Comedy Barbie: The Movie

[SomeOldGuy]

Passed GotG3 yesterday, will pass Spider-Verse today. Look out, Mario, Barbie’s coming for you!

Fun fact: yesterday’s $15 million for Barbie is the biggest non-holiday second Monday ever.

 

[Incarnadine]

Passed GotG3 yesterday, will pass Spider-Verse today. Look out, Mario, Barbie’s coming for you!

Fun fact: yesterday’s $15 million for Barbie is the biggest non-holiday second Monday ever.

Yup, and 11th biggest 2nd Monday even counting holiday inflated Mondays.

I didn't realize Barbie passed $800m WW yesterday. Looks like it will pass a Barbillion easily this weekend.

 

[kguillou]

Mario will be dethroned by mid August. Maverick is the real target.

 

[Iceman]

Monday estimate is $14.9m. Not as exciting as last week, but still a pretty impressive number. Barbie should pass $400m domestic on Thursday.

That’s pretty damn exciting for weekdays in its second week! Again more than I expected. The top end for this keeps drifting out, fascinating to watch the numbers unfold.

 

[Iceman]

Passed GotG3 yesterday, will pass Spider-Verse today. Look out, Mario, Barbie’s coming for you!

Fun fact: yesterday’s $15 million for Barbie is the biggest non-holiday second Monday ever.

So we are in uncharted territory on that front.

Yep, Mario better look out.

 

[psylockolussus]

I still haven't seen that Super Mario Bros. movie because it doesn't appeal to me. That and this Barbie movie both don't appeal to me - the latter which I'm now regretting that I didn't wait til its on screaming.

Though I'd watch a Barbie vs Mario movie (in streaming).

Mario will be dethroned by mid August. Maverick is the real target.

I don't think that would matter since Top Gun Maverick is the king of 2022 (or was that Avatar 2?)

I saw Maverick in a theater and actually enjoyed it, like Dead Reckoning Part One. Avatar 2 though I only watched it like last month and good thing, I didn't need to spend 40 dollars for it. It was so long.

 

[Incarnadine]

Tuesday was $15.3m and Wednesday estimate is $12.7m for a total of $394.4m domestic. Easily hitting $400m tomorrow.
Really solid holds, especially with the new TMNT opening yesterday (weird that it opened on a Tuesday) which seemed to negatively affect all the holdovers except Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Hard to predict the weekend, The Meg 2 also opens. I think Barbie can stay above $50m this weekend.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Iceman]

Tuesday was $15.3m and Wednesday estimate is $12.7m for a total of $394.4m domestic. Easily hitting $400m tomorrow.
Really solid holds, especially with the new TMNT opening yesterday (weird that it opened on a Tuesday) which seemed to negatively affect all the holdovers except Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Hard to predict the weekend, The Meg 2 also opens. I think Barbie can stay above $50m this weekend.

Maybe the other holdovers lost their screens?

Loving these weekday numbers and hope we are in for another stonker of a weekend coming up. $50m would be great.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

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Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Crosses $400M, ‘Meg 2’ $3.2M Previews – Deadline

 

[Incarnadine]

If/when there is a Barbie 2 it's going to cost WB.

Apparently none of the major players (Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling) have a sequel clause in their contracts and aren't obligated to return, which likely means big pay raises if they do sign.

Apparently WB saw that it was going to be huge months before release and tried to get Gerwig to sign on for B2, but her agency shut down negotiations until after Barbie released.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I feel like this was a cross between, Lego movie, stranger than fiction and Elf (the fact that all those movie happen to feature Will Ferrell is just a weird coincidences)

 

[Incarnadine]

$17.0m Friday estimate. That will likely put it at $53m-$55m for the weekend and roughly $460m domestic.

 

[samsnee]

 

[Kane52630]

 

[samsnee]

 

[Drizzle]

Damn, Barbie just went and wiped the first Avatar from existence.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Forget Barbie 2, Here’s the Movie Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie Should Make Together Next

 

[Lily Adler]

In celebration of this momentous occasion, I have Barbie-fied the Hype for a day.

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[Silvermoth]

Forget Barbie 2, Here’s the Movie Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie Should Make Together Next

I would love to see them make a Star Sapphire movie.

I finally saw it and everyone was right, it’s brilliant. Very unexpected! Hope they take as big a swing when they do the Thomas the tank movie

 

[Drizzle]

In celebration of this momentous occasion, I have Barbie-fied the Hype for a day.

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@squeekness is not gonna like this.

 

[CaptainWagner]

They won’t because they aren’t in the business of making theatrical releases. Their goal is to get people to sign up for the service and that doesn’t happen if you give them the option of seeing it in theaters

And that is very, VERY dumb. No one is signing up for Netflix to get exclusive access to their original movies. And even if the movies do draw anyone in - the value isn't lessoned by them going theatrical first - if anything, it's INCREASED, because the movie will make a larger first impression, therefore increasing its worth on streaming.

They're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on blockbuster movies and then refusing to put them where they belong. Purely leaving money on the table out of pride because they won't accept their "innovation" isn't as worthy a medium as the theater.

 

[sdgrandia86]

Just watched it and I thought it was brilliant. I absolutely loved it. I had read some breakdowns and was expecting a coming of age story but was blown away by all the subtext and depth they were able to include in a kids movie. I'm definitely buying this and will probably check it out again in theaters.

I also loved the soundtrack, with the Ken song being the standout. That was my Ken Slash playing the guitar! Waxwork records is releasing the OST in vinyl!

 

[Incarnadine]

Add another $9M for Monday (-39% from last Monday).

The weekly drops have been good so far but should get even better as competition from new releases is going to be very weak. The biggest release this weekend is Last Voyage of the Demeter, which I'll be surprised if it does much more than $10M for the weekend. After that the following weekend has Strays and Blue Beetle. I think Strays may have a mini breakout and open over $15M, maybe even edge towards $20M. Blue Beetle is tougher to estimate, I've seen very little promotion, it feels like it's just getting dumped, but it doesn't look terrible.