THB #625: Wicked... & Gladiator II... & The Box Office

kill me.

Stop calling it “Glicked.” You’re embarrassing yourself.

Firstly, the idea that this weekend was duplicative of Barbenheimer is a reach. Remember… Wicked was dated for next weekend and moved earlier so it could compete with Gladiator II and not Moana II… which still makes sense after having competed with GII for ticket sales. I have not seen a single report of anyone buying tickets to watch Wicked and Gladiator II back-to-back, as people did in the first 3 weeks of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Nor have I seen a single report of anyone dressing up to go see Gladiator II. Someday, there may be another magical fluke like BarbieHeimer… a phenomenon that was not designed by the studios. But this ain’t it. And “Glocked” is the laziest, least interesting possible version of trying to make this form of “fetch” a thing. Gladicked (pronounced Glad Dicked) is the most obscene. Wickiator II: Oz Be Back is probably the most logical.

But the whole thing is silly. Both movies ended up doing grea…