Do you assume they’ll make a commemorative Billionaire Barbie doll? Consider the accent alternatives.
After years of stops and begins, and quite a few scripts and totally different artistic groups, the Barbie film is formally a mega-blockbuster. Over the weekend, the movie crossed $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace. That makes Greta Gerwig the primary feminine director to helm a $1 billion film solo. (Three earlier films that crossed $1 billion had been co-directed by ladies: Frozen and Frozen 2 by Jennifer Lee, and Captain Marcel by Anna Boden.)
Barbie was #1 on the field workplace final weekend for the third straight week. It earned one other $53 million within the U.S., bringing its home complete to $459 million and counting. That makes it the the second-biggest film within the nation for 2023 behind solely The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, which grossed $574 million in theaters again within the spring. Barbie has earned one other $572 million abroad, bringing its worldwide complete to $1.031 billion to this point. That’s additionally the second-highest complete of 2023, as soon as once more behind simply The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film (with $1.352 billion).
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So what’s subsequent? A Barbie sequel appears all however inevitable at this level, though it must wait till the conclusion of the Hollywood strikes earlier than work may even start on a screenplay. Whether or not Gerwig, Margot Robbie, or Ryan Gosling would need to make a sequel stays to be seen.
Whereas a model title as sturdy as Barbie would appear to be a assured hit, Gerwig’s movie was actually not a cookie cutter story about an attractive lady named Barbie, or a doll that magically involves life. As a substitute, she used the iconography of Barbie to make a film that celebrated the dolls’ historical past whereas additionally satirizing a few of its stranger moments (and the conduct of males basically). That was a threat — however clearly it paid off.
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These films debuted in theaters on the identical day, giving cinephiles a troublesome alternative of which to look at first.
