'Barbie' beats Batman: Mattel blockbuster is now Warner Bros.' highest-grossing domestic release

This Barbie is simply a container bureau queen. He's conscionable Batman.

On Tuesday "Barbie" topped $537 million, making it the highest-grossing home movie successful Warner Bros. Discovery's 100-year history. The movie surpassed Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," which generated $536 cardinal successful 2008, for the title.

The bubblegum pinkish collaboration betwixt filmmaker Greta Gerwig, Mattel and Warner Bros. has collected much than $1.2 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau since its July 21 release.

It is the archetypal billion-dollar movie for the recently minted Warner Bros. Discovery, the effect of the Warner Media and Discover merger successful 2022, and only the 2nd movie released successful 2023 to bash so. Universal's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" has topped $1.3 cardinal since its April debut.

The occurrence of "Barbie" comes astatine a clip erstwhile blockbuster-budgeted films person struggled to link with moviegoing audiences. Alongside Nolan's latest diagnostic "Oppenheimer," which has grossed much than $250 cardinal domestically, "Barbie" proves that moviegoers are inactive funny successful leaving their couches for prime films and unsocial communal experiences.

The Margot Robbie-led movie has been fig 1 astatine the container bureau since its debut and is connected way to beryllium the highest-grossing movie of the year. Box bureau analysts expect "Barbie" to proceed to cod container bureau receipts successful the weeks to come, arsenic it faces constricted contention from caller releases and rides a question of affirmative connection of mouth.

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