Blue Beetle” took down “Barbie” at this past weekend’s box office. The film came in the first spot with a $25.4 million opening, earning an additional $18 million internationally. The film is led by 22 year old Xolo Maridueña, playing Jaime Reyes.
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Barbie is on track to hit a major milestone at the box office – surpassing $1 billion in global ticket sales. Will it be one of the fasted to pull off the feat?
Deadline predicted that Barbie is expected to cross the billion dollar mark by Sunday (August 6) or the following day at the latest. With its July 21 release date, that would mean that it took 17 or 18 days to cross the milestone.
We were curious how that run compared to previous blockbusters that managed to gross $1 billion and did some digging. Impressively, one film managed to hit the landmark revenue in less than a week.
Barbie will be one of the 10 fastest releases to hit the peak if it continues hitting projections. It will also be one of only two movies that are not part of a franchise to pull it off.
We pulled together the current top 10 fastest movies to gross $1 billion for you to see and will update once the numbers are in on Barbie.
Scroll through the 10 fastest movies to hit $1 billion at the global box office…
Blue Beetle” took down “Barbie” at this past weekend’s box office. The film came in the first spot with a $25.4 million opening, earning an additional $18 million internationally. The film is led by 22 year old Xolo Maridueña, playing Jaime Reyes.
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Editor’s note: Dade Hayes and Jonathan Bing are co-authors of Open Wide: How Hollywood Box-Office Became a National Obsession. Hayes is Deadline’s Business Editor and Bing is Chief Communications Officer at Vice Media Group.
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After another weekend at the top of the box office, rumours are emerging that a “Barbie” sequel is in the works.
There’s no denying that “Barbie” has been the big-screen blockbuster of the summer, and the Greta Gerwig-directed comedy is maintaining the top position at the box office in its fourth week of release.
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according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.This week, it surpassed the $500 million mark, making its director Greta Gerwig the highest earning female director ever at the domestic box office, beating the record held by “Frozen II‘s” Jennifer Lee.The movie is so popular that searches for the baby name “Barbie” have increased by a staggering 603% since April, when its trailer was released.“Oppenheimer,” which was in fourth place last week, moved back up to the No. 2 spot with $5.1 million in sales.This week, the Christopher Nolan filmbecame the highest grossing ever at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre in the location’s 97-year history, according to Deadline.
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Barbie is the latest movie to pull off a very impressive feat – netting $1 billion at the global box office – and it is one of the fasted movies to hit the goal.
Greta Gerwig is making history! Three weeks after its debut in theaters, Barbie has surpassed $1 billion at the box office, making Gerwig the first female director to hit this box office milestone as a solo director.In a statement, Warner Bros. said the fantasy-comedy movie has taken in $459 million from domestic theaters — counting the United States and Canada — and another $572.1 million overseas since it hit theaters, for a total of $1.0315 billion.
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This Barbie is a billionaire! Greta Gerwig‘s doll comedy starring Margot Robbie has officially earned over $1 billion at the box office.
“Barbie” continues to burn up the box office, and on Sunday the film made history by surpassing $1 billion at the global box office.
“Barbie” continues to burn up the box office, with the latest projections indicating the film’s global ticket sales will surpass $1 billion by the end of this weekend.
according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The Greta Gerwig-directed flick, which opened on July 21, made more than $200 million at the domestic box office in its first five days in theaters, according to Forbes. The film The Post called “lousy” beat out “Oppenheimer,” which debuted on the same day, for the second week in a row.
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.
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