Universal Pictures’s Wicked: Part Two is going a few days earlier on Nov. 21, 2025 instead of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov.
26, 2025. The move is similar to what Universal did this year, getting Wicked: Part One off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving which has Disney’s Moana 2.
Wicked: Part One is now going Nov. 22, the same day as Paramount’s Gladiator 2. Exhibition, and the industry’s hope, is that some sort of Barbenheimer box office halo will take place again with both men and women passionately storming to see both films.
That would be quite the movie-date night with men dressed up as gladiators, and women in pink fairy dresses and pointy hat witch get-up.
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