Barbie is everything: a doctor, a lawyer, a president, an astronaut, and now a box office sensation.
In its third weekend at the box office, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has become one of the fastest movies ever to hit $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and only the second movie to hit that milestone so far this year, alongside “The Super Mario Bros.
Movie.” Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Barbie” will cross the billion-dollar threshold today while easily holding the weekend box office top spot against fresh competition from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” and “Meg 2: The Trench.”Domestically, “Barbie” added another $53 million this weekend for a running total of $459 million from North American ticket sales.
That’s a drop of just 43 percent from its second weekend, which in turn dropped just 42.6 percent from the opening weekend.
It won’t be long before Margot Robbie’s anthropomorphized manifestation of the world’s…
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