“Wicked,” a movie adaptation of the Broadway prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” was Universal Pictures’ biggest grosser in the quarter.
It earned roughly $700 million at the global box office and helped power a near 7% rise in Comcast’s studio revenue.
Peacock’s revenue rose 27.8% thanks to price hikes made last year ahead of the Olympics.
Comcast plans to unchain its main profit drivers such as studio and theme parks business from the declining cable TV unit by spinning off select NBCUniversal cable networks.