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Broadway.com reports:

Wicked: Part One, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will arrive in theaters five days earlier than planned. The highly anticipated first part of a two-part movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, will now be released on November 22.

With its new release date, the movie avoids opening against Disney’s Moana 2. Instead, Wicked: Part One will face off against Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II—starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal—with movie fans already looking forward to a Barbenheimer-style double-feature and cultural event. (Wickediator?)

Wicked: Part One was initially slated for release on December 25; it switched to a Thanksgiving release date, ostensibly to avoid opening against Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, which features songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

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Predictions from the movie industry show that 2024 will have a new ‘Barbenheimer’, after the release of the adaptation of ‘Wicked’ was moved to November 22, the same day as ‘Gladiator II’.

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