‘Barbie’ Breaks more Box Office Records

The blockbuster faced few challenges on a quiet weekend at the box office, which also saw ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ sink.

Greta Gerwig attends the 'Barbie' Press Tour, Sydney Australia 2023. Photography by Caroline McCredie for Warner Bros/NBC Universal. Contact: jade.perry@nbcuni.com.

‘Barbie’ continues to impress this weekend, staying at the top of the domestic box office for the fourth week in a row, while Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ continued to bring in the cash at roughly half the speed of Greta Gerwig’s film.

Elsewhere, the new releases didn’t make much of an impact, with one in particular failing to capture the audience’s imagination.

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Another successful weekend for ‘Barbie’

(Center) Margot Robbie as Barbie in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Barbie,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.

‘Barbie ‘ took in $33.7 million this weekend, making for more than $526 million domestically. Outside the United States, the movie nudged past $657 million for a grand total of $1.18 billion global haul.

And the movie continues to earn accolades, including becoming the second-highest earning movie in Warner Bros. history (it has its sights on ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II’, which remains on the top spot with $1.315 billion).

For Gerwig, it was also a good weekend –– thanks to ‘Barbie’s success, she’s now the highest-grossing female filmmaker in the world. Her new film passed the earnings of ‘Frozen II’, which was co-directed by Jennifer Lee.

‘Oppenheimer’ and others

Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in 'Oppenheimer,' written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

While Christopher Nolan’s latest isn’t quite on the same level, it is showing remarkable holding power for a three-hour, talky biopic movie about a tricky subject. ‘Oppenheimer’ is now sitting at $649 worldwide and is the highest-grossing World War II movie, ahead of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and Nolan’s own ‘Dunkirk’.

‘Oppenheimer’ saw off the new releases –– mostly because there was only one wide-ish new arrival, and it definitely make much of an impact on the charts.

Third place went to animated holdover ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ which has so far earned more than $72 million domestically. And giant shark movie ‘Meg 2: The Trench’ took in $12.7 million for fourth place, with a $54. 1 million total (both of those movies are also seeing a boost from takings elsewhere in the world).

Universal’s latest attempt to open up its horror vault fared about as well as the sailors on the titular boat as ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ docked at fifth place with an anemic $6.5 million.

(L to R) Clemens (Corey Hawkins) and Anna (Aisling Franciosi) in 'The Last Voyage of the Demeter,' directed by André Øvredal. Photo Credit: Rainer Bajo/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. © 2023 Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.

The long-developing terror title adapted from a chapter of ‘Dracula’ –– which sees the bloodsucker cause havoc on the ship as he travels from Transylvania to England –– opened to even lower figures than the studio’s latest attempt to mine the vampire’s story for a movie.

This year’s ‘Renfield’, which landed in April, is considered far from a success, and that opened to $8 million. ‘Demeter’ will have to hope that global audiences help to boost it –– though some markets, such as the UK, don’t even have a date for the movie yet.

Finally, Bleecker Street Media’s ‘Jules’, which sees Ben Kingsley as a mild-mannered small-town resident whose life is upended when an alien crash lands in his backyard. The movie, which debuted on 780 screens, earned $1 million.

(L to R) Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Barbie,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.