We Will See Dorothy in WICKED: FOR GOOD as It Does Intersect with THE WIZARD OF OZ — GeekTyrant
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| December 31 2024 | Earns more than $26 million in premium VOD sales on New Year's Eve, contributing to total first-week VOD earnings of over $70 million in the United States and Canada. |
| December 31 2024 | Wicked film released on video on demand in the United States |
| December 29 2024 | Surpassed Mamma Mia! (2008), breaking the Guinness World Record to become the highest-grossing musical film adaptation of all time. |
| December 28 2024 | Wicked: For Good won the Digital Spy Reader Awards for Most Anticipated Movie of 2025. |
| December 26 2024 | Announcement of the film's participation in the 2025 Rose Parade on January 1, 2025, with a 55-foot-long 'Defying Gravity' float. |
| December 25 2024 | Sing-along version of the film released theatrically. |
| December 25 2024 | Theatrical release of a sing-along version of the film. |
| December 25 2024 | Grossed $392.4 million domestically, becoming the 49th highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada. |
| December 25 2024 | Third originally planned release date for the Wicked film adaptation. |
| December 23 2024 | Avid releases a 14-minute video breakdown by Myron Kerstein analyzing the editing of the 'Defying Gravity' scene using the film's Media Composer timeline. |
| December 16 2024 | Official film title 'Wicked: For Good' was unveiled, borrowing its subtitle from the penultimate musical number of the original show. |
| December 15 2024 | Grossed $525 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film based on Baum's Oz works, surpassing Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). |
| November 2024 | Wicked debuted with a record-breaking opening for a film based on a Broadway musical, topping both US/Canada and worldwide box offices, surpassing previous musical film adaptation opening records. |
| November 2024 | On Thanksgiving Day, the film made the second-best box office total ever, just behind Moana 2. |
| November 2024 | Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman discuss potential future projects to expand the Wicked film universe, explicitly avoiding labeling potential future films as 'Part Three' or 'Part Four'. |
| November 2024 | Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman discuss potential expansion of the Wicked film universe, indicating plans for future projects beyond the existing narrative but not directly calling it a third or fourth part. |
| November 2024 | Post-production resumed after being paused most of 2024 to allow Chu to complete post-production on the first film. |
| November 27 2024 | Fourth originally planned release date for the Wicked film adaptation. |
| November 23 2024 | Polish premiere as the closing night film of the 32nd International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage, with cinematographer Alice Brooks and production designer Nathan Crowley in attendance. |
| November 22 2024 | Theatrical release of Wicked in the United States. |
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