#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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#China Box Office: ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Opens Soft in Third Place

#China Box Office: ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Opens Soft in Third Place

Tom Cruise failed to do the seemingly impossible in China over the weekend: Revive Hollywood’s former box-office muscle at the world’s second-biggest theatrical movie market.  Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One badly lost its opening weekend in China, debuting in third place behind a pair of holdover Chinese hits.  The Paramount and Skydance sequel opened…

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