Showing January 29th 2026 at 4:00pm the film Wicked: for good. Based on the award wining OZ novel series and Wonderful Wizard
of Oz by author L. Frank Baum. Wicked: For Good (also known as Wicked: Part Two[c]) is a 2025 American musical and fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande,[b]Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum return from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz before and during the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
Universal Pictures and Marc Platt, who both produced the stage musical, announced the film adaptation in 2012. After a long development and multiple delays, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chu was hired to direct, with Erivo and Grande cast in 2021. The adaptation was split into two parts to avoid omitting plot points and further develop the characters. Principal photography on both films began in December 2022 in England, was interrupted in July 2023 by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and resumed and concluded in January 2024.
Wicked: For Good premiered at the Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo on November 4, 2025, and was released in the United States on November 21. It has grossed $519 million on a $150 million budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing Oz film and musical film adaptation.[10] Both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute listed it among the top-ten films of 2025, and it received five nominations at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards and seven at the 31st Critics’ Choice Awards (including Best Picture).