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“Barbie” lands the best North American debut of the year
Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in a scene from the movie Barbie. photo
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The film by director Greta Gerwig makes the box office ring in the USA and Canada. In Germany, too, “Barbie” jumps to number one in the cinema charts.
Fast-paced comedy Barbie had the best start of the year in North American theaters. She referred the atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer” to second place, as reported by several US media.
The live-action adaptation, about a journey by the famous toy doll and her boyfriend Ken to real-life California, is estimated to have grossed around $155 million in the United States and Canada as of Sunday.
Director Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) has gotten the best start ever for a film directed by a woman, wrote the industry portal “The Hollywood Reporter”.
“Oppenheimer” just behind “Barbie”
The historical drama about the physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who is considered the “father of the atomic bomb”, has grossed around 80.5 million dollars. Since the film by Christopher Nolan (“Inception”, “Dunkirk”) with a running time of 180 minutes is longer than the 114-minute “Barbie”, the cinemas were able to schedule fewer screenings.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” and the child trafficker drama “Sound of Freedom”, which was controversial because of its proximity to conspiracy myths, followed with ticket sales of around 19 million dollars. Adjusted for inflation, it was the fourth-best weekend in North American cinema history, according to Variety.
Writers’ and actors’ strike
For weeks, the studios had successfully fueled the hype about the dual release of the two films: According to a survey by the US Cinema Owners Association, more than 200,000 people saw the two films on the same day, also thanks to very good reviews.
For cinemas, these numbers are a relief amid the writers’ and actors’ strike – market sentiment is also weighed down by the fact that supposed hits like “Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Destiny”, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” and the Pixar film “Elemental” fell far short of expectations.
Thanks to strong results also in foreign markets and budgets of around 145 million US dollars for “Barbie” and around 100 million US dollars for “Oppenheimer”, both films should be highly profitable. In Germany, too, “Barbie” made it to number one in the cinema charts.
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