News culture “Lush and subtle” This fantastic film with Ariana Grande enchants the cinemas: Wicked is causing a surprise in 2024
“Wicked,” which opens in U.S. theaters today, is receiving unanimous praise from the press and audiences.
The perfect film for the Christmas season
As the Thanksgiving holiday season begins very soon in the United States, viewers across the country can now kick off the festivities with the theatrical release of “Wicked,” the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, even an adaptation of the novel Wicked: The True Story of the Wicked Witch of the West published in 1996.
And if we can expect real commercial success, the film has already managed to stand out as a critical success. On Rotten Tomatoes in particular, Wicked is unanimous, currently holding a 90% press rating and a 98% audience rating.
On the origins of Oz
“Wicked” has several strings to pull to reach the top of the box office, starting with superstar Ariana Grande sharing the headliner with actress Cynthia Erivo. But Universal also wants to attract audiences by staging the fantastic world of Oz. This universe was first born with a book, The Wizard of Ozwritten by Lyman Frank Baum and published in 1900. But also and especially with the 1939 film adaptation, the world of Oz was democratized. The first adaptation of the prequel “Wicked” took place on Broadway in the early 2000s. Twenty years later, viewers can finally discover the origins of the fantastic world of Oz on the big screen.
