‘Barbie’ Hits $1 Billion at the Box Office

This Barbie is a billionaire! Greta Gerwig‘s doll comedy starring Margot Robbie has formally earned over $1 billion on the field workplace.

Barbie pulled in an estimated $53 million domestically in its third weekend, bringing the movie’s worldwide field workplace to $1.03 billion, Sunday estimates point out. Gerwig, 40, is the one solo feminine director to affix the billion-dollar director membership with a reside motion film. (Captain Marvel‘s Anna Boden, who co-directed with Ryan Fleck, is the one different girl to helm any of the 53 motion pictures to surpass $1 billion).

The film stars Robbie, 33, as a Barbie who begins experiencing unusual ideas about demise and flat ft. She determines that the one solution to fight her existential dread is to depart Barbieland to seek out whoever is taking part in along with her in the true world.

Robbie’s LuckyChap Leisure produced the Mattel movie, and the star has made it clear that she made huge guarantees concerning the field workplace to the WB earlier than touchdown the movie.

“I believe my pitch within the green-light assembly was the studios have prospered a lot once they’re courageous sufficient to pair an enormous thought with a visionary director,” she recalled in a pre-SAG-AFTRA strike interview with Collider in July. “After which I gave a sequence of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that – 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 acquired Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’”

She concluded, “I believe I advised them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which possibly I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make.”

Barbie might be among the many highest-grossing motion pictures of the 12 months. It’s solely second to The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, which hit theaters in April and pulled in $1.35 billion on the worldwide field workplace.

Gerwig initially wasn’t set to direct Barbie, which additionally stars Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera and Will Ferrell. Gerwig and accomplice Noah Baumbach co-wrote the script and the Little Ladies filmmaker realized she needed to be the one helming the movie.

“I used to be initially meant to only write it with Noah, after which we completed the script and that was the factor that made me wish to direct it. It felt so clear to me: In the event that they didn’t wish to make that [version], I didn’t must make it,” Gerwig advised the New York Instances final month.

She continued, “Margot, because the producer and star, was actually the primary individual to line up and say, ‘I wish to do it her approach.’ After which as we began including collaborators and gathering extra solid, all of the sudden there was numerous individuals who had been excited to do one thing that was this, excuse the pun, out of the field.”

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Whereas Barbie has surpassed expectations, so has her opening day competitor Oppenheimer. Whereas the second half of the Barbenheimer phenomenon hasn’t fairly joined the billion-dollar membership, director Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb drama surpassed $550 million on the worldwide field workplace.