Barbie‘s historic opening weekend on the field workplace proves we’re all dwelling in Barbieland.
The movie, which opened on Friday, July 21, raked in an estimated $155 million on the home field workplace on opening weekend. That’s far past the Margot Robbie-led film’s projections, which had been between $90 million and $110 million. Barbie practically doubled the opening weekend field workplace of Oppenheimer.
Christopher Nolan’s three-hour drama concerning the atomic bomb introduced in an estimated $80 million. The interval movie, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon, additionally surpassed expectations and was even a part of a double-feature for a lot of. AMC reported final week that greater than 20,000 moviegoers pre-ordered same-day tickets to see each Barbie and Oppenheimer — a phenomenon nicknamed Barbenheimer.
As Barbie raked within the huge bucks, she additionally broke some huge information. The Greta Gerwig-directed movie marks the most important field workplace opening ever for a film directed by a girl. She dethroned Patty Jenkins, who beforehand held the solo crown after Surprise Girl debuted to $103.3 million. In the meantime, Anna Boden held the title for co-directing after 2019’s Captain Marvel, which she helmed with Ryan Fleck, opened to $153 million.
Barbie is formally the most important opening weekend of the yr, knocking The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film out of the highest spot. The Mattel film additionally had an even bigger weekend than all of this yr’s Marvel motion pictures, together with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. (Sony’s Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse is the highest superhero opening of 2023 with $120 million.)
Margot Robbie as Barbie in ‘Barbie.’ Courtesy of Warner Bros. Photos
The film — which follows Barbie into the true world as she struggles to determine who’s taking part in together with her and giving her ideas of existential dread — can be the most important three-day opening for a film primarily based on a toy, surpassing all Transformers motion pictures.
Although they’re no strangers to very large studio movies, Barbie marks the most important opening weekend ever for each Robbie, 33, and Ryan Gosling, who play Barbie and Ken. (Barbie additionally stars America Ferrara, Simu Liu, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Will Ferrell and Kate McKinnon.)
Along with the $155 million on the home field workplace, Barbie is anticipated to drag in one other $182 million internationally. Nonetheless, the film has a methods to go on the field workplace to reside as much as Robbie’s huge guarantees.
“I believe I instructed them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which possibly I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make, OK?” Robbie instructed Collider of convincing Mattel and Warner Bros. to each approve the script and provides her and Gerwig inventive management over the movie. Along with starring because the doll, her firm, Fortunate Chap Leisure, produced the movie and Robbie is an government producer whereas Gerwig directed the movie from a script she penned with husband and artistic associate Noah Baumbach.
“Studios have prospered a lot after they’re courageous sufficient to pair an enormous concept with a visionary director,” the Australian actress continued within the interview, which was performed forward of the SAG-AFTRA strike. “After which I gave a collection of examples like, ‘Dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg‘ – just about naming something that’s been unimaginable and made a ton of cash for the studios through the years. And I used to be like, ‘And now you’ve bought Barbie and Greta Gerwig.”
