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The reign of “Barbie” is over. No less than on the field workplace, anyway.
For the primary time since its July 21 launch, the Greta Gerwig-directed movie wasn’t the nation’s top-grossing movie for the weekend. As an alternative, DC’s superhero movie “Blue Beetle” took its place and grossed an estimated $25.4 million, whereas “Barbie” slipped to second and introduced in $21.5 million, in keeping with studio estimates.
“Oppenheimer,” which was additionally launched the identical weekend as “Barbie,” fell to 3rd place and made $10.6 million, bringing its whole US haul to $285 million.
Thus far, “Barbie” has made $567 million on the US field workplace. The movie ends its place on prime smashing a number of information.
Final week, it turned Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing home launch, beating the previous title holder, the 2008 movie “The Darkish Knight.” It’s additionally nonetheless on monitor to surpass Common Image’s “The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film,” as the largest home launch of the 12 months. That film has made $574.2 million on the US field workplace since its April 5 launch.
Warner Bros. Discovery introduced final week that “Barbie” had additionally crossed the $1.2 billion mark globally, after hitting the $1 billion milestone lower than three weeks in the past — a feat achieved solely by about 50 movies in historical past, adjusted for inflation, Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, beforehand informed CNN. It additionally positioned Gerwig because the highest-grossing lady film director in historical past.
Each “Blue Beetle” and “Barbie” are distributed by CNN’s mother or father firm, Warner Bros. Discovery.
