With its box office result, “Barbie” even surpasses the final film in the “Harry Potter” series.
Barbie’s record hunt continues. After Greta Gerwig’s work on the iconic doll made Margot Robbie the top earner, the Warner Bros. film studio is next up. Because “Barbie” is now the highest-grossing film the studio has ever produced and released. The strip even overtakes a representative from the “Harry Potter” franchise.
“Barbie” easily breaks the billion mark
This summer, “Barbenheimer” will dominate cinemas around the world. The portmanteau of course means “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”. The radically different films were declared a must-watch double feature of the hot months by the internet community and the hype ignited. While Nolan’s biopic about the physicist of the same name became the number two box office hit of all time, “Barbie” still holds the number one spot.
The film has grossed an impressive $1.342 billion at the global box office to date. A record result for the film studio Warner Bros. With this result, “Barbie” even dethroned another childhood icon – namely “Harry Potter”. The final installment in the fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, was the studio’s previous top earner at the same profit. However, this does not include the inflation rate.
“Barbie” is slowly but surely making its way into the ranks of the most financially successful films. On the eternal list, the work soon pushes past the current number 15, “Super Mario Bros.”. If things continue to go well for Barbie, he would soon overtake Frozen 2 on the 14. Incidentally, James Cameron’s “Avatar” is still unbeaten in first place, which grossed almost three billion US dollars, but at that time it was still for 20th Century Fox.