Barbie Ken't be Stopped; Banks a Billy: Weekend Box Office Results (Aug. 4-6)
What a weekend for Warner Bros.
Barbie has reached the billion dollar club in 17 days.
Fresh off a $53 million weekend. It's crossed the $450 million dollar mark with $459.3 million.
That makes it the 24th highest grossing movie of all time domestically. It just passed
Age of Ultron's $459.0 million.
Star Wars Episode 4, is next to fall with its $460.9 million.
With $1.031 billion, it is the 45th highest grossing movie of all time. It's 3 and 1/2 million away from surpassing
Despicable Me 3's $1.034 billion.
Barbie is really crushing her closest competition. That is
The Super Mario Bros. Movie and last year's
Top Gun: Maverick, both of which are billion plus dollar earners.
Mario had made $390.3 million through 17 days. So the doll is 17.8% ahead of the plumber
Bros. at the same time in their runs. And she is 16.4% ahead of
Maverick's $395.1 million after 17 days.
Barbie wasn't the only Warner Bros. property that cleaned up this weekend. With $30 million,
Meg 2, improbably, finished in second place. It's even better internationally, with another $112 million, bringing it's global opening to $142 million. That's just a good old-fashioned shark-fueled summer blockbuster.
That $30 million opening is down 33.9% from
The Meg's $45.4 million, but it opened in 615 fewer theaters. That's a win no matter how you slice it.
Just you try and stop Statham.
Oppenheimer took 3rd with $28.7 mill. With $228.5 million, it becomes Nolan's 4th highest grossing movie, behind
The Dark Knight,
The Dark Knight Rises and
Inception.
Inception made $292.5 million so we'll see if that is the next to fall.
Oppenheimer's $555.8 global running total passes
Dunkirk's entire run of $512.3 million.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem had a nice $28 million opening, bringing its 5-day total to $43 million. It was just 5.4% off of
Elemental's $29.6 million opening. Who is a different story compared to the 2016
Ninja Turtles movie. It opened up 20.7% lower than that movies 35.3 million. Go Ninja, go Ninja, go?
Disney's
Haunted Mansion rounded out the top-5 with $8.9 million. That's a very Marvel-like 62.7% drop in its second weekend.
That brings its total up to $42 mill after two weeks. The original
The Haunted Mansion made $45.9 in the same time. So that puts the remake 8.5% off the pace.
And
The Haunted Mansion went on to make $75.8 million. Gotta think positively.
That's right.
Notables
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, fell out of the top five but it's up to $151 million domestically and $493.8 million globally.
Rogue Nation had made $157.5 million after four weeks.
Dead Reckoning is lagging by 4.1%.
Talk to Me had an outstanding second weekend with a 39.9% hold and 6.2 million. I've heard nothing but great things and I've noticed that
@Lootpack thread is generating some good discussion. I may have to go see this one.
With $22.1 million, it's on the verge of overtaking other A24 horror movies including
The Witch and its $25.1 million and
Midsommar which made $27.4 million.
With $80.6 million,
Insidious: The Red Door, is on the verge of overtaking
Chapter 2's $83.5 million to become the highest grossing domestic entry in the franchise.
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
| 1 | 1 | Barbie | $53,000,000 | -43% | 4,178 | $459,381,000 | 3 | Warner Bros. |
| 2 | - | Meg 2: The Trench | $30,000,000 | - | 3,503 | $30,000,000 | 1 | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | 2 | Oppenheimer | $28,700,000 | -38.6% | 3,612 | $228,568,620 | 3 | Universal |
| 4 | - | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | $28,000,000 | - | 3,858 | $43,073,468 | 1 | Paramount |
| 5 | 3 | Haunted Mansion | $8,971,000 | -62.7% | 3,740 | $42,020,808 | 2 | Disney |
| 6 | 4 | Sound of Freedom | $7,031,662 | -45.1% | 2,975 | $163,472,260 | 5 | Angel Studios |
| 7 | 5 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | $6,450,000 | -39.3% | 2,422 | $151,002,770 | 4 | Paramount |
| 8 | 6 | Talk to Me | $6,272,232 | -39.9% | 2,370 | $22,135,092 | 2 | A24 |
| 9 | 7 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | $1,521,000 | -61.7% | 1,190 | $170,640,059 | 6 | Disney |
| 10 | 8 | Elemental | $1,211,000 | -65.1% | 1,160 | $148,298,938 | 8 | Disney |
a billion dollars. i hope margots pay was a cut of the box office
Damn.
