“Barbie”: this is how the film with Margot Robbie went on its first day at the box office

Big ‘pink fever’ for the movie premiere!Barbie”! The new film directed by Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) arrived in theaters in Latin America on Thursday, July 20. While the feature film starring margot robbie It is in theaters in the United States this Friday, July 21, and we already know the amount it has collected since its premiere.

The production inspired by the famous Mattel doll was launched together with Christopher Nolan’s work “Oppenheimer”. Do you want to know how much “Barbie” managed to raise in the United States against his competition? Here we tell you.

Greta Gerwig’s new film was one of the most anticipated releases of the year and has not disappointed the public. In USA“Barbie” has managed to accumulate more than 22.3 million dollars at the box office since its premiere. This is a sum of 1.1 million dollars in previews from Wednesday, July 19 in 500 rooms and 21.2 million from Thursday in 3,400 rooms.

For its part, its biggest competitor of the week, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” earned just $10.5 million at the box office in 3,150 theaters during the same time period.

In this way, “Barbie” becomes the best premiere so far in 2023, surpassing “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3”, which earned 17.5 million dollars in its premiere in the United States on May 5.

It should be noted that, after the failure of “The Flash” with Ezra Miller, the figure of 22.3 million dollars for “Barbie” means a kind of “achievement” for the production company Warner Bros.

“Barbie” and its release in China was basically a flop. Set to hit theaters this Friday, June 21, Greta Gerwig’s film with Margot Robbie had a lukewarm debut at the Chinese box office collect only 960 thousand dollars on its first day of releaseclosing at 6:30 pm This means that “Barbie” debuted in sixth place in China, behind domestic film productions.

It should be noted that, although “Barbie” competes directly with Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” throughout the world, that was not the situation in the Asian country because regulators have not yet assigned a release date to the director of “Batman Begins”.

This tendency of the Chinese public to prefer their own films over those of Hollywood is not new. Last week, “Mission: Impossible – Deadly Judgment Part One” with Tom Cruise was ranked No. 3 after its opening weekend.

Greta Gerwig’s new film follows the story of Barbie (Margot Robbie), who has just been kicked out of Barbieland for not being a perfect-looking doll. After that, she leaves for the human world to find her true happiness with Ken (Ryan Gosling).

The film inspired by the iconic Mattel doll stars Margot Robbie in the role of Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken.

These are all the cast of “Barbie”:

• Margot Robbie as Barbie
• Ryan Gosling as Ken

• Michael Cera as Allen
• Hellen Mirrren as Narrator
• Will Farrell as the CEO of Mattel
• Issa Rae
• Emma MacKey
• nicole coughlin
• kate mckinnon
• Alexandra Shipp
• Hari Neff
• Ana Cruz Kayne
• Ritu Arya
• Dua Lipa
• Kingsley Ben Adir
• Ncuti Gatwa
• simu liu

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