Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Wicked: For Good, the second part of a sprawling movie musical adaptation of the 2003 ...

The Yellow Brick Road is paved with changes. With the release of Wicked in 2024, fans were treated to act one of the musical, which—despite its run time being almost twice that of the show’s first act ...

SUNDAY UPDATE: Universal’s Wicked: For Good has swooped in with an estimated $226M global debut, a smidge lower than where we saw it yesterday, but higher than the pre-weekend projection and ...

Director Jon M. Chu made some changes for good. Wicked: For Good adapts Act 2 of the popular musical Wicked. The film is mostly faithful to the stage show, but its ending is slightly different and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. The fantasy movie musical debuted on the big screen on Nov. 21 ...

However, while Wicked: For Good preserves much of the second act of the stage musical, it’s not an exact adaptation. There are numerous differences from the stage to the screen, differences that ...

Wicked has long suffered with its pacing, especially in the second act of the musical. Ending the first half of both the musical and the first movie of Jon M Chu's two-part adaptation on the ...

IT IS HARD to decide the wackiest thing about “Wicked”. Perhaps it is the fact that in Oz, the musical’s magical setting, animals work. (A goat is a historian; an owl a preacher.) Perhaps it is that ...

SUNDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Universal's Wicked: For Good has swooped in with an estimated $226M global debut, a smidge lower than where we saw it yesterday, but higher than the pre-weekend ...