Warner Bros. officially has a box office success on its hands. The Burbank studio reported a worldwide earning of $1.031B for the Margot Robbie led Barbie, a progressive film based on the storied Mattel doll of the same name.
Greta Gerwig directs the PG-13 comedy, starring Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Alexandra Shipp, and Sharon Rooney. Barbie caroused onto 4,243 silver screens July 21, earning a whopping $70.5M (includes Thursday previews) its first day out.
The film dipped 32.2% the following day but still collected an impressive $47.8M as it pushed over the $100M box office threshold. Sunday did not fall too far at $43.7M — a great padding to the $162M opening weekend. From Monday (July 24) through Thursday (July 27), the pic’s box office accumulated $96.4M and picked up $93M over the following three-day weekend (July 28-30).
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Barbie showed no signs of slowing down in its second week. Distribution of the film increased by 94 theaters and while the film missed the first week mark by 42%, it still retrieved $55M the week of July 31. As it stands, the third weekend drew in an estimated $53M.
The domestic cume makes up for 44.5% of total box office at $459.4M. Meanwhile, international cume accounts for 55.5% at $572.1M. At the time of this writing, Barbie holds the No. 3 spot in films with the Top Opening Weekends in July, only topped by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (WB) and The Lion King (DIS).
The star-studded pic also holds the No. 2 spot on the list of films with the Top Worldwide Box Office in 2023. Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie secured the coveted No. 1 spot after nabbing $1.4B worldwide since its April 5 theatrical release.
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Other films occupying the top 10 list of films with box office success in 2023 are: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($845M), Fast X ($704.7M), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($683.8M), The Little Mermaid ($564.3M), Oppenheimer ($552.9M), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ($493.8M), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($476M), and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($433.7M).
