‚Barbie‘ movie, starring Margot Robbie, delivers the blockbuster expected from summer films.
Barbie, a comedy about the famous fashion doll, brought out movie fans in droves this weekend, delivering the kind of blockbuster that theaters and Hollywood studios used to routinely expect from their summer films.
The Warner Bros. release was the top picture in US and Canadian cinemas, taking in $155 million in ticket sales, the studio said in statement Sunday. That also gave it the highest-grossing debut of the year, edging past the $146.4 million haul from April’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
The film made its debut the same weekend as Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan’s biography of the inventor of the atomic bomb, which brought in $80.5 million, according to Universal Pictures.
A estimated 200,000-plus moviegoers bought tickets to see both new releases on the same day at chains such as AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Cineworld Group Plc’s Regal, a phenomenon dubbed “Barbenheimer.”
The simultaneous releases energized theatergoers and likely added to one of the best weekends for cinema in years.
