Screening The Releases - July 21st

[transformers2]

Weekend Actuals:
1.Barbie $162 mil
2.Oppenheimer $82.5 mil
3.Sound of Freedom $19.8 mil
4.Mission-Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One $19.4 mil (-65%, ouch)
5.Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny $6.7 mil
6.Insidious: The Red Door $6.6 mil
7.Elemental $5.7 mil
8.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse $2.9 mil
9.Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $1.14 mil
10.No Hard Feelings $1.08 mil

PTA:
1.Barbie $38,185
2.Oppenheimer $22,840
3.Sound of Freedom $6,035
4.Theater Camp $5,509 (51 theaters)
5.Mission-Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One $4,479

Cobweb didn't report

Records set this weekend:
Overall:
-3rd best weekend in domestic box office history and the best since Avengers: Endgame's opening on the final weekend of April 2019

-1st time in history that a pair of new releases opened to $100+ mil and $50+ mil respectively.

-Barbie:
-Highest opening for a film directed by a woman, surpassing Captain Marvel
-Highest opening of 2023 so far, surpassing The Super Mario Bros. Movie
-Best non-sequel or DC opening in Warner Brothers history
-Highest opening for a film based on a toy, surpassing Transformers: Dark of the Moon
-New career-high opening for Margot Robbie, surpassing Suicide Squad
-New career-high opening for Ryan Gosling (by nearly $130 mil!!!), surpassing Blade Runner 2049

Oppenheimer:
-New record OW among Christopher Nolan's films outside of the Dark Knight trilogy
-Best IMAX opening for both Nolan and Universal
-Highest ever global opening for a biopic and 2nd best in the US behind only American Sniper's wide expansion.
-Best opening for an R-rated film in 2023, surpassing John Wick: Chapter 4

[Walleye413]

I was just looking at Gosling's IMDB page yesterday. I like him a lot, and I was surprised to see how few "hits" he's had. There are a number of actors that I always seem to enjoy, and are doing plenty well I'm sure, but rarely have that crazy breakout role. I'm thinking Joseph Gordon Leavitt. Diego Luna. I felt that way about Michael B Jordan and then Creed and Black Panther seemed to skyrocket his Q rating. I don't know how much Barbie will elevate Ryan's status, but it's nice to see a guy I've always enjoyed on the screen have a monster hit. Even if he is only Ken

[BanksIsDaFuture]

thats absolutely wild for Barbie!

I tried to go on Saturday and Sunday, but all of the showings were sold out. I wonder how high it could've gone if it didn't have to give a lot of screens to Oppenheimer

[numbersix]

Just incredible, and heartening to see so many cinemas full. One of London's city cinemas are showing Oppenheimer (IMAX) at 4am to meet demand.

And Barbie's outselling it here!