PARA - 'Barbie' 'Oppenheimer' continue movie rule with strong second weekends
2023-07-31 17:58:07 ET
The movies about the bombshell and the bomb continued cruising at a record pace over their second weekend in theaters.
Barbie ( NASDAQ: WBD ) and Oppenheimer ( NASDAQ: CMCSA ) stayed on top of the domestic box office lists, grossing $93M and $46.2M respectively, according to Comscore (a second-weekend dropoff of 43% and 44% respectively).
Barbie's ( WBD ) second weekend was the seventh-best sophomore weekend domestically of all time. It brings the candy-colored movie based on the Mattel ( MAT ) doll to a cumulative total of $351.4M at home; overseas, it added another $122.M to the pile to reach an international total of $423.1M. Worldwide, that's a stellar $774.5M in just two weekends, with an entry to the billion-dollar club days away.
It's the top film in 57 worldwide markets, and it's even the uncommon U.S. film to actually be gaining steam in China, where it's built off a light opening to accelerate to higher grosses.
As for Oppenheimer ( CMCSA ), while it's not the draw that Barbie is, it held its own for another interval in 3,647 locations and has piled up a cumulative total of $174.1M domestically. That film too is strong overseas, Comscore noted, with the weekend bringing $72.4M more, taking its worldwide total so far to $400.4M.
The weekend's best debut went to theme-park ride-based Haunted Mansion ( NYSE: DIS ), which pulled $24.2M across 3,740 locations to end up in third place. Against "Barbenheimer," the relatively expensive film has a bit of a hill to climb to reach profitability for Disney.
In the No. 4 and No. 5 spots were another solid weekend for Sound of Freedom (Angel Studios), with $12.4M bringing its domestic total to $149M; and Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One ( PARA ) ( PARAA ), with $10.7M to reach a domestic total of $139.2M.
Cinema tickers: AMC Entertainment ( NYSE: AMC ); Cineworld ( OTCPK:CNNWQ ); Cinemark ( CNK ); ( IMAX ); Marcus ( MCS ); Reading International ( RDI ); Cineplex ( CGX:CA ); National CineMedia ( NCMI ).
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'Barbie,' 'Oppenheimer' continue movie rule with strong second weekends