Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in Common’s “Depraved: For Good.”
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Common’s “Depraved: For Good” defied gravity on the field workplace, snaring an estimated $150 million from home ticket gross sales.
It marks the second-highest opening weekend for a movie launched in 2025, simply behind Warner Bros.’ “A Minecraft Film,” which tallied $163 million again in April. It additionally outpaces the debut of final yr’s “Depraved,” which tallied $112.5 million within the U.S. and Canada.
The movie’s haul units the document for the most important opening weekend of a Broadway adaptation. With extra ticket gross sales from worldwide markets, “Depraved: For Good” is about to achieve a $226 million international haul for its first three days in theaters.
“Group Common did a unbelievable job of following completely on the success of the unique movie a yr in the past and have parlayed that into a fair greater debut for this second installment,” stated Paul Degarabedian, head of market developments at Comscore. “‘Depraved: For Good’ will stay up for extremely robust playability all through Thanksgiving week and past through the all-important vacation movie-going season.”
Final yr, the mixture of “Depraved,” Paramount’s “Gladiator II” and Disney’s “Moana 2” helped increase the Thanksgiving vacation field workplace to its highest haul ever. This yr, “Depraved: For Good” is joined by Disney’s “Zootopia 2.”
The primary “Zootopia” opened in 2016 to $75 million domestically however went on to gross greater than $1 billion worldwide. Pent-up viewers demand may push the movie’s three-day opening to round $100 million and the five-day Thanksgiving interval to north of $125 million.
“The spectacular anticipated over-performance by ‘Depraved: For Good,’ together with the opposite movies within the market, may give final yr’s document Thanksgiving actually a run for its cash,” Dergarabedian stated. “That is nice information after all of the unfavourable tales concerning the difficult October field workplace drove the narrative.”
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