Warner Bros’ Barbie ain’t missin’ no steps as the Greta Gerwig-directed title is clicking past the $600M mark at the domestic box office in its 43rd day of release.
Note that it took Top Gun: Maverick 47 days to cross that threshold, with the Tom Cruise pic ending its stateside run at $718.7M.
Barbie is pacing 2% ahead of the Top Gun sequel’s running total at the same point in time. It took Avatar: The Way of Water 40 days (final total $684M) to cross the six-century mark at the domestic box office.
So many records broken by Mattel’s top doll: Top-grossing movie of the year stateside, Warner Bros. highest-grossing movie ever at $1.34B ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling’s highest-grossing movies ever, top-grossing live-action title by a female director in North America and worldwide and on and on. RELATED: ‘Barbie’ Squashes ‘Super Mario Bros Movie’ As Top-Grossing 2023 Film At Domestic Box Office Barbie will get a week’s run in Imax starting September 22, which should juice grosses more before Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour takes over the autumn box office in mid-October.
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