‘Equalizer 3’ Cleans Up, While ‘Barbie’ And ‘Oppenheimer’ Score New Records
etcanada.comThe third instalment in the Denzel Washington-led “Equalizer” franchise topped the domestic box office this weekend with $34.5 million according to studio estimates Sunday.
By the end of the Monday holiday, Sony expects that total will rise to $42 million. Labor Day signals the end of Hollywood’s summer movie season, which will surpass $4 billion in ticket sales for the first time since the pandemic thanks in no small part to “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”, which are still netting records even after seven weeks in theatres.
This weekend, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” officially became the biggest movie of 2023 with over $1.36 billion globally, surpassing “The Super Mario Bros.
Movie”, while Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” sailed past $850 million globally to become the No. 3 movie of the year and Nolan’s third highest grossing. READ MORE: ‘The Equalizer 3’ Trailer: Denzel Washington Returns To Dole Out Justice In Franchise’s Final Film “The Equalizer 3” arrived at a fraught time for Hollywood, with actors seven weeks into a strike for fair contracts with major entertainment companies and movie theatres bracing for a somewhat depleted fall season as a result.
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