It was, without exaggeration, one of the biggest weekends in the history of the box office.
The epic showdown between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” was everything moviegoers and the industry alike wanted to see, with both films delivering, collectively, the biggest weekend we’ve seen since “Avengers: Endgame” debuted in 2019.
“Barbie” ran away with the win, taking in $162 million domestically, while “Oppenheimer” debuted to $82 million.
In both cases, we’re looking at better-than-expected results.
All the while, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Insidious: The Red Door,” and “Elemental” held relatively well, all things considered.
There was, however, one movie left out in the cold, with Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” falling off a cliff amidst all the Barbenheimer chaos.Despite topping the charts last week with $235 million globally across its first five days of release, the latest “Mission: Impossible” film fell all the way to fourth…
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