‘Barbie’ hits $1 billion in global ticket sales as director Greta Gerwig makes history

Greta Gerwig needs to be feeling closer to fine today. In simply three weeks in theaters, “Barbie” is about to sail previous $1 billion in international ticket gross sales, breaking a file for feminine administrators that was beforehand held by Patty Jenkins, who helmed “Marvel Girl.”

“Barbie,” which Gerwig directed and co-wrote, added one other $53 million from 4,178 North American areas this weekend in keeping with studio estimates on Sunday. The Margot Robbie-led and produced movie has been comfortably seated in first place for 3 weeks and it’s hardly completed but. Warner Bros. mentioned the movie will cross $1 billion earlier than the tip of the day.

In trendy field workplace historical past, simply 53 motion pictures have remodeled $1 billion, not accounting for inflation, and “Barbie” is now the largest to be directed by one lady, supplanting “Marvel Girl’s” $821.8 million international complete.

Three motion pictures that have been co-directed by girls are nonetheless forward of “Barbie,” together with “Frozen” ($1.3 billion) and “Frozen 2” ($1.45 billion) each co-directed by Jennifer Lee and “Captain Marvel” ($1.1 billion), co-directed by Anna Boden. However, “Barbie” has handed “Captain Marvel” domestically with $459.4 million (versus $426.8 million), thereby claiming the North American file for live-action motion pictures directed by girls.

New competitors got here this weekend within the type of the animated, PG-rated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” and the Jason Statham shark sequel, “Meg 2: The Trench,” each of which have been neck-in-neck with Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” additionally in its third weekend, for the second-place spot.

“Meg 2” managed to sneak forward and land in second place. It overcame its abysmal critiques to attain a $30 million opening weekend from 3,503 areas. The Warner Bros. launch, directed by Ben Wheatley, at the moment has a 29% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a B- CinemaScore from audiences. The thriller was launched in 3D, which accounted for 22% of its first weekend enterprise.

Third place went to “Oppenheimer,” which added $28.7 million from 3,612 areas in North America, bringing its home complete to $228.6 million. In simply three weeks, the J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic starring Cillian Murphy has develop into the best grossing R-rated movie of the yr (forward of “John Wick Chapter 4”) and the sixth-biggest of the yr total, surpassing “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”

“Oppenheimer” additionally celebrated a landmark, crossing $500 million globally in three weeks. Its worldwide tally is at the moment $552.9 million, which places it forward of “Dunkirk,” which clocked out with $527 million in 2017, and has develop into Nolan’s fifth-biggest film ever. It’s additionally now among the many 4 prime grossing biographies ever (firm consists of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Ardour of the Christ” and “American Sniper”) and the largest World Conflict II film of all time.

Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” was shut behind in fourth place with an estimated $28 million from 3,858 theaters in North America. Since opening on Wednesday, the movie, which is using on glorious critiques (96% on Rotten Tomatoes) and viewers scores, has earned $43.1 million.

“That is a type of motion pictures that could be a multigenerational pleasure,” mentioned Chris Aronson, Paramount’s president of home distribution. “I feel the enduring reputation of ‘Turtles’ is displaying its true colours. And there hasn’t been an animated movie in eight weeks and there received’t be one other for eight weeks which is nice for us.”

“Turtles” price $70 million to provide and contains a starry voice solid that features Jackie Chan, Ice Dice, Paul Rudd, Ayo Edebiri and Seth Rogen, who produced and co-wrote the movie, which leans into the “teenage” side of the turtles.

“Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” and even the shock, anti-trafficking hit “Sound of Freedom” (now at $163.5 million and forward of “Mission: Inconceivable 7”) have helped gasoline a growth on the field workplace, bringing in lots of hundreds of thousands greater than was anticipated and serving to to offset pains attributable to some summer season disappointments.

“After ‘The Flash,’ ‘Indiana Jones’ and, to a sure extent, ‘Mission: Inconceivable,’ individuals have been saying the summer season was a disappointment. But it surely’s not over but,” mentioned Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “We’re going to have a summer season that’s going to exit on a excessive be aware.”

Estimated ticket gross sales for Friday by way of Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, in keeping with Comscore. Ultimate home figures will likely be launched Monday.

1. “Barbie,” $53 million.

2. “Meg 2: The Trench,” $30 million.

3. “Oppenheimer,” $28.7 million.

4. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” $28 million.

5. “Haunted Mansion,” $9 million.

6. “Sound of Freedom,” $7 million.

7. “Mission: Inconceivable — Useless Reckoning Half I,” $6.5 million.

8. “Discuss to Me,” $6.3 million.

9. “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani,” $1.5 million.

10. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future,” $1.5 million.