'Barbie' joins $1 billion club, breaks record for pic helmed by female director. In modern box office history, just 53 movies have made over $1 billion, not accounting for inflation, and “Barbie” is the biggest to have beendirected by one woman, supplanting “Wonder Woman's” $821.8 million global total.
"Barbie" has taken the box office by storm, earning more than $1.38 billion worldwide to become the highest grossing film in Warner Bros. ' 100-year history; the highest grossing film ever from a female filmmaker at the domestic box office; and is the largest worldwide film release of 2023.
Barbie has now set a new record as it's become the highest-grossing movie at the US box office by a female director, solo or otherwise. The previous record was held by Frozen 2 co-director Jennifer Lee, with the Disney film having banked a domestic box office gross of $477.4 million.
'Barbie' Becomes Biggest Warner Bros. Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office, Beating 'The Dark Knight' Greta Gerwig's movie, based on the world's most iconic fashion doll, keeps dancing past one record after another.
‘Barbie’ hits $1 billion at box office, breaking record
Did Barbie surpass Harry Potter?
Barbie surpasses Harry Potter's Warner Bros box office earnings record. Barbie has achieved a milestone in the century-long history of Warner Bros, becoming its highest-grossing film by earning more than $1.34 billion (£1.06 billion) at the global box office.
With a domestic total of $594.8 million in ticket sales, “Barbie” has passed “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($574 million) to become the year's biggest domestic hit. With $1.34 billion worldwide, “Barbie” will also soon surpass the leading $1.35 million worldwide tally of “Mario.”
Around 300,000 Barbie dolls were sold in 1959, her first year on the market, per Mattel. Carol Spencer, a doll designer for Barbie from 1963 to 1998, explains the craze. “The children, when they saw the doll in the stores, went wild for her,” Spencer says. “And it continued for years and years and years."
Their long-term marketing investment had built up a $700 million brand valuation before the movie released, and this brand has an emotional engagement that translates really well to a film. Many girls play with Barbies every day, telling stories and imagining themselves as Barbie.
While surpassing the record, Barbie has gone on to gross $1.342 billion thus far over the previously held $1.315 billion held by Deathly Hallows. Barbie is also only one of the few movies in Warner Bros. ' Top 25 earners list that is not part of a series/media franchise, alongside Inception, Twister, and Gravity.
In the first six months of 2023, the Barbie brand made $459.6 million in global gross billings, a 23% decline from the same period in 2022. Gross billings represent amounts invoiced to customers and don't include the impact of sales adjustments, such as trade discounts.
Topline. Barbie was pulled from theaters in Algeria this week, joining a growing list of countries that, despite the summer blockbuster's widespread success, have banned the film because of its themes of gender and sexuality or because of the film's alleged use of a controversial map.
Remarkably, “Barbie” has achieved another milestone by surpassing “Avengers: Endgame” to become the top-selling movie of all time at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Kenneth Sean "Ken" Carson is a fashion doll introduced by American toy company Mattel in 1961 as the counterpart of Barbie, who was introduced two years earlier.
A pregnant Midge and her husband, Allan, and their child. “Pregnant Barbie” is actually Margaret Hadley Sherwood, or Midge, as her friends call her. Midge was created to be a less glam, more relatable Barbie, per Buzzfeed News. The doll was launched in 1963 as Barbie's bestie.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Barbie was named after Ruth Handler's daughter, Barbara, and Ken after her son, Kenneth. She is from (fictional) Willows, Wisconsin, where she attended high school.
As a lot of people told the mother that it's not necessarily unsuitable for younger children but would probably be uninteresting to them. But, as it is PG-13 you can still bring children to see the Barbie movie as long as they have a parent with them.
Like the 12A rating, this means that children under the age of 13 can see it — but they don't necessarily need to be accompanied by an adult like with the 12A.
The first Barbie wore a black and white striped swimsuit and her signature ponytail. Toy buyers were skeptical because Barbie was unlike the baby and toddler dolls that were popular at the time. They doubted she would be successful, but Barbie took the world by storm.
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses is a 2006 computer-animated dance film. It first premiered on Nickelodeon on September 10, 2006, and it was later released to DVD on September 19. The film was directed by Greg Richardson and loosely based on the German fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses".
“Barbie Girl” topped the charts worldwide in 1997. In the UK, it was No. 1 for four weeks and remains one of the best-selling singles of all time. Aqua's smash hit single, “Barbie Girl”, has hit one billion views on YouTube.
