Wicked: For Good’ ends the story of the Wicked Witch Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda the Good (Ariana Grande), closing on a mysterious page of the Grimmerie.

The stage musical of “Wicked” opens with a time jump from Elphaba’s rebellious moment in “Defying Gravity.” The first scene of Act II is “Thank Goodness,” sung by Glinda as she seeks to spread joy and raise spirits as the rest of Oz wages war against Elphaba, now dubbed the Wicked Witch of the West.

The movie is expected to take in about $151.5 million from Friday through Sunday, earning 35 percent more than the first installment last year.

For Good." Jon M. Chu isn't shy about it - the second half of his two-film adaptation is the one where he tears down walls. Literally. One of the film's most talked-about sequences - the split-door staging of "For Good" - wasn't scripted and almost didn't exist.

Wicked: For Good has officially arrived — and fans and critics have a lot to say about the musical sequel. Director Jon M. Chu’s For Good picks up five years after the events of the 2024 blockbuster Wicked,

Wicked’ composer Stephen Schwartz opened up to PEOPLE in an exclusive interview about Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo doing a reworked version of 'For Good' with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. The group performed the song during NBC’s 'One Wonderful Night' special earlier this month.

"Wicked: For Good," the second act of "Wicked," takes Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo to new heights. With director Jon M. Chu and Jeff Goldblum.

The concluding chapter raises the stakes and leans hard into another scorchingly hot political topic: immigration.

Universal Pictures Wicked changed Us for good, and the second half is sure to do the same. The first of the two-part Wicked movie adaptation, released in November 2024, brought the beloved Broadway show to life on the big screen.

Jonathan Bailey made a NSFW joke about how he looked while wearing a significant amount of prosthetics for his spoiler-heavy transformation in Wicked: For Good. PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive said in a new interview that the prosthetics work was "the first thing I started thinking about" when he signed on to the movie.