Margot Robbie in Warner Bros. Pictures’ Barbie (Warner Bros. photo)
August 13, 2023
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Barbie added another $33.7 million in projected North American ticket sales through Aug. 13, to up its domestic tally past $526 million. The Greta Gerwig-directed summer blockbuster is now just $48 million behind current 2023 theatrical champ, Universal Pictures/Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie with more than $1.35 billion in revenue.
Returning to the No. 2 spot, Universal Pictures’ biopic Oppenheimer sold another $18 million in tickets to up its North American tally past $264 million and $649 million worldwide.
At No. 3 is Paramount Pictures’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which sold $15.7 million worth of tickets in its second weekend of release, upping its North American tally near $73 million after 12 days.
Warner’s other much-hyped sequel Meg 2: The Trench continued its underwhelming performance (in relation to the original movie), adding $12.3 million in projected revenue to up its North American tally to $53 million after two weekends.
Meanwhile, Universal’s debut of period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter tanked, generating just $6.5 million in estimated weekend revenue. The $45-million budgeted movie faces a stiff challenge make back its production costs.
While the movie debut wasn’t good, it was enough to top Disney’s Haunted Mansion at $5.6 million; A24’s Talk to Me with $5.1 million; Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom ($4.8 million, and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One at $4.7 million.