The Barbie film, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie within the title function and Ryan Gosling as Ken, continues to interrupt information in Hollywood since its pinktastic July 21 launch — as a result of what cannot Barbie do? Let’s take a look at them…
Barbie is the first movie directed by a solo lady to succeed in $1 billion at field workplace.
Over the weekend, the movie passed $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide. That meant Gerwig, who additionally co-wrote the mission with accomplice Noah Baumbach, grew to become the primary solo feminine director to hitch that group.
Information from field workplace tracker The Numbers exhibits there are about 50 movies which have reached $1 billion. Of these, three had been co-directed by girls: Frozen and Frozen II (Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck) and Captain Marvel (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck). Patty Jenkins, who directed 2017’s Surprise Lady, got here shut with $823 million worldwide.
It had the most important opening day of 2023.
Barbie shared a gap weekend with Oppenheimer, resulting in the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon on social media, however it dominated on the field workplace from the bounce and continues to take action. On its opening day, it brought in $70.5 million, making it the most important opening day this yr, beating out Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse’s $51.8 million.
It had the most important opening weekend in 2023.
The movie made $162 million on the field workplace, the most important opening weekend of the yr. The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film beforehand held the title, when it opened to $146 million over three days in April (and $204 million over the fill five-day Easter weekend).
It had the most important opening weekend for a movie directed by a girl.
With its $162 million, it put it forward of Captain Marvel ($153 million) in 2019 and Surprise Lady ($103 million).
It had the most important Monday for a Warner Bros. movie.
A movie’s momentum after opening weekend can also be tracked as a result of it exhibits whether or not filmgoers proceed to have curiosity. The Monday after Barbie got here out, it took in $26.1 million domestically. That broke a file beforehand held by 2008’s The Darkish Knight.
It had the most important opening week for a Warner Bros. movie.
Barbie grossed $350 million in North America in 10 days — reaching that faster than any other release in the studio’s 100-year history.
It reached $1 billion quicker than every other Warner Bros. movie.
Jeff Goldstein, Warner’s president of home distribution, instructed the New York Times that it reached that milestone Sunday after being in theaters for 17 days. Beforehand Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 2 was quickest to $1 billion — in 19 days.
Whereas it isn’t an authentic movie, it is also not a direct follow-up to, or remake of, any prior film. That file was held by The Secret Life Of Pets ($104.4M) in 2016.
It had the most important opening for a movie primarily based on a toy.
The file was beforehand held by Transformers: Darkish of the Moon with $115.9M.
It had the greatest opening for a film with out IMAX.
Gerwig instructed Collider that she wished the film to be proven in Dolby Imaginative and prescient with an Atmos combine, explaining, “I noticed shapes within the clouds within the background that I’d by no means seen earlier than. It simply was outrageously stunning and each a part of Barbie Land was that rather more wealthy and vibrant after which the identical was true of the true world. For me, it simply turned every part emotionally as much as a ten. On this world, the place there’s plenty of totally different codecs of how folks take a look at issues, it’s simply kind of breathtaking to see this format is the closest factor I can assume to of what was in in my thoughts for Barbie Land and the true world.”
Barbie had the most important opening for a Greta Gerwig-directed movie.
With its $162 million, it was far greater than Little Girls ($108.1M) and Woman Fowl ($49M).
It additionally one of the best opening for a Margot Robbie or Ryan Gosling movie.
It surpassed her Suicide Squad ($133.7M) and his Blade Runner 2049 ($32.8M), respectively.
It had one of the best ticket presales.
The gross sales earlier than the movie had come out are one of the best the trade has seen since Avatar: The Method of Water, based on Deadline.
And these large milestones might proceed as moviegoers proceed to flock to theaters — wearing pink, in fact — to step into Barbie’s world. Nevertheless it’s not all fluff — it has themes of feminine empowerment and pokes enjoyable at patriarchy.
In the meantime, Gerwig, Robbie and Gosling surprisingly didn’t have provisions of their contracts for sequels, based on the Hollywood Reporter. So the movie’s franchise future is unclear, however loads in Hollywood is unclear for the time being with the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes occurring concurrently, bringing Hollywood productions to a halt.