The 'Barbie' movie made a projected $33.7 million at the weekend box office
‘Barbie’ made a projected $33.7 million at the weekend box office.Atsushi Nishijima/Warner Bros.The Barbie movie out-earned all other films at box office for the fourth weekend in a row.Greta Gerwig’s crowd-pleasing comedy about the iconic Mattel doll sprung to life grossed roughly $33.7 million between Friday and Sunday, according to projections from Boxofficemojo.com.The film has already grossed more than $1.18 billion worldwide, making it the second highest grossing movie of the year behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the highest ever by a female director.Christopher Nolan’s brooding historical epic Oppenheimer finished second this weekend, with $18.8 million.Read More
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The two films opened opposite one another and spawned the Barbenheimer meme.While Oppenheimer has so far played second fiddle to Barbie at the box office, the film — with an estimated production budget of $100 million — has already earned a tidy profit with worldwide grosses of more than $646 million.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem — the seventh film to star the anthropomorphic, sewer-dwelling heroes — came in third with $15.8 million, and Meg 2: The Trench finished fourth with a weekend gross of $12.7 million.The Last Voyage of the Demeter — yet another take on the Dracula myth — came in a disappointing fifth with just $6.5 million in weekend ticket sales.The horror flick inspired its share of memes, most speculating that it would be more successful if the filmmakers had just called it "Dracula on a Boat."
