Barbie Makes History With Biggest Opening Weekend for a Female Director
glamour.comBarbie and Oppenheimer would make on their combined opening weekend. As of Sunday, we have the answer: enough to buy a lot of Dreamhouses (and/or kitchen-free homes in Los Alomos).
The actual numbers are nothing short of staggering. Though final tallies won’t be available til Monday, it seems that has raked in about $155 million domestically and another $182 million internationally, .
Christopher Nolan’s has earned about $80.5 million domestically and $93.7 million internationally—a pretty stunning take for a three-hour drama about men in hats discussing theoretical physics.
That means together, the phenomenon known as Barbenheimer has made about $511 million worldwide, $235.5 million of which was earned domestically—enough to make this the fourth-highest-grossing weekend in American history, and the only one of those four weekends not driven by a Disney-released sequel. (The openings of Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens occupy the no.
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