Like “Oppenheimer,” premium screens boosted “Gladiator II.” IMAX provided $9.4 million of its domestic total; “Wicked” saw less than half of that. By comparison, “Barbie” had fewer premium screens and no IMAX imprint.

Based on a Broadway prequel to "The Wizard of Oz", the movie pulled in $114 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, plus $50.2 million in international markets, for an estimated global total of $164.2 million.

Wicked” and “Gladiator II” have debuted in theaters with a combined $270 million in ticket sales. Their worldwide performance breathed fresh life into global box office results that have struggled lately.