The fabled “Glicked” weekend has finally arrived—or “Wickediator” or “Gladiacked,” depending on who you ask. Last year, “Barbenheimer” effectively merged two blockbusters, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer,

Wicked” and “Gladiator II” didn’t outperform “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” but that doesn’t mean it was a bad weekend at the box office.

The sequel to the Oscar-winning hit 2000 film, “Gladiator II” brings back the original director Ridley Scott, along with stars Connie Nielsen, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington.

The ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator 2’ double-bill may not have lived up to 2023’s Barbenheimer hype, but it still managed to breathe life back into a struggling box office

This weekend saw Gladiator 2 and Wicked release for audiences nationwide, bringing with it large box office totals. Although Gladiator released internationally on Nov. 15, both movies released on the same day — Nov.

With a combined $270 million in worldwide ticket sales, “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” breathed fresh life into a box office that has struggled lately,

Hollywood’s two holiday movie blockbusters, Wicked and Gladiator II, brought in nearly $170 million in domestic box office sales for their opening weekends, according to estimates from Comscore. Wicked,

The highly anticipated “Wickediator” weekend is finally upon us, as Part One of Jon M. Chu’s Broadway adaptation premiered on the 2024 movie calendar on the same day as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. The witchy Wicked took top billing — and broke some records in the process — as it handily defeated the Roman Empire with its $114 million three-day opening.

Both Wicked and Gladiator 2 have been huge successes both critically and commercially, but one project is clearly outshining the other.