Barbie has officially become the year’s biggest box office hit, after the doll’s big-screen earnings overtook the Super Mario Bros Movie’s total.
The Barbie movie, which sees Margot Robbie’s titular toy swap her pink fantasy home for the real world, has now made $1.38bn (£1.1bn) globally.
That has taken it past the $1.36bn taken by the Super Mario Bros Movie.
Barbie has also helped the US summer box office reach the $4bn (£3.2bn) mark for the first time since the pandemic.
Analysts did not expect cinemas to reach that milestone, but the success of Barbenheimer - Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which were released on the same day in July - propelled takings past last year’s total of $3.4bn (£2.7bn).
Industry experts also predicted that the Super Mario Bros Movie would be the biggest film of 2023. But Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, has proved them wrong on that front too.
The biggest films of 2023 so far
1. Barbie - $1.38bn
2. The Super Mario Bros Movie - $1.36bn
3. Oppenheimer - $853m
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 - $846m
5. Fast X - $705m
I think the controversy between it’s release alongside Oppenheimer and the people raging about it helped.
Not at all to say it’s a bad movie. But a good movie with some controversy is going to draw more people than a good movie with no controversy.
What controversy has there been? Genuine question, I’ve only heard really positive things about the film.
Political provocateurs on the right claimed the film was an attack on masculinity as well as an attempt to make a children’s toy into ‘woke’ leftist extremism. It isn’t, but they make their living selling rage to their viewers so they made a big stink anyway.
Ahh ok, luckily I must have missed that!
Hadn’t even been aware of it. I really am out of the loop on this stuff. What social medias was this sentiment most prominent on?
Folks like ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh. And the echo chambers they operate in
I don’t follow them.
I think it was the map incident no?
Map incident?
Oh I thought someone got angry because there was a map in the movie that showed China doing China things or whatever. It was very in passing so I don’t remember the details but I thought it was stupid.
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I forgot there was a map in the movie, which shows how insignificant it is. Did a quick search on DuckDuckGo here … and yea anyone taking that map seriously is just kicking up a fuss.
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