‘Barbie’ Hits $1 Billion at the Box Office — and Director Greta Gerwig Makes History Again

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This Barbie is a billionaire! Greta Gerwig‘s doll comedy starring Margot Robbie has officially earned over $1 billion at the box office.Barbie pulled in an estimated $53 million domestically in its third weekend, bringing the film’s worldwide box office to $1.03 billion, Sunday estimates indicate.

Gerwig, 40, is the only solo female director to join the billion-dollar director club with a live action movie. (Captain Marvel‘s Anna Boden, who co-directed with Ryan Fleck, is the only other woman to helm any of the 53 movies to surpass $1 billion).The movie stars Robbie, 33, as a Barbie who starts experiencing strange thoughts about death and flat feet.

She determines that the only way to combat her existential dread is to leave Barbieland to find whoever is playing with her in the real world.Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment produced the Mattel film, and the star has made it clear that she made big promises about the box office to the WB before landing the film.“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” she recalled in a pre-SAG-AFTRA strike interview with Collider in July. “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that – pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years.

And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.'”She concluded, “I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesBarbie will be among the highest-grossing movies of the year.