'Barbie' rolls on, entering all-time top 20 U.S. movie grosses
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Barbie (NASDAQ:WBD) and Oppenheimer (NASDAQ:CMCSA) returned to the top two spots in movie ticket sales, showing that the two "Barbenheimer" hits have continued to dominate the summer in their fourth weekend in release.
Barbie (WBD) logged its fourth straight top finish, drawing $33.7M for a drop-off of just 36% from last week, Comscore reported. Oppenheimer (CMCSA) grossed $18.8M domestically, a similarly strong hold just 35% off of last week's gross.
Add on another weekend $45.1M overseas for Barbie, and another $31.9M internationally for Oppenheimer, and the films have piled up impressive 2023 totals.
In Barbie's case, its $526.3M domestic total puts it No. 2 for 2023 less than $50M behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie (CMCSA), a film it seems likely to surpass with a few more weeks playing in enough theaters -- and it entered the all-time top 20 in domestic grosses. Barbie's worldwide pile of $1.184B is second in 2023 to Mario's $1.356B.
The cumulative total also makes Barbie Warner Bros. (WBD) No. 2 grosser of all time.
As for Oppenheimer (CMCSA), it's hit $264.3M domestically, according to Comscore, making it the seventh-biggest film of 2023 (Avatar: The Way of Water, a December 2022 release, has grossed $283.1M in calendar 2023, while The Little Mermaid reached $297.2M). And on a worldwide basis, the dramatic biography has hit $649M.
A few holdovers from last week tackled the crumbs. Third-best was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (NASDAQ:PARA) (PARAA), which grossed $15.8M for a two-week total of $72.8M, just ahead of Meg 2: The Trench (WBD), where $12.7M gave it a two-week total of $54.1M.
The weekend's best debut came from The Last Voyage of the Demeter (CMCSA), a Dracula-based vampire story that pulled a lackluster $6.5M in more than 2,700 theaters but still topped a third week of Haunted Mansion (DIS), with $5.6M.
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