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.Give us your feedback on our podcast by accessing this survey: https://forms.gle/CcuvaXCEpgPLQ6d18 What to Listen For00:00 Intro00:20 Highest-Earning Thanksgiving Weekend Overview01:07 Wicked Becomes Highest-Grossing Broadway Adaptation01:50 Thanksgiving Movie Experiences: Moana 2 and Gladiator II03:38 Denzel Washington’s Performance in Gladiator II06:17 Thanksgiving Box Office Records Analysis07:15 Moana 2 Breaks Multiple Box Office Records09:41 International Performance of Moana 210:47 Wicked’s Sophomore Frame Performance and Global Numbers11:47 Gladiator II: Domestic and International Highlights12:07 Record Attendance for AMC Theaters13:04 Regal’s Thanksgiving Records and Merchandising Success14:00 Cinemark Achieves Best Food & Beverage Revenue Day15:14 Thanksgiving Box Office Recovery Analysis16:21 Feature Segment with Ernesto Munoz Begins17:01 History of the Broadway-to-Hollywood Pipeline22:47 Evolution of the Movie Musical in the 1930s27:34 MGM’s Role in Shaping Musicals in the 1940s30:00 Broadway Adaptations and 1950s Hollywood Musicals32:27 West Side Story as a Turning Point35:00 Decline of Hollywood Musicals in the Late 1960s37:50 Cabaret’s Influence in the 1970s40:00 Rock Musicals: Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar44:00 Revival of the Musical in the Early 2000s45:22 Why Wicked Works as a Movie47:00 Anticipation for Wicked Part Two50:22 Modern Musical Success Stories and Future Prospects