Barbie smashes Warner Bros field workplace report surpassing The Dark Knight

Barbie has had an astounding field workplace opening, the most important of 2023 up to now, with $362 million taken over the weekend.

This is an unbelievable feat on condition that the Margot Robbie film was going up towards Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which has taken over $180 million up to now.

For comparability, The Super Mario Bros Movie remodeled $377 million in its international opening weekend and has gone on to turn out to be the highest-grossing movie of the yr up to now with over $1.3 billion made.

Given this, it’s not unreasonable to consider that Barbie may nicely turn out to be a member of the $1 billion field workplace membership.

In the meantime, Barbie has damaged a Warner Bros report that has surpassed Batman epic The Dark Knight.

According to Variety, Barbie made $26 million yesterday, which is the most effective Monday in Warner Bros historical past.

The report was beforehand held by Nolan’s The Dark Knight which made $24.6 million (not adjusted for inflation) on a Monday again in 2008.

Barbie has additionally joined the Top 15 Mondays of all time that didn’t fall on a vacation weekend.

Barbie has now remodeled $400 million worldwide after the most important debut for a movie director by a girl, Greta Gerwig.

She overtakes Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s 2019 MCU blockbuster Captain Marvel on $153 million.

Barbie is out now in cinemas.