Ariana Grande is Glinda in ‘Depraved For Good’, directed by Jon M. Chu.
Preview:
- ‘Depraved: For Good’ has launched efficiently on the field workplace.
- It made $150 million in North America.
- The movie additionally had the fourth most profitable international begin for a film in 2025.
The indicators and portents have been already wholesome round ‘Depraved: For Good,’ however the precise launch of the second film tailored from the hit Broadway musical (and supply novel) actually confirmed some magic, and is now essentially the most profitable movie tailored from a stage present.
Director Jon M. Chu’s second movie, which adopted final 12 months’s ‘Depraved’ has begun its field workplace run because the second most profitable film debut this 12 months, with $150 million in North America. That wasn’t sufficient to topple ‘A Minecraft Film,’ which was nonetheless the most effective launch with $162 million this previous April.
Launch Date: Nov 21, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 17 min
Price range: $150,000,000
Nonetheless, assuming ‘For Good’ has legs (and the “A” grade CinemaScore from audiences suggests it would), this could simply be one of many greatest hits of the 12 months).
And it’s a fine addition for the field workplace usually, which has been languishing of late.
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How did ‘Depraved: For Good’ do elsewhere?
(L to R) Ariana Grande is Glinda and Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba in ‘Depraved For Good’, directed by Jon M. Chu.
With a further $76 million from abroad markets and greater than $226 million globally, ‘For Good’ was the fourth-biggest launch this 12 months, behind the likes of the live-action ‘Lilo & Sew,’‘Jurassic World Rebirth’, and, in fact, ‘A Minecraft Film.’
Nonetheless, Common shall be pleased with the end result, and is way forward of the place ‘Depraved’ was upon its personal opening final 12 months ($164.2 million).
Right here’s Franchise Leisure Analysis’s David A. Gross on the film’s success:
“It is a sensational opening. The one limitation, comparatively talking, is the collection’ abroad efficiency. ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is a traditional American story, with a pure home skew.”
What else occurred on the field workplace this weekend?
(L to R) Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in ‘Rental Household’. Picture by James Lisle/Searchlight Footage. © 2025 Searchlight Footage. All Rights Reserved.
There was much less to be ok with for different new releases.
‘Rental Household,’ which stars Brendan Fraser as a lonely, struggling actor who lands the not-so-plum job of enjoying stand-in roles for strangers in Japan, opened in fifth with $3.3 million. But it did no less than get pleasure from robust opinions and optimistic phrase of mouth, which could assist it stick round.
Motion thriller ‘Sisu: Street to Revenge’ landed at sixth place with $2.6 million, behind already smooth estimates of $3 million. That’s lower than 2023’s prior instalment, ‘Sisu’, which opened to $3.3 million.
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’, the third instalment of the magician heist motion pictures, slipped to second place on $9.1 million, a 56% drop from its debut. ‘Predator: Badlands’ was pushed to 3rd, incomes $6.5 million in its third weekend, whereas ‘The Working Man’ lagged behind in fourth place and $6.1 million.
Glen Powell stars in Paramount Footage’ ‘The Working Man’.