‘Gran Turismo’ Barely Beats ‘Barbie’ at Box Office, 2nd Time In a Row

‘Barbie’ has been crushed out for the second weekend in a row — however not by a lot … if something, her rivals are barely squeaking by — which says a lot about this juggernaut.

The field workplace numbers are in, and the most recent large film to hit theaters this weekend was “Gran Turismo” — the movie based mostly on the online game, which chronicles the true story about how a gamer became a skilled race automobile driver … all from choosing up a controller.

The film — starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour and Orlando Bloom — took first place, raking in solely $17.3 million domestically … this simply forward of ‘Barbie’s’ $17.1 mil.

What that tells you … individuals are nonetheless flocking to see Margot Robbie and co., even 5 weeks later. In different phrases, ‘Barbie’ has a lot of endurance — and it continues to dominate.

Last week, WB’s different launch — the superhero flick ‘Blue Beetle’ — was the primary to dethrone ‘Barbie’ from the highest spot … however, once more, it did so by a hair. ‘BB’ made simply $25 million or so throughout its debut weekend, solely $4M-$5M greater than ‘Barbie’ did that very same weekend.

So, even then … ‘Barbie’ nonetheless carried out fairly effectively, and that is prone to be the case for these subsequent few weeks.

The quick upcoming blockbusters that’ll have a shot at ‘Barbie’ embody … Denzel in ‘The Equalizer 3’ (Sep. 1), ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ and ‘The Nun II (Sep. 8) and eventually … ‘A Haunting in Venice’ (Sep. 15). After that, there will be a lot extra heavyweights heading into October … which is able to nearly actually knock ‘Barbie’ down a few pegs within the rankings.

Bottom line right here is fairly easy … ‘Barbie’ has confirmed to be the smash hit of the 12 months (to this point), and it is rolling within the dough after which some because it continues to draw ticket gross sales. No phrase when it’s going to be on streaming companies — at this charge, Warner should not be in a rush.