Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer': unstoppable at the box office with another historic weekend

by Thomas Hoffmann July 31, 2023, 5:05 pm

What Barbie y Oppenheimerthe phenomenon Barbenheimerwere going to take the box office by storm had been known for months. A satirical film about the Mattel doll starring Margot Robbie and a new Christopher Nolan film about the father of the atomic bomb were attractive enough on their own. The joint release could only make them better. What no one predicted was that those expectations would fall so far short of reality. And the fact is that, a week after their arrival in theaters, both films continue to sweep the box office.

The new U.S. box office data have reflected a second weekend for the history. The drops with respect to the premiere have been very low compared to what usually happens after seven days in theaters. Thus, Barbie has racked up another $96 million in the U.S., down just 42.3% from the previous weekend. This is a collection that has made it break a new record.

The film directed by Greta Gerwig has achieved the seventh best second weekend in history. In addition, the six films it has above it belong to franchises such as. Marvel, Star Wars o Jurassic World. Thus, never before had an original story managed to gross so much after one week in theaters. Another milestone that perfectly sums up the passage of Barbie on the big screen. In such a short time the film has surpassed $750 million, is already the third best movie of 2023 and continues to fatten the pockets of Warner Bros. at a dizzying pace.

In the case of Oppenheimerits numbers have also been very remarkable in its second weekend. The film has grossed another $46.6 million in the US. An amount that means that it has only decreased by 44% compared to last weekend. In total, Nolan’s film has broken the $400 million mark worldwide, which puts it just seven days ahead of the final gross of the director’s other projects, such as Tenet (365 million) and Batman Begins (373 million).

According to Universal, Oppenheimer is the first R-rated film to gross more than $10 million for seven consecutive days. “It’s two of the best second weekends in box office history“said analyst Paul Dergarabedian in Variety about the great maintenance of Barbie y Oppenheimer in theaters.

With Barbenheimer completely dominating the box office, few films have been able to make a noticeable dent in theaters over the past weekend. One of the most striking releases was that of Haunted Mansion. The reboot Disney’s reboot cost $150 million, to which must be added many dozens more in marketing and promotional expenses. However, because of Barbie y Oppenheimer was only able to open with an insufficient $33.7 million. worldwide, 24.6 million of which was earned in the United States.

With these figures, everything seems to point to the fact that. Haunted Mansion will be a flop. And yet it still managed to take third place at the U.S. box office, behind only Gerwig and Nolan’s two titans. In fourth place is the controversial Sound of Freedomwhich totaled $13.6 million to surpass $150 million in total. A box-office total that surpasses such powerful releases as Fast and Furious 10, Elementary o Mission Impossible: Deadly Sentence – Part 1.

Precisely Tom Cruise’s film is the fifth-place film of the weekend in the United States. The film achieves another $10.7 million, bringing it to $139 million in its home market. Fortunately, for Cruise, internationally, the seventh installment of Mission Impossible it has worked betterreaching a total of 448 million dollars. In any case, these figures are very far from Barbie y Oppenheimer. It seems that they have not yet peaked.