Wicked, which was by far the highest grossing film in the world this weekend, failed to give the South Korea box office market a much-needed jolt. The Jon M. Chu-directed fantasy claimed a strong 45% share of the box office in Korea with $3.58 million earned from 501,000 admissions between Friday and Sunday. Over five […]

Production designer Nathan Crowley has been waiting his entire career for a film in which he could build an entire fantasy world. He found that with Wicked. When director Jon M. Chu called on him to work on Wicked for the film adaption of the Broadway musical, Crowleys dream came true. Jon wanted it to […]

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 Rich Asians helmer was […]

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 actors, but also at the […]

Sweet Oz! Wicked fans now have a chance to visit Munchkinland. Well, sort of. When Jon M. Chu was making the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, practical sets were a must. Wickeds grand production shot in 17 stages and on four backlots, two of which were the size of four American football fields. Among […]

Refresh for Latest: Universals Wicked is singing at the global box office, with an estimated $164.2M debut. Thats only slightly off from where it was projected to land through Sunday, as we noted yesterday (see below). The split on the Jon M. Chu-directed first installment of this Broadway musical adaptation is $114M domestic and $50.2M […]

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in Universal's highly anticipated adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical.

Ethan Slater is trying to get used to the attention hes receiving for both his professional and private lives. Hes making his big-screen acting debut as the lovesick Boq in Jon M. Chu’s Wicked opposite Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Baily, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Marissa Bode. Last year, Slater and Grande faced scrutiny […]

As Wicked takes the box office by storm, Ariana Grande and Kristin Chenoweth are reminding audiences who was the original “friend of Dorothy.” While discussing her portrayal of Glinda in the Jon M. Chu-helmed feature adaptation of the Broadway musical, Grande responded to fans who think the Good Witch is queer-coded, as well as those […]

Jon M. Chu counted himself a fan of “Wicked” long before he was hired to direct the big-budget movie adaptation of the popular Broadway musical. So it was a question of where, not if, he should pay homage to Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who originated the stage roles of Elphaba and Glinda, in the […]

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the dynamic duo in Jon M. Chus 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 Holzmans Broadway musical. The pair first met at Erivos house […]

It’s a death-defying act to split one property into two movies. Warner Bros did it with the greatest of ease on the final film adaptation of Harry Potter, 2010 and 2011’s Deathly Hallows, which combined grossed $2.3 billion worldwide. However, Lionsgate ran into a buzz saw and tried it with the final Divergent book, Allegiant, […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Wicked,” now playing in theaters. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth have found their way back to Oz. Broadway’s original witches make a surprise appearance in director Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked,” but not as Elphaba and Glinda. The duo, who originated the leading roles in 2003, sing a new […]

The kept-under-wraps cameos appear during the "One Short Day" sequence in the upcoming film.

Elphaba is green. Its the first thing Glinda says to her in Wicked, the Jon M. Chu-dir...

Jeff Goldblum and Jonathan Bailey join Jon M. Chu in laying out how the filmmaker was able to bring the story of 'Wicked' to life in film.

Cynthia Erivo's impassioned performance is the most real thing in the artificial Oz of Jon M. Chu's CGI-heavy "Wicked"The post ‘Wicked’ is Overstuffed and Undercooked appeared first on Metro Weekly.

Director Jon M. Chu and his myriad collaborators behind and in front of the camera have made movie magic.

Chu says he was blown away when he first saw 'Wicked' musical in San Francisco's Curran Theatre.