Along with the premiere of Oppenheimer, they rounded off the fourth highest-grossing weekend in the country’s history.
With a gross of 155 million dollars, Barbie became the highest-grossing release of the year in the United States and, along with oppenheimerwhich grossed $80.5 million in its debut, rounded out the fourth-highest-grossing weekend in history.
According to the slogan of the specialized site of Hollywood Variety, the film inspired by the popular doll also had a great response from the public internationally with 182 million collections, so that globally it reached the spectacular figure of 337 million.
All this also positioned the film of Greta Gerwig as the biggest opening in the history of a film directed by a woman, a scepter that until now held Anna Boden with Captain Marvelwhich he co-directed with Ryan Fleck.
For its part, the story of the creator of the atomic bomb led by Christopher Nolan He scored 93.7 internationally, bringing his global tally to 174 million.
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The numbers reached by both productions made the weekend the highest grossing since the pandemic and the fourth highest in history, only behind the debuts of Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Forces Awakens.
sound of freedom took third place on the weekend with a refund of 20.1 million, followed by Mission: Impossible – Death Sequence – Part 1with 19.5 million, according to data from Box Office Mojo.
Close the top five of the weekend in the United States Indiana Jones and the dial of fatewith 6.7 million, which, although it accumulates 159 million since its premiere locally and 335 worldwide, has not yet managed to meet the expectations of a production that consumed 300 million.
Source: Ambito
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