Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office
Universal’s Wicked has overtaken the studio’s own Mamma Mia! to become the biggest stage musical adaptation of all time at the worldwide box office.
And looks objectively terrible compared to basically ANY major motion picture released this year (perhaps just short of the great film but terribly-lit “Rob Peace”).
I was flabbergasted that such horrifically flat lighting and incredibly dismal/uninspired camera work didn’t trigger any reshoots (particularly with the $150 million budget they had and, as a consequence, the equipment they had at their disposal.)
Maybe your theater didn't illuminate it correctly? I saw it twice, both IMAX and non-IMAX and it looked incredible both times
I used to be a projectionist.
The projector was fine.
There are articles with the cinematographer about how they deliberately made everything grey.
Anytime I hear anything about this movie I remember the hissy fit the lead actress made over the fan edit of the poster. “How dare they erase my face! Racism!”
*erasism
Bigger than “Grease”?
Grease (1978): $328 million
Wicked (2024): $634.3 million
Unadjusted for inflation, of course.
Adjusting for inflation shows this Wicked claim to be marketing bullshit.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1978?amount=1000000
I enjoyed the movie overall, but casting Jeff Goldblum as the wizard was not a good choice.
The amount of marketing for this movie makes me not want to watch it. Tbh I was never going to watch it in a theatre anyway. Would you guys recommend it to a non Disney fan? I've been watching all major 2024 releases digitally, so I was wondering.
It was fine but not exceptional in my opinion.
As others have mentioned, this movie looked like dogshit.
This is what happens when you give an inexperienced, low-budget DoP a 100 million project because of little more than gender.
Listen to her squirm: https://youtu.be/ZRL8NSOgOj8
We have TONS of examples of "inexperienced, low-budget" male DPs shooting blockbusters. Sometimes they look great, sometimes they look terrible. Women deserve those opportunities too. That's how they become experienced.
interesting case you stumbled upon here 😭 they disappear from comments for ten months then return to exclusively trash on Alice Brooks, stating without evidence that she is a meritless recipient of DEI benefit. all their recent comments (that don’t get banned straight away) have no less than 8 immediate upvotes with their interlocutors often getting mirror downvote treatment—which just screams vote abuse to me*. very unique character here.
*this is speculation and i could be wrong
