The box office languished this fall after a record-breaking summer, though the trifecta of “Wicked,” “Gladiator II” and “Moana 2” are expected to be big hits this month.

Wicked is positioned to not only become a box office hit, but possibly also one of the biggest movies of the year.

With stars like Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo as well as a global fanbase, Wicked has the potential to be a box-office hit.

Gladiator II” entered the international box office arena with $87 million from 63 markets, a powerful start for the quarter-century-in-the-making sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 best picture winner “Gladiator.

Two-thousand-twenty-four is turning into the Year of the Flop. Expensive comic book movies, starry comedies, Christmas fare, Westerns and auteur-driven sci-fi epics all spectacularly imploded. Major titles played to a couple of dudes who snuck in at 11 a.