With a $155 million opening weekend, "Barbie" leads the box office.

With a $155 million opening weekend, "Barbie" leads the box office.


The Barbie movie was the talk of the internet and if you have not watched it well, you are missing out my friend. It is not just being pink, fun and remenisce your childhood, it is more to it.

You will end up crying after the movie for sure. With Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" surpassing forecasts with $155 million, "Barbenheimer" has developed into a full-fledged movie office phenomenon. "Oppenheimer" by Christopher Nolan also made $80.5 million in its first weekend.

Many ticket purchasers decided to see both movies on the same day, converting the box office competition into a double feature. The fourth-largest cinema office weekend in history and the biggest box office weekend overall of the epidemic era were both propelled by the cultural hysteria. The releases of sequels to well-known series took the top three weekends of all time.

Due to an unavoidable marketing effort and high-quality production, "Barbie" loomed huge over the box office rankings. The movie brought in an additional $182 million abroad, bringing its impressive global total to $337 million.

With a "A" CinemaScore and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, "Barbie" has a successful opening weekend. The movie, which was directed by a woman, had the largest opening weekend ever for a movie. With $103 million in 2017, "Wonder Woman" holds the record for a film that was only directed by a woman.

In addition to Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, the movie also stars Issa Rae, Dua Lipa, Simu Liu, Michael Cera, Helen Mirren, John Cena, and Will Ferrell as Barbie and Ken. The $100 million film "Oppenheimer," which is supported by Universal, is the first time Nolan hasn't collaborated with Warner Bros. Cillian Murphy plays the man in charge at Los Alamos in the biopic, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "American Prometheus."

While "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" and "Sound of Freedom" battle for supremacy, "Barbenheimer" rules multiplexes. "Oppenheimer," the follow-up to Cruise, brought in $118.7 million in North America and $370 million worldwide. The addition of $18.8 million made "Sound of Freedom" the 14th-highest grossing domestic movie of the year.

The fifth-placed film was "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" by Disney, which made $335 million globally and $159 million domestically. The $300 million price tag, however, leaves Indiana Jones in the hole.