Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread — Page 104

I don't know how to post the picture, but in this article we see the title Wicked Part Two: For Good was considered even before we heard of the change: Cynthia Erivo Filming Update

Jonathan Cohen said: "However, Moana 2 has technically overshadowed Wicked in terms of ticket sales. It's up to$717 million."

I think that actually makes Wicked box office even more impressive since they came out basically a week apart. It's incredible that two films released at the same time both reached such heights.

At the end of the day what films aspire for, aside from a good box office tally, are the awards recognition. In this case, between the awards it’s already won and the insane amount of nominations across the awards platforms, WICKED Part 1 has left MOANA 2 in the dust. WICKED Part 1 will garner numerous Academy Award nominations in various categories whereas MOANA 2 will be relegated to animation and song/music categories.

Why would movies like Wicked and Moana 2 aspire for awards recognition? Perhaps the non-creative number-crunching producers, but with box office figures like these, surely Oscars aren’t needed to garner attention.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Why would movies like Wicked and Moana 2 aspire for awards recognition? Perhaps the non-creative number-crunching producers, but with box office figures like these, surely Oscars aren’t needed to garner attention."

Awards Recognition has nothing to do with box office. They want it because they want to have Oscars. If you can have a box office smash win awards, that is absolutely great for them. As much as producers like money, they're also egoistic...

Ego and personal ambition make sense, I guess. I still doubt that genuine artists make projects purely to win Oscars. Mature people surely know they don’t really matter, and count for very little. It’s all just a fun game and showbiz razzle-dazzle.

P.S. What’s a "basic little person” ?

“At the end of the day… what films aspire for is awards recognition”

That’s all I was really taking issue with. I can’t believe it to be true. Brody subsequently used the word “industry", and I kinda understood.

I love the Oscars, I watch them, I’d happily take one. I just don’t think they are important in any real way. Except in terms of box office, for movies like Coda.

Frances McDormand has three, I’d like to think she agrees with me. Glenda Jackson would be my other role model on the matter.

TheatreFan4 said: "It's some peak childish behavior."

Oh dear. I kind of respected you. But I have basically the same observation I just made: this ridiculous comment says more about you than your target.

Updated On: 12/17/24 at 07:45 PM

TaffyDavenport said: "https://www.instagram.com/p/CtSKjp1Agw_/

The subtitle is mentioned on page 44 of this thread, by me, actually."

Oh, whoops. my bad. Sorry. Thank you for posting the picture!

Guess the film's success has pushed back the release date for the dvd/blu ray which was previously listed as March 30, 2025 but today I get an email from Amazon giving the "New Estimate Delivery Date" as Monday, June 30, 2025.

Unless I just missed it, it appears the Sing-a-Long album dropped today. Listening to it now.

Also read a, not updated, Rolling Stone article this morning that predicts the movie will stream on Peacock. No streaming date given. It was reporting the March DVD release but I think it was from 2 days ago.

BrodyFosse123 said: "No duh. WICKED is a Universal Studios release so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out it’ll be streaming on Peacock which is part of NBC/Universal. That’s why NBC (next day on Peacock) featured WICKED specials and other stuff. "


Time for your sleepy tea, grandma.