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 12 months’s “Depraved,” which tallied $112.5 million within the U.S. and Canada.
The movie’s haul units the file 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 improbable job of following completely on the success of the unique movie a 12 months in the past and have parlayed that into an excellent greater debut for this second installment,” mentioned Paul Degarabedian, head of market traits at Comscore. “‘Depraved: For Good’ will stay up for extremely sturdy playability all through Thanksgiving week and past through the all-important vacation movie-going season.”
Final 12 months, 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 12 months, “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 might 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, might give final 12 months’s file Thanksgiving actually a run for its cash,” Dergarabedian mentioned. “That is nice information after all of the detrimental tales concerning the difficult October field workplace drove the narrative.”
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