Barbie and Oppenheimer Go Nuclear: Weekend Box Office Results (Jul. 21-23)
It's a
Barbie cinematic world we living in right now and it's fantastic. Its $155M is the biggest opening weekend of the year, beating
Mario and his $146.3M. It's $70.8 million opening Friday is the 24th highest of all time, just slipping past
Thor: Love and Thunder's $69.5M. speaking of
Thor Love and Thunder, it had held the 5th biggest July weekend ever with its $144.1 million opening last year. It's now 6th thanks to
Barbie.
Doesn't look like it's going anywhere either. It should have staying power with its
A CinemaScore. I mean, it's damn near outgrossed
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' $155.6M, which took 7 weeks to get to. It truly is a
Barbie world.
Now we get to
Oppenheimer, which blew with $80.5M. That's more than
Tenet and
Dunkirk's combined opening weekends of $70.5 million. The covid-addled
Tenet made $58.5 million in its entire run.
Oppenheimer left that in the atomic dust.
I wanted to go see this in IMAX 70 mm 15 perf. The closest theater is in Providence which is like an hour and 20 minutes from where I live, so I might have to catch it in IMAX Laser.
So Great numbers for Nolan. That is a win for him individually. That's shades of Bill Belichick pushing Tom Brady out the door and watching him win the Super Bowl in Tampa while he took a 12-4 team and turned it into a 7-9 losing operation who missed the playoffs.
so Nolan is Tom Brady in this analogy and Belichick would be Warner Bros. who f***** up by letting Nolan go to Universal. Except that Warner Bros. released
Barbie which damn near doubled up
Oppenheimer so it really ain't the same. Warner Bros. >>>>>> Bill Belichick.
And Oppenheimer has the IMAX runway for another 2 weeks. It ain't going nowhere and it's
A CinemaScore will also help with that. That was a return to form for Nolan, whose John David Washington starring
Tenet got a
B.
So that takes care of
Barbenheimer. Surely
Mission: Impossible would be next, right?
Thanks to astroturfing like the green screen behind Charlie Murphy,
Sound of Freedom continues its improbable run with another $20.1 million weekend. That makes $124.7 million in the donation plate. Scan the QR Code and save a child's life.
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Falling from 1st to 4th was
M:I - Dead Reckoning, with $19.5M. Unbelievable. That was an MCU level 64.3% drop.
Fallout never had a drop of more than 51%. It only fell by 42% in its second weekend. It did $19.3M in its 3rd weekend.
The Entity is still putting work in overseas which has the running total up to $370.8M globally. And I loved it. It was pure piff. Lorne Balfe really stepped it up with the score, too.
Barbenheimer got this falling off a cliff.
Indy 5 rounds out the top-5 with $6.7M. It's in a battle with
Insidious: The Red Door which posted $6.5M. That makes $159M after 4 weeks. Another movie damn near outgrossed by
Barbie. Barbie telling Indy and Optimus Prime "I sold with your whole album sold in my first week."
Notables
Insidious: The Red Door crosses the $70 million dollar mark and the $150 mark globally with $155.8M.
Transformers: Rise of the Beats is sitting on $427.1M worldwide. Can it pass
Bumblebee's $465.1M?
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | - | Barbie | $155,000,000 | - | 4,243 | $155,000,000 | 1 | Warner Bros. |
2 | - | Oppenheimer | $80,500,000 | - | 3,610 | $80,500,000 | 1 | Universal |
3 | 2 | Sound of Freedom | $20,140,647 | -26.2% | 3,285 | $124,748,584 | 3 | Angel Studios |
4 | 1 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | $19,500,000 | -64.3% | 4,321 | $118,753,469 | 2 | Paramount |
5 | 4 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | $6,700,000 | -45.4% | 2,885 | $159,018,862 | 4 | Disney |
6 | 3 | Insidious: The Red Door | $6,500,000 | -50% | 2,554 | $71,001,673 | 3 | Screen Gems |
7 | 5 | Elemental | $5,800,000 | -36.3% | 2,720 | $137,233,827 | 6 | Disney |
8 | 6 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | $2,815,000 | -53.5% | 1,669 | $375,209,269 | 8 | Columbia |
9 | 7 | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | $1,120,000 | -67.5% | 834 | $155,642,604 | 7 | Paramount |
10 | 8 | No Hard Feelings | $1,075,000 | -67.2% | 1,017 | $49,210,693 | 5 | Sony |