Release year

2026

Release date

November 4, 2025

Franchise

N/A

Genres

ActionAnimationFantasyMusicalWar

Runtime

137 minutes

Distributors

Universal Pictures

MPAA rating

N/A

Directors

Jon M. Chu

Screenwriters

Winnie HolzmanDana Fox

Writers

N/A

Producers

Marc PlattDavid Stone

Studios

Universal Pictures

Production companies

Universal PicturesMarc Platt Productions

Cinematography

Alice Brooks

Edited by

Myron Kerstein

Music by

John PowellStephen Schwartz

Based on

Wickedby Stephen SchwartzWinnie Holzman Wickedby Gregory Maguire

Budget

$150M

Estimated Profit

$44M

Est Profit Inflation Adj

SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Wicked: For Good

Name: Wicked: For Good
Released: November 4, 2025 (2025-11-04) November 21, 2025 (2025-11-21) (United States)

2026 · Jon M. Chu · Marc Platt | David Stone · 137 minutes

Wicked: For Good is a 2025 musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz before and during the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new respective identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

Action Animation Fantasy Musical War

Cast Salaries

Cast	Year	Salary	Inflation adjusted salary	Notes
Ariana Grande	2026	$15,000,000Wicked movie star Ariana Grande reportedly earned around $15 million for her role.source	N/A	(rep)
Cynthia Erivo	2026	$15,000,000Universal had to correct it. so her salary was probably around $15 million just like Ariana.source	N/A	(rep)
Cynthia Erivo Jonathan Bailey	2026	$7,500,000	N/A	(est)
Ethan Slater Bowen Yang	2026	$4,500,000	N/A	(est)
Jeff Goldblum	2026	$2,000,000He reportedly earned a $2 million paycheck.source	N/A	(rep)
Michelle Yeoh Jeff Goldblum	2026	$3,000,000	N/A	(est)

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

Category	Year	Reported	Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross.	2026	$342,915,090	N/A
International International theatrical box office gross.	2026	$197,892,881	N/A
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross.	2026	$540,807,971	N/A

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

Category	Year	Reported	Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$250,614,697 (est)	N/A (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$16,692,068	N/A
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$19,218,563	N/A
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$171,458	N/A
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $1,546,158, BluRay $2,135,171	2026	$3,681,329	N/A
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$57,152,629 (est)	N/A (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2026	$347,530,744	N/A
Expenses
Budget Production budget. sourceSource: Wikipedia infoboxURL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked%3A_For_Good$150 million	2026	$150,000,000	N/A
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A estimated from peer comps using release year, budget, genre, and theatrical performance. sourceSource: ScreenProfits comp P&A estimateEstimated from 12 peer comps using budget + domestic + worldwide. Peers: A Minecraft Movie \| The Odyssey \| Moana 2 \| Wicked \| Captain America: Brave New World	2026	$126,088,918 (est)	N/A (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$4,916,720 (est)	N/A (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$4,274,628 (est)	N/A (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2026	$18,000,000 (est)	N/A (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2026	$303,280,266	N/A
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.	2026	$44,250,478	$0

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