So it was no real surprise that both films utterly smashed the Box Office: Barbie has so far made a whopping $1.4 billion worldwide, while Oppenheimer has made $912 million.
“Barbie” is the highest grossing film of the summer (and the year) with $612 million in North America and $1.36 billion globally to date. “Oppenheimer” also wildly outperformed expectations with $311 at the domestic box office and $850 million worldwide.
As of May 16, 2024, Christopher Nolan's period drama “Oppenheimer” garnered around 330 million U.S. dollars domestically. Its global box office revenue amounted to more than the double with a total of 974 million U.S. dollars.
As of Macrh 5, 2024, Greta Gerwig's very pink fantasy-comedy "Barbie" (2023) has collected more than 636 million U.S. dollars at the North American box office, garnering a total of 1.45 billion U.S. dollars worldwide. It has instantly become the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman.
“Barbie” may have won the box office battle, but “Oppenheimer” won the awards. The Golden Globes Awards cemented Christopher Nolan's historical drama as the Oscar frontrunner and made other contenders re-group and re-think their campaign strategies.
Another clue came at the Golden Globes. Barbie failed to win best comedy or musical but walked away with the cheesy, newly-invented award for cinematic box office achievement, a consolation prize for being popular and making money. The film's relationship to money and corporate culture was problematic from the start.
2021 marked the highest gross sales value since 2013, with Barbie brand gross sales hitting $1.7 billion worldwide. According to our Statista Market Insights, dolls and stuffed toys generated an estimated $55.7 billion worldwide in 2023.
Barbie is the biggest toy movie since Transformers, and it's following what is becoming a well trodden path of taking beloved IP and transforming it into a fully fledged entertainment franchise. And for Mattel, the company who owns Barbie and hundreds of other well known toy brands, it's just the beginning.
It might not get the credit for passing a billion at the box office, but in precipitating nearly $50m in extra revenue through re-releases, it has a claim to be the third, and final, billion-dollar film of 2023.
"Oppenheimer" won seven Oscars Sunday night, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It also won for Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography. Ludwig Göransson also took home the Oscar for Best Original Score.
Maybe there's something to be gleaned from the double feature mania: More than 200,000 people purchased tickets to see Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. But this particular phenomenon may not be replicable. Here's what we learned this weekend.
You have to remember that the biggest cinema going audience is between 18–30 bought up on Spider-Man with the attention span of a gnat. On a more practical point - Oppenheimer is 3 hours long meaning fewer screenings are possible.
Following a span of five weeks since its debut, the R-rated historical drama has achieved a remarkable feat, amassing an impressive $718 million at the worldwide box office. The earning includes a substantial $285 million from North American audiences and an impressive $437 million from international markets.
Gone with the Wind—first released in 1939—is generally considered to be the most successful film, with Guinness World Records in 2014 estimating its adjusted global gross at $3.4 billion.
The third and fourth Avengers films (Infinity War and Endgame) stand as the most expensive back-to-back film production, with combined production costs of over $1 billion, according to one of the directors. Ben-Hur (1925) was the most expensive film of the silent era, possibly holding the record for over twenty years.
On Sunday, August 6, Greta Gergwig's Barbie officially surpassed $1 billion at the global box office. That's a whole lotta dream houses. Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, previously became the biggest blockbuster of the summer on Wednesday, when it surpassed Chris Pratt's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
Barbie, formally known as “Barbara Millicent Roberts,” was born in 1959, which would technically make her 65 years old — except for the small fact that she was born as a 19-year-old. Yep, that's right: The first ever Barbie was officially 19 years old, which would make her age closer to 84 years old.
At the time of her death, Ruth's net worth was $100 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. It's unclear what happened to her fortune after she died. Now that you know Ruth's whole back story, you might want to go watch Barbie one more time.
Sindy and Barbie went head-to-head in August 1999, when both manufacturers created large advertising campaigns for the dolls and Sindy was relaunched. The manufacturers updated the dolls' images and revamped them with a "millennium look".
A film that polarizes audiences can have trouble building consensus on the film's merit. If the movie does not have uniform appeal, the director may struggle to accumulate the widespread support necessary to secure an Oscar nomination. Barbie was released after 2018, so was not included in the ratings study.
