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Following a sluggish year at the box office, “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” opened this weekend with combined earnings of $270 million internationally, providing the box office with much-needed rejuvenation as the busiest moviegoing weekend of the year, per Box Office Mojo.

The double-feature formula that propelled last year’s ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ was put to the test again with a mashup between Broadway and ancient Rome. Last year, Warner Bros.’s Barbie and Universal’s Oppenheimer revitalized the box office with their same-day openings,

"Wicked" earned an estimated $114 million in North American movie theaters its opening week, and $164.2 million globally, making it the No. 1 film at the U.S. box office and the highest-earning Broadway-to-screen adaptation debut yet.