Originally published August 18, 2023. Updated August 23, 2023.
Barbie now has a crown to add to her collection as she sits atop the domestic box office thrown at Warner Bros.
During this past week, the Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster became the highest-grossing Warner Bros. movie in the studio’s 100-year history at the domestic box office.
With a whopping $537.4M, Barbie has the unseating previous champ, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, which brought in $534.9M in 2008. The irony of the situation is Gerwig’s Barbie and Nolan seem intertwined forever, due to the Barbienheimer meme and this record-breaking moment.
Just to show the dominant force that is the Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-led Barbie movie, the film crossed the half billion mark in U.S. and Canada in just 22 days of its release; that was faster than Top Gun: Maverick‘s 30 days from last year and this year’s Super Mario Bros Movie at 31 days.
SEE ALSO: Read our ★ ★ ★ ★ Barbie review here
Barbie had quite the early run at the domestic box office, where she’ll finally be dethroned at number one with Warner Bros releasing Blue Beetle. Early projections have Blue Beetle with a $28M-$32M opening, while Barbie is expected to come in with $22M-$24M in its fourth week.
After being expelled from the utopian Barbie Land for being a less-than-perfect doll, Barbie and Ken go on a journey of self-discovery to the real world.
Directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women), the Barbie movie sees Robbie and Gosling’s iconic toy couple joined by a bumper cast that includes Will Ferrell (Step Brothers), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Kate McKinnon (Bombshell), America Ferrera (Superstore), Ariana Greenblatt (Love and Monsters), Emma Mackey (Sex Education), Alexandra Shipp (tick, tick… BOOM!), Issa Rae (The Lovebirds), Michael Cera (Arrested Development), Hari Nef (And Just Like That…), Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami), Rhea Perlman (Cheers), Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education), Emerald Fennell (The Crown), Sharon Rooney (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain), Scott Evans (Grace and Frankie), Ana Cruz Kayne (Little Women), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Ritu Arya (The Umbrella Academy), Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag) and Helen Mirren (Shazam! Fury of the Gods).
