The summer’s box office may have been a thrilling one for exhibitors.
However, the most recent weekend was one of the most underwhelming of a red-hot two-month period, but on the flip side of that, the weekend also provided a surprising bout of theatrics as two films claimed victory at the box office table, with Gran Turismo crossing the finish line ahead of Barbie, something that Warner Bros.
took something of an issue with.
Barbie grossed $15.1 million, $2 million fewer than the predicted $17.1 million that Warners had been anticipating.
However, that could still have been enough to take the top spot, were it not for the fact that Sony, the studio behind Gran Turismo — which is based on a true story — included 9 days of previews in the box office total, attempting to claim the film had an 11-day opening weekend.
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