Sphere’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Box Office: Here’s How Much It’s Made So Far

The Wizard of Oz astatine Sphere successful Las Vegas has sold much than 500,000 tickets since launching connected Aug. 28, generating implicit $65 cardinal successful summons sales, according to an announcement from Madison Square Garden connected Monday (Sept. 15). Notably, 280,000 of those tickets were sold aft the film’s Aug. 28 premiere (tickets archetypal went connected merchantability to the nationalist connected June 10).

Sphere executives person agelong hoped that the AI-enhanced mentation of The Wizard of Oz would beryllium a deed for the iconic Las Vegas venue, which outgo $2.3 cardinal to build. The AI-assisted remake of the 1939 classical movie is portion of the Sphere Experience — 1 constituent of a four-pronged concern exemplary for the venue, which besides hosts concerts and sporting events, books backstage firm parties and sells advertizing connected the venue’s exoskeleton.

Sphere’s occurrence is inexorably linked to its quality to publication artists for residencies, which person truthful acold included bands similar Eagles and Dead & Company. However, original non-live programming like Postcards From Earth — an original, hour-long movie directed by Darren Aronofsky — and V-U2, a performance movie filmed implicit 3 nights of U2‘s Sphere residency, is besides an important portion of the calculus.

The Wizard of Oz represents the adjacent section successful archetypal programming for the Sphere and could beryllium pivotal arsenic portion of CEO James Dolan‘s efforts to grow to different markets (a caller Sphere successful Abu Dhabi was announced successful October 2024). Dolan said The Wizard of Oz cost up to $100 cardinal to produce.

Last month, Backstreet Boys added 14 caller dates to the group’s residency astatine Sphere, which runs done February 2026. The Eagles also precocious announced 4 dates at the venue successful January 2026. Concert promoter Insomniac and the Tomorrowland festival’s UNITY concerts, which volition diagnostic aggregate artists, are slated for a nine-date tally done Oct. 18, portion Zac Brown Band kicks disconnected a six-date residency successful December and Mexican prima Carín León is slated to play 3 dates successful September 2026.