That’s the best Monday ever for November, better than Frozen II ($12.7M, Nov. 25, 2019), better than The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($12.3M, Nov. 25, 2013), higher than Skyfall ($11.3M, Nov. 12, 2012) and bigger than post-Covid’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($11.1M, Nov. 14, 2022). Wicked shoots up to $128.1M through four days.

Universal's Thanksgiving pic opened to an estimated $114 million over the Nov. 22-24 weekend, more than three times the previous domestic record-holder, 'Into the Woods.'

Battling a 27 percent decline in domestic ticket sales compared with before the pandemic, studios left no marketing drum unthumped in releasing the movies.