‘Barbie’ Surfs Past $400M Global Box Office Through Monday, ‘Oppenheimer’ Tops $200M
25.07.2023 - 23:07
/ deadline.com
After a blowout debut weekend, Barbenheimer showed strong continued momentum at the international box office on Monday. Warner Bros’ Barbie for its part had the best Monday ever for the studio overseas at $32M from 69 markets (it also scored the studio’s best Monday domestically). The running offshore total through yesterday is $226.3M, bringing the global Kenergy to $414.4M.
As for Universal’s Oppenheimer, the Christopher Nolan epic biographical thriller added $16.2M on Monday in 78 markets for a $114.2M overseas cume to date. The worldwide gross is $209.3M through Monday.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie saw just a 37% drop on Monday offshore versus Sunday while the $32M on Monday was 16% of the massive weekend launch.
In Europe, the Sunday-to-Monday drop was 26%. What’s more, the Monday results repped the best 1st Monday for a WB film ever in 19 markets in the region, including the UK (excluding Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which opened on a Monday there), Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Latvia, Finland, Cyprus, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Slovenia, Serbia and Ukraine.
In Latin America, the Margot Robbie/Ryan Gosling-starrer performed better on Monday than all the top titles of 2023 in terms of the Monday-to-weekend ratio, roughly three points above the average.
Also notable, China had a strong Sunday-to-Monday hold of -33% to reach $11M. The gross there through Tuesday (not included in the totals above) is $13.7M. In France, Monday admissions exceeded those of last week’s Thursday and Friday. And, in Spain, Monday was 25% of the weekend, significantly above such titles as Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Super Mario Bros Movie and Avatar: The Way of Water.
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