{"id":151260,"date":"2025-11-25T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/151260\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:58:11","slug":"for-good-soars-hbo-preps-for-busy-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/151260\/","title":{"rendered":"For Good’ Soars; HBO Preps for Busy 202"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn today\u2019s episode of \u201cDaily Variety<\/a>\u201d podcast, Variety\u2019s Rebecca Rubin unpacks Universal Pictures\u2019 risky decision to break \u201cWicked\u201d <\/a>in two parts, and how it paid off with a record haul. And Jennifer Maas gives us an update on the mood at HBO <\/a>as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery slides into sale mode yet again.<\/p>\n

\n\tRubin explains that with a $150 million opening, \u201cWicked: For Good<\/a>\u201d was by definition a four-quadrant hit. \u201cWhen you get to these numbers \u2014 $150 million domestically and over $200 million globally \u2014 it is resonating mostly everywhere. But what stood out to me was the two parts of it all. A few years ago when Universal announced that they were going to split wicked into two parts, a lot of people, myself included, were very skeptical about what that decision would look like, because it\u2019s already risky to split a movie into two. And musicals are a very polarizing genre,\u201d Rubin says. \u201cAnd so it was a huge gamble on Universal\u2019s part to not just need one big-budget musical to succeed, but two to succeed a year apart. It\u2019s very encouraging now to see that at least financially speaking it feels like that decision has paid off because they have another huge opening on their hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMore to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s episode of \u201cDaily Variety\u201d podcast, Variety\u2019s Rebecca Rubin unpacks Universal Pictures\u2019 risky decision to break \u201cWicked\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5230,146,4302,85,46,411,69536],"class_list":["post-151260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-daily-variety","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv","tag-wicked-for-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}