Photo credit:  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 12: Margot Robbie (R) and Ryan Gosling attend the European premiere of ‘Barbie’ at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London, United Kingdom on July 12, 2023. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

 

There’s no question that Barbenheimer was a hit at the domestic box office over the weekend. Barbie broke a number of records, taking the top spot with $155 million over the three-day stretch. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this marks the best-ever opening for a female director. The film also broke the record for highest debut this year.

Oppenheimer took second place with $ 80.5 million. According to analytics company EntTelligence, “Barbenheimer is going to pull in approximately 18.5M patrons this weekend. Other than Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021 (20M patrons), this is the most foot traffic EntTelligence has monitored, for a three-day new opening film or combination of films, since our formation during the dark period of the pandemic.”

Box Office Numbers from Friday (July 21st) through Sunday (July 23rd):

1. Barbie, $155 million
2. Oppenheimer, $80.5 million
3. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, $19.5 million
4. Sound of Freedom, $20.1 million
5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, $6.7 million
6. Insidous: The Red Door, $6.5 million
7. Elemental, $5.8 million
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, $2.8 million
9. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, $1.12 million
10. No Hard Feelings, $1.075 million