'Barbie' Hits $1 Billion at the Box Office

This Barbie is a billionaire! Greta Gerwig‘s doll comedy starring Margot Robbie has formally earned over $1 billion at the field workplace.

Barbie pulled in an estimated $53 million domestically in its third weekend, bringing the movie’s worldwide field workplace to $1.03 billion, Sunday estimates point out. Gerwig, 40, is the solely solo feminine director to affix the billion-dollar director membership with a dwell motion film. (Captain Marvel‘s Anna Boden, who co-directed with Ryan Fleck, is the solely different lady to helm any of the 53 motion pictures to surpass $1 billion).

The film stars Robbie, 33, as a Barbie who begins experiencing unusual ideas about demise and flat toes. She determines that the solely option to fight her existential dread is to depart Barbieland to seek out whoever is taking part in together with her in the actual world.

Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment produced the Mattel movie, and the star has made it clear that she made huge guarantees about the field workplace to the WB earlier than touchdown the movie.

“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” she recalled in a pre-SAG-AFTRA strike interview with Collider in July. “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that – pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years. And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’”

She concluded, “I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make.”

Barbie will probably be amongst the highest-grossing motion pictures of the yr. It’s solely second to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which hit theaters in April and pulled in $1.35 billion at the worldwide field workplace.

'Barbie' Hits $1 Billion at the Box Office — and Director Greta Gerwig Makes History Again — Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and America Ferrera. Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock

Gerwig initially wasn’t set to direct Barbie, which additionally stars Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera and Will Ferrell. Gerwig and companion Noah Baumbach co-wrote the script and the Little Women filmmaker realized she needed to be the one helming the movie.

“I was originally meant to just write it with Noah, and then we finished the script and that was the thing that made me want to direct it. It felt so clear to me: If they didn’t want to make that [version], I didn’t need to make it,” Gerwig informed the New York Times final month.

She continued, “Margot, as the producer and star, was really the first person to line up and say, ‘I want to do it her way.’ And then as we started adding collaborators and gathering more cast, suddenly there was a large number of people who were excited to do something that was this, excuse the pun, out of the box.”

While Barbie has surpassed expectations, so has her opening day competitor Oppenheimer. While the second half of the Barbenheimer phenomenon hasn’t fairly joined the billion-dollar membership, director Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb drama surpassed $550 million at the worldwide field workplace.

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