Barbie has raked in $1. 34Bn, currently paying $9.24

With, reportedly, still a week to go, Barbie needs just $19M pass Super Mario Bros.

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Barbie has raked in $1. 34Bn, currently paying $9.24

With, reportedly, still a week to go, Barbie needs just $19M pass Super Mario Bros.

Will the IMAX showings count?

@bratface said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Barbie has raked in $1. 34Bn, currently paying $9.24

With, reportedly, still a week to go, Barbie needs just $19M pass Super Mario Bros.

Will the IMAX showings count?

Great question. I just look at whatever the industry includes as theatrical run revenue for each movie, whatever streams flow into the official numbers.

How do you tally box office revenue?

@DRDMovieMusings said:

@bratface said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Barbie has raked in $1. 34Bn, currently paying $9.24

With, reportedly, still a week to go, Barbie needs just $19M pass Super Mario Bros.

Will the IMAX showings count?

Great question. I just look at whatever the industry includes as theatrical run revenue for each movie, whatever streams flow into the official numbers.

How do you tally box office revenue?

I don't. I read that Barbie was going to IMAX in October & was wondering if that will count (since it's going to streaming in September). I don't know how the industry calculates all of the different ways of screening a movie.

@bratface said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

@bratface said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Barbie has raked in $1. 34Bn, currently paying $9.24

With, reportedly, still a week to go, Barbie needs just $19M pass Super Mario Bros.

Will the IMAX showings count?

Great question. I just look at whatever the industry includes as theatrical run revenue for each movie, whatever streams flow into the official numbers.

How do you tally box office revenue?

I don't. I read that Barbie was going to IMAX in October & was wondering if that will count (since it's going to streaming in September). I don't know how the industry calculates all of the different ways of screening a movie.

Gotcha. Let's keep an eye on Box Office Mojo and The Numbers sites. We can take a snapshot mid-September and then see if the needle moves more by the end of October.

@bratface said:

Will the IMAX showings count?

It is a limited one-week re-release with exclusive new post-credits footage, which director Greta Gerwig herself has chosen. It will begin on Friday, 22 September 2023 in North America and select international countries.

As far as I know re-releases of movies are included in the box office numbers. Some examples: "Gone with the Wind (1939)", "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)", "Jurassic Park (1993)", "Titanic (1997)", "Avatar (2009)", "Avengers: Endgame (2019)".

I am glad that Warner Bros., although they did not extend "Barbie (2023)"'s 45-day theatrical window, at least is giving the movie a showing in IMAX. I was planning to make my last bucket of Barbie popcorn and dreaded having to go 'cold turkey'. Now I'll have one more week at the cinema to have my daily dose of the pink pill.

Sidenote: MMA Fighter and Bare Knuckle Boxer are happy too.

Barbie stands this week at: $594,801,000 Domestic and $1,340,301,000 WW.

Beating Mario's $574,547,790 Domestic as predicted, but will it beat it's $1,359,332,753 WW? It only needs $19,031,753 to do it. Anyone still doubting this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

"Oppenheimer (2023)" finally beats "Barbie (2023)" in its sixth weekend.

World box office August 25-27, 2023

1. Oppenheimer (Universal): $38.1 million
   
2. Barbie (Warner Bros): $35.3 million

@bratface said:

So when a movie goes to a streaming channel it no longer shows in the theaters?

Not had a lot of free/keyboard time for a couple of weeks, so just catching up.

Our local cinema often shows movies well into their streaming release. I do feel that the increasingly short theatrical window can only hurt takings from cinema releases, though. Many people have large screens with quite possibly a better picture and even sound than their local cinema. There seems little incentive to pay huge amounts for a trip to the cinema when in a few weeks you can see the movie for <£20 (if not free).

That said, the current strikes are meaning some theatres are showing re-releases with some success. We didn't get the EncoRRRe release of RRR in the UK, and they kinda dropped the ball by not doing an OscaRRR one - maybe it's time for a StRRRike showing?

Is there a new blonde on the block? Apparently it's hard to get tickets for Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour - not just the live one, but the movie version. Costs must have been relatively low and while I can't see it doing the huge business of Barbenheimer it might make a dent in DRD's chart due to its presumably low production costs.

Barbie has fully passed Super Mario Bros., sitting on $1,381,009,254 worldwide.

This has got to be among the most wrongly-titled threads on all of TMDb. Detractors could not have been more wrong.

To be fair, DRDMovieMusings-- and I am by no means taking the side of the haters here --I don't think even Barbie's supporters thought it would do so well.

Also, speaking of haters, it appears that Mechajutaro/BaronOfHair/NeoLosman has been banned, yet again. To no one's surprise, I'd imagine.

@northcoast said:

To be fair, DRDMovieMusings-- and I am by no means taking the side of the haters here --I don't think even Barbie's supporters thought it would do so well.

Also, speaking of haters, it appears that Mechajutaro/BaronOfHair/NeoLosman has been banned, yet again. To no one's surprise, I'd imagine.

Yes, thank goodness. It happened over a week ago!

@northcoast said:

To be fair, DRDMovieMusings-- and I am by no means taking the side of the haters here --I don't think even Barbie's supporters thought it would do so well.

Including me! I've always maintained, let's wait and see what we shall see.

Also, speaking of haters, it appears that Mechajutaro/BaronOfHair/NeoLosman has been banned, yet again.

Incredible, ain't it?! If anyone has enjoyed - and taken for granted - more than their fair share of patience and benefit of doubt and latitude, it was him. And all he did was trample on it.

To no one's surprise, I'd imagine.

You're absolutely right, no one should be surprised. For a guy like him, it was not a matter of if, just a matter of when.

@northcoast said:

Also, speaking of haters, it appears that Mechajutaro/BaronOfHair/NeoLosman has been banned, yet again. To no one's surprise, I'd imagine.

I checked my blocklist at the weekend, and while he wasn't on it (once in a while he could manage to post something that didn't make him sound like a tin foil hat wearer or Beavis and Butthead), I noticed that a lot are no longer "with us".