The past weekend has a clear winner: the cinemas! Because one successful “double start” hasn’t existed for over 40 years. In 1980, Superman 2 and All Hell Breaks Down the Highway made similar waves. After a series of disappointments, flops and meager weekends with supposed blockbusters like Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Flash or Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Destiny, the magical border of 1 million visitors not only cracked, but also clearly surpassed. The tough dry spell of the last few weeks seems finally to be over.
A brilliant duo dominates the cinema charts
It doesn’t happen very often that two films make the box office ring like that on their opening weekend. The mere fact that the major film studios “avoid each other” with promising theatrical releases, or do not want to create internal competition, ensures that usually only ONE new blockbuster attracts the masses to the cinemas.
In the case of “Barbenheimer” it’s different. Meant are the Barbie film adaptation and the biopic of Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb (here is our film review). Both films started last week on the same day, the approach of the two screen hits is too different. And the numbers prove: Barbie and Oppenheimer can coexist wonderfully in the cinema.
No chance for Tom Cruise: Barbenheimer dominates the cinema charts
Just a few weeks ago, the forecasts were clearly in favor of Hollywood star Tom Cruise. Neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer would have the chance to displace the spectacular agent thriller Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 from number 1 on its second weekend of theatrical release. But it turned out quite differently.
With a worldwide box office result of fabulous $337 million Barbie wipes the floor with all the competition. Legendary filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Inception, Tenet) never stood a chance with Oppenheimer. Nevertheless, 174.2 million US dollars at the worldwide box office ensure that Oppenheimer is the most successful first weekend of a film that does not have the three words “The Dark Knight” in the title. Tom Cruise falls back to third place with Mission: Impossible 7 and 74.5 million US dollars and clearly has to admit defeat to the competition.
Those: Insidekino
2023-07-24 08:55:33
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