A New Thanksgiving Record | The Broadway to Hollywood Musical Pipeline with Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz [Brought to you by One Ultra Screens]

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In this week’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, brought to you by One Ultra Screens, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Chad Kennerk discuss the highest-earning Thanksgiving weekend frame of all time, driven by Disney's Moana 2, Universal's Wicked, and Paramount's Gladiator II. Exhibitors including AMC, Regal, and Cinemark all reported record-breaking holiday weekends. In the feature segment, Daniel speaks to Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, a professor of cinema studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, about the evolution of Broadway adaptations, highlighting the rise and fall of the Hollywood musical and the recent success of Wicked, the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation of all-time.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Highest-Earning Thanksgiving Weekend Overview
01:07 Wicked Becomes Highest-Grossing Broadway Adaptation
01:50 Thanksgiving Movie Experiences: Moana 2 and Gladiator II
03:38 Denzel Washington’s Performance in Gladiator II
06:17 Thanksgiving Box Office Records Analysis
07:15 Moana 2 Breaks Multiple Box Office Records
09:41 International Performance of Moana 2
10:47 Wicked’s Sophomore Frame Performance and Global Numbers
11:47 Gladiator II: Domestic and International Highlights
12:07 Record Attendance for AMC Theaters
13:04 Regal’s Thanksgiving Records and Merchandising Success
14:00 Cinemark Achieves Best Food & Beverage Revenue Day
15:14 Thanksgiving Box Office Recovery Analysis
16:21 Feature Segment with Ernesto Munoz Begins
17:01 History of the Broadway-to-Hollywood Pipeline
22:47 Evolution of the Movie Musical in the 1930s
27:34 MGM’s Role in Shaping Musicals in the 1940s
30:00 Broadway Adaptations and 1950s Hollywood Musicals
32:27 West Side Story as a Turning Point
35:00 Decline of Hollywood Musicals in the Late 1960s
37:50 Cabaret’s Influence in the 1970s
40:00 Rock Musicals: Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar
44:00 Revival of the Musical in the Early 2000s
45:22 Why Wicked Works as a Movie
47:00 Anticipation for Wicked Part Two
50:22 Modern Musical Success Stories and Future Prospects

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