According to studio estimates on Sunday, Wicked: For Good earned $150 million from North American theaters in its first days in theaters and $226 million globally. Not only is it the biggest opening ever for a Broadway musical adaptation, unseating the record set by the first film's $112 million launch, it's also the second biggest debut of the year behind A Minecraft Movie's $162 million.
CBS, home to venerable institutions like "60 Minutes" and "Face the Nation," is a legacy, mainstream broadcast journalism outlet. Weiss, meanwhile, built her career as a contrarian columnist at The New York Times before stepping away in a highly publicized resignation over what she described as ideological groupthink. She soon launched The Free Press, an outlet that rails against the establishment with commentary that skews conservative. The idea that she might soon run one of America's most traditional broadcast news operations seemed unfathomable.