Greta Gerwig Makes History As ‘Barbie’ Sets Box Office Record For Biggest Opening Weekend For A Female Director
etcanada.comThe runaway box office success of “Barbie” has set a new record that finds director Greta Gerwig making Hollywood history. As Variety reports, the domestic box office in the film’s opening weekend is projected to hit $155 million, giving “Barbie” the highest-grossing domestic opening of any film directed by a woman. “Barbie” tops the previous record-holder, 2019’s “Captain Marvel”, which was co-directed by Anna Boden, and brought in $153 million in its opening weekend.
Previously, the record was held by Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman”, which boasted a $103 million opening weekend in 2017. READ MORE: ‘Barbie’ A Blockbuster At The Box Office With $337M Worldwide Opening Weekend When the dust settles and the box-office receipts are tallied up from foreign markets, projections indicate that “Barbie” will have raked in a staggering $337 million worldwide during its first weekend of release. “‘Barbie’ has exploded into a zeitgeist film,” David A.
Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, told Variety. “This is genuine excitement, not the manufactured kind.
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