‘Barbie’ Hits $1.18 Billion at Global Box Office, ‘Oppenheimer’ Nears $650 Million Mark

Barbie” continues to shatter records nearly a month after the Malibu icon first graced the big screen.

The Greta Gerwig comedy has earned $1.18 billion at the worldwide box office and now ranks as the second highest-grossing release in the history of Warner Bros.

Internationally, the film earned $45.1 million from 75 markets to bring its foreign gross to a sizzling $657.6 million.

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling star in the movie, which has become the top earning movie from a female filmmaker, passing “Frozen II,” which was co-directed by Jennifer Lee.Elsewhere, “The Meg 2: The Trench” earned $43.7 million from 75 overseas territories, taking the sequel’s international total to $202.8 million.

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produced the film about a prehistoric shark who meets its match in Jason Statham (when will these primordial creatures learn that you can’t lay a dorsal fin on the Transporter).Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” continues to impress at the global box office,…

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