#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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#Francis Ford Coppola Calls ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Success a “Victory for Cinema”

#Francis Ford Coppola Calls ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Success a “Victory for Cinema”

Francis Ford Coppola is praising Barbenheimer following the two films’ record-breaking debut weekend. While answering fans’ questions on his Instagram Stories Friday, the filmmaker was asked if he had watched Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer yet. “I have yet to see them, but the fact that people are filling big theaters to see…

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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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#Greta Gerwig on Adding an Author Proust “Easter Egg” in ‘Barbie’, Connection to ‘Oppenheimer’

#Greta Gerwig on Adding an Author Proust “Easter Egg” in ‘Barbie’, Connection to ‘Oppenheimer’

The playful rivalry between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues. Not only has the films’ release dates being on the same day, July 21, started a “Barbieheimer” phenomenon across social media but the two movies, with completely contrasting themes, have some other similarities. During a recent interview with the Associated Press, published online…

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#‘Barbie’ Review: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Doll Comedy From Greta Gerwig That Delivers the Fun but Fudges the Politics

#‘Barbie’ Review: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Doll Comedy From Greta Gerwig That Delivers the Fun but Fudges the Politics

There isn’t exactly a God in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (unless you count Helen Mirren’s omniscient narrator), but the director does experiment with creation myths. Barbieland, a parallel universe populated by iterations of the Mattel doll, is her sandbox. The toy conglomerate’s vast archive, a trove of successful products, middling ideas and discontinued merch, are the…

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