#box-office-record

#box-office-record

If you had told me before I went to see Wicked: For Good that Elphaba and Glinda's "For Good" duet was not the most heart-breaking moment of the film, I would have assumed you: a) actually don't understand the story b) have the empathy skills of a slice of raw potato c) hate women or d) all of the above. But no, it's not. The so-called door scene takes that award, and I don't think I will ever recover from it.

But are American moviegoers prepared to embrace heroes who don't remind them of K-pop idols or characters from Marvel and DC comic books? Ne Zha 2's mythological world might feel especially foreign, considering that it is a sequel to a movie that a lot of people in this country haven't seen. (The first film in this fantasy franchise was released in select theaters in the States in 2019, where it grossed $3.7 million - only about 0.5 percent of its worldwide box-office sales.)