‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Both Smashed Their Box Office Openings
This weekend both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” opened in theaters. They both did very well. According to Variety, the two movies made this weekend the fourth-biggest box office weekend in histor
Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy “Barbie” was the number-one choice for moviegoers. The movie smashed all expectations earning $155 million. Making it the biggest debut of the year. Lots of people also went to the theater to see Christopher Nolan’s R-rated “Oppenheimer.” It made $80.5 million this weekend.
Thousands of individuals who decided to see one movie this weekend couldn’t go without also seeing the other. Meaning many people ended up actually viewing the two movies on the same day, making this box office battle more of a double feature.
David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research says “This is an unequivocally great weekend for moviegoing. ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are complementing each other at the box office, not taking the audience away from each other.”
This current craze is being called “Barbrnheimer” by many and has fueled the biggest collective weekend at the box office in the pandemic era. It has also created the fourth-biggest box office weekend in history. The top three currently are all led by debuts of sequels to massive frenchises (“Avengers: Endgame,” “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”).
In the end, it wasn’t even a competition between the two movies as “Barbie,” thanks to an immaculate marketing campaign, loomed large over box office charts. The international box office added $182 million to the film for a stunning global end to the weekend of $337 million.
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