Summer may be drawing to a close, but the blockbusters of the season are still basking in box office glory. To wit: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is poised to become the highest-grossing Warner Bros movie of all time globally on Monday.
Through today, the worldwide estimate is $1.34B, meaning just $1M separates it from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 to attain the record.
Meanwhile, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has reached a global cume of $777.2M through today, setting the Universal title firmly on track to cross $800M in the very near future.
Nolan traveled to China this past week, ahead of the film’s launch on August 30. Breaking the international box office weekend down, Oppenheimer was the leader this session with $29.1M in 82 markets including an impressive start in Italy and a 31% drop in holdovers.
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