This Barbie Has Made $1 Billion at the Box Office

glamour.com:

Barbie at the global box office. That's a whole lotta dream houses. , starring and , previously became the biggest blockbuster of the summer on Wednesday, when it surpassed 's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

3's $845 million global haul; Gerwig's film entered the weekend with $880 million in its plastic purse. And even before she walked her pink pumps past the billion-dollar mark, Barbie had already made Greta Gerwig the , besting Patty Jenkins' (2017), which made $822.8 million at the global box office.That's a lot of money, Barbie!By Barbie's ticket sales were, of course, boosted by , which saw cinephiles flocking the cinemas for of Barbie and Christopher Nolan's , about the invention of the atomic bomb.

The frenzy led to Barbie making $356 million in its opening weekend—. Robbie, for one, was confident Barbie would make a billion dollars well before Barbie became the smash hit of the summer.

Robbie, who also serves as an executive producer on the film with her production company LuckyChap, had to do her fair share of convincing producers to rescue Barbie from over . , Robbie said during her pitch meeting she hammered home how successful films like Jurassic Park were that paired “a big idea with a visionary director” a la “dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg.”“I was like, “And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig,” she said.