With two of the most anticipated movie cameos of the year, Jon M. Chu had his work cut out for him. The Wicked director recently recounted how he conceived an appearance for the original Broadway musical’s stars Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth during the song ‘One Short Day’, performed with their…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon M. Chu learned to use his power in the right way — just as Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba does in Wicked. Chu says that after 15 years working with studios he knew "how the machine works" because otherwise, he says, it's very easy to get "overwhelmed by the pressures of fans, by the pressure…

Jon M. Chu's Wicked Part One is set to defy gravity when it comes to theaters just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The first part of the musical film adaptation will compete against Ridley Scott's Gladiator II, which arrives in theaters on the same date for a combination much like the summer of 2023's B…

Jon M. Chu is riding high these days. His smash screen adaptation of Wicked already has broken just about every record for a Broadway-to-screen adaptation, and he is about to restart postproduction on Part 2, the now-titled Wicked: For Good, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: "In Wicked, the light is actually the darkness and the darkness is actually the light," says cinematographer Alice Brooks in a new Wicked featurette. "All through movie one, the pink sun rises for Glinda, and the sun is always setting for Elphaba." In the cinematic retelling of the…

EXCLUSIVE: "Unlimited", Cynthia Erivo sings, "My future is unlimited.” The lyrics from The Wizard and I, a number from the musical Wicked, tumble sweetly, melodically – effortlessly – from her mouth. Such a moment could not have happened 10, 15 or even 20 years ago, because, the star reveals: "I was not…

In an awards season that is looking pretty wicked on a number of levels, the Golden Globes pulled back the curtain on some magical contenders this morning.  With nominations announced by Mindy Kaling and a slightly named challenged Morris Chestnut very early Monday, the formerly HFPA-run ceremony…

(Updated with Mattel statement) "Something just takes over me and when it does, bad things happen," says the Cynthia Erivo-portrayed Elphaba in Wicked, and certainly a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed today over a XXX connection could be a very bad thing for Mattel. Wicked is killing it at the box o…

AMC Theatres, the biggest circuit globally, posted the highest domestic revenue in its 104-year history for a pre-Thanksgiving weekend counting admissions, food and beverage, and merchandise. The past three days, with the debuts of Wicked and Gladiator 2, the circuit also saw the highest domestic…

Wicked director Jon M. Chu explained his approach to the sweeping musical’s color grading, after some fans online lamented that the film did not contain the same technicolor prowess present in the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz. In a recent interview with Canadian outlet The Globe and Mail, the Crazy…

With Wicked conquering the Earth, the million-dollar question for filmmaker Jon M. Chu as he reaps the biggest box office opening of his career ($164.2M) is where, oh, where is the Crazy Rich Asians sequel? The Warner Bros. movie broke glass ceilings not only on-screen for Asian and Asian American…

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the dynamic duo in Jon M. Chu's Wicked, truly felt unlimited in their approach to portraying the bond between Elphaba the Wicked Witch and Glinda the Good Witch in Part 1 of the film adaptation of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Broadway musical. The pair first…