An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link "Wicked" has broken its third box office record, beating "Mamma Mia!" to become the highest-grossing film adaptation of a Broadway musical.
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But it still has a way to go to surpass the highest-grossing musical films of all time, which have made over $1 billion in ticket sales. In its opening weekend in November, "Wicked" made $164 ...
according to Box Office Mojo — not enough to make their list of 1,000 top-grossing films. But that 1965 adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical is one of the biggest hits in film history.