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This week “Wicked: For Good” will be joined in theaters by Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” which prerelease polling indicates will also be a blockbuster.

“In terms of large blockbusters, it’s been a minute since there’s been a female-skewing movie on the scale of ‘Wicked’ or ‘Lilo & Stitch.’

At this point, university economics departments had mostly been spared of the scandals that have hit other fields, including materials science, where a blockbuster finding on room-temperature superconductivity was invalidated in 2023.

This is not to say that “Wicked” was some noble emblem of blockbuster benevolence.

“Wicked” has proved to be a key boost to Universal’s lineup of blockbuster franchises.