'Barbenheimer' triggered the fourth-biggest box office weekend in history.
, hundreds of thousands of ticket buyers decided to attend same-day viewings of both movies, essentially turning what was a box office battle into a remarkable double feature day for moviegoers.
“This is an unequivocally great weekend for moviegoing,” David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, told. “‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are complementing each other at the box office, not taking audience from each other.” The cultural craze known as “Barbenheimer” created the fourth-biggest overall weekend in history, the entertainment news website reported.
It is also the largest opening since Dec. 17, 2021, when “Spider-Man: No Way Home” collected $281.8 million, according to . It is also the largest showing since before the pandemic, when “Avengers: End Game” led with $375 million on the weekend of April 26, 2019.
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