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Ever since the first note was belted on stage in 2003 in the musical Wicked, it's a story that has sung out for the big-screen treatment. Why it took two decades is a mystery.

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Bored to Death ran from 2009 to 2011. Credit: HBO Humphrey Bogart wasn't a tall man but he embodied a kind of tough-guy masculinity.

If it seems like your social feed is being clogged with everyone's emotional and excited responses to Wicked, it's because the movie adaptation was the number one ticket this weekend.