Barbie and Oppenheimer aka Barbenheimer continue to rule the box office in their second week of release. In just 9 days, the two movies have made a collective amount of US$1.17 billion.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has taken the top spot at the global box office with US$774.5 million and will likely become the second film of the year to pass US$1 billion. Barbie has also become the third-biggest film of the year worldwide when it passed the half-a-billion mark three days ago and broke box office records as the biggest opening weekend for a movie directed by a woman.
As for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the movie has a running total of US$400.4 million. It is estimated to be the biggest Nolan film of all time in 28 markets including India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey. At the moment, Oppenheimer holds the 10th position among this year’s biggest Hollywood films.
In Barbie, Barbie and Ken leave their seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land to experience the real world. The two dolls soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans. You can read our review here.
Oppenheimer, on the other hand, follows the infamous journey of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer who famously led the Manhattan Project and is also known to be the creator of the atomic bomb.You can read our review here.
Barbenheimer is not leaving the cinemas anytime soon. You can still catch them now.
Don’t judge a book by its cover, for behind all this makeup, is a geek just like you. To simply put it, superheroes, Star Wars, Harry Potter and all things gore and creepy makes this girly girl swoon.
Natalie
