#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Dances to 5M Globally, Days Away from Joining Billion-Dollar Club

#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Dances to $775M Globally, Days Away from Joining Billion-Dollar Club

Barbie couldn’t be dancing any faster. The Greta Gerwig-directed movie, from Warner Bros., earned a spectacular $131.5 million at the global box office in its second weekend, including an estimated $93 million domestically and $122.2 million from 70 markets overseas. That puts Barbie‘s domestic total at $351.4 million. It has earned an equally-as-surprising $423.1 million…

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#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering 5M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes M

#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering $155M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes $77M

The summer box office just went nuclear. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s female-fueled Barbie started off with a stupendous $70.5 million on Friday, including $22.3 million in previews. If early modeling is correct, the Warner Bros. movie is headed for a historic $155 million-plus opening domestically, a threshold usually reserved for male-driven superhero fare or marquee IP…

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#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering 5M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes M

#China Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Opens in Fifth Place on Friday as ‘Oppenheimer’ Awaits Release Date

The Barbenheimer’s box-office dominion does not extend to China, it seems.  Greta Gerwig’s Barbie released in China Friday to considerable fanfare, but its pink appeal is proving no match for a slew of local Chinese blockbusters. The Warner Bros. comedy-fantasy is on track to finish its opening day in China in fifth place, having earned only…

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