‘Barbie’ Crosses $1 Billion at Global Box Office
You’ve heard of Stereotypical Barbie…how about Billionaire Barbie?
On Sunday, Warner Bros. announced that Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has passed $1 billion at the global box office, becoming the eighth film in studio history to cross that mark.
“Barbie” is certainly the most colorful member of Warner’s billion-dollar club, joining “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “The Dark Knight,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Aquaman” and “Joker” on the $1 billion list.
This also makes Greta Gerwig the first solo female director to cross the $1 billion mark.
“Barbie” passed the mark on its third weekend as it grossed $53 million domestic and $74 million overseas. The running totals stand at $459 million domestic and $572 million overseas.
Gerwig’s film is also on pace to pass “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” to become the highest grossing film of 2023, as “Mario” stands at $574 million domestic and $1.35 billion worldwide.
If it does, it will stand as the fourth highest grossing film of the post-COVID shutdown era, standing only behind “Avatar: The Way of Water” ($2.3 billion), “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($1.91 billion) and “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.45 billion).
“Barbie” has become a global cultural sensation thanks to strong critical and audience reception as well as the unique phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer,” as moviegoers joked and celebrated the simultaneous release of the light-hearted “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s chilling drama “Oppenheimer,” which tells the story of the development of the atomic bomb through the eyes of its lead developer, J. Robert Oppenheimer.
While “Barbie” has received the bigger box office bump from that double feature craze, “Oppenheimer” has also had a strong box office run, passing $550 million in global grosses this weekend and becoming the year’s highest grossing R-rated film.
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