Barbie and Oppenheimer Make Movie Historical past with Big Field Workplace Haul

The field workplace battle between Barbie and Oppenheimer led to a record-setting opening weekend that ranks as one of many largest collective hauls in movie historical past.

The “Barbenheimer” double function phenomenon swept throughout the US as Greta Gerwig’s Mattel toy-inspired Barbie earned the title of 2023’s greatest debut but with $155 million, whereas Christopher Nolan’s World Struggle II interval piece Oppenheimer raked in a formidable $80.5 million. As movie critic Jonathan Boehle points out, it marks the primary time in field workplace historical past that two films every opened to over $80 million.

Globally, the movies netted $337 million and $174 million, respectively. All advised, Barbie and Oppenheimer resulted within the fourth highest-grossing field workplace weekend of all-time.

The Gerwig-helmed Barbie additionally marks the highest-earning debut for a feminine director, a distinction beforehand held by 2019’s Captain Marvel.

There appears to be no signal of the “Barbenheimer” hype dying down both, as each movies earned “A” rankings from CinemaScore. Elsewhere, Barbie presently holds an 80 on Metacritic together with Oppenheimer’s “must-see” 89 Metascore.

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