‘Barbie’ Scores a Record $93M in its Second Weekend
Haunted Mansion has started off with lackluster $24.2 million in another Disney summer bummer.
Oppenheimer earned a stellar $46.2 million in sophomore outing.
The female-fueled Barbie, which continues to shatter all expectations, finished Sunday with domestic cume of $351.4 million.
Detractors had predicted it would fade away quickly after a history-making debut over the July 21-23 weekend.
Gerwig’s film fell a scant 43 percent, a rare hold for a picture originally opening to such a big number at $162 million.
It will be only the second movie of 2023 to join the box office billion-dollar club after Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which grossed $92.3 million in its second weekend while topping out at $1.34 billion worldwide.
Barbie enjoyed the biggest first week in Warner Bros. history at the box office, outpacing Nolan’s The Dark Knight.
Nolan’s Universal movie Oppenheimer, the other half of the Barbenheimer effect, is also a box office force that’s holding up incredibly well in its sophomore outing. The three-hour biographical drama grossed an estimated $46.2 million this weekend, a mere 44 percent drop and the biggest second weekend ever for an R-rated pic ahead of Deadpool 2‘s $43.5 million, not adjusted for inflation.
Oppenheimer finish the weekend with estimated global haul of $400.4 million, including $174.6 million domestically and $226.3 million at the foreign box office, to rank as the filmmaker’s sixth-biggest film of all time ahead of Tenet and Batman Begins.
Overseas, it is already Nolan’s biggest film ever in 28 markets and his biggest non-superhero title in 39. The weekend’s overseas tally was another $72.4 million.
Nolan’s movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, is a boon for Imax. Oppenheimer is the second-fastest film to hit $80 million in global Imax ticket sales.
On Sunday, the large-format exhibitor extends the film’s run through the weekend of Aug. 11-13.
In addition to going up against Barbenheimer, Haunted Mansion was greeted with mediocre reviews and the struggling family marketplace. The star-packed cast was also unable to do publicity and press in the final two weeks before the film’s launch because of the actors strike.
Angel Studios’ sleeper hit Sound of Freedom continued to hold third place behind Barbie and Oppenheimer with another $12.4 million for stunning domestic of $149 million.
MI7: More Popular Overseas
Paramount’s Tom Cruise tentpole Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, placed fifth with $10.7 million for a domestic total of $139.2 million.
MI7 continues to hold up better overseas, where it cleared the $300 million mark over the weekend after earning $31.7 million. The picture’s global total through Sunday is $448.5 million.
