Barbie, the highest-grossing film in cinemas in 2023, will be available from December 15 and broadcast to audiences around the world, including Romania.

Despite a cast led by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, respectively, the feature film from American director Greta Gerwig exceeded all analysts’ expectations for the box office, becoming not only the highest-grossing film of 2023, but of the history of Warner Bros. .

Being a Warner Bros. film, it will be available for streaming on the Warner Bros. conglomerate’s platform. Discovery, HBO Max, which launched in Romania last March.

At the time of publication, earnings were $1,441,809,423. Chin surpassed the success of other Warner Bros. feature films. AS The Dark Knight returns, Aquaman, Jokermovies Harry Potter or a trilogy the hobbit.

The success of Greta Gerwig’s film is that it was able to stay at the top of the North American box office for no less than 10 weeks in a row, more than Avatar: The Way of Water directed by James Cameron, the highest-grossing feature film of 2022.

A roaring success Chin he “pulled himself up” and Oppenheimer, a film by British-American director Christopher Nolan, which was released simultaneously with the Warner Bros. feature. as part of what would become the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon.

While Nolan is not a new box office success, it has grossed over $950 million Oppenheimer in theaters is much higher than analysts predicted before its release, given that it is a historical film with a less popular subject among the general public.

The movie “Barbie” broke record after record for Warner Bros. Here are the most impressive:

• the highest-grossing film of the year in the United States and worldwide

Chin September 2 became the highest-grossing film in worldwide cinemas in 2023, surpassing Super Mario Bros reaching the $1.36 billion mark in ticket sales. In the US domestic market, it became the highest-grossing “blockbuster” of the year since August 24.

“This is an iconic moment for Barbie, and no one but Greta Gerwig could have brought this symbol, which transcends generations and her world, to life in such a funny, touching and interesting way,” Jeff Goldstein said at the time. President Warner. Bros. for domestic distribution.

• the most successful film ever released by Warner Bros. at the international level

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2”) was the highest-grossing Warner Bros. film for 12 years. globally Chin broke that record on August 28 when it crossed $1.4 billion worldwide.

• the most successful feature film in the history of Warner Bros. in the domestic market of North America

The record in question belonged to the film The Dark Knight from 2008 ($535.9 million earned) to August 16 of this year. At the time of publication of the article Chin it grossed $636,209,053 at the North American box office.

• the highest-grossing first weekend and week of 2023

Chin had a domestic gross profit of $155 million, nearly double that of Oppenheimer, on the first weekend, which began on July 21. The Gerwig-directed film also set the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend of the year both domestically ($258.4 million) and overseas ($578.7 million).

Both records were previously held Super Mario Brothers movies.

• the highest-grossing domestic debut for a film not part of the Warner Bros. franchise.

In this chapter Chin surpassed the film IT is based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, which grossed $123 million in North American theaters after its 2017 release.

Classifying movies as part of a franchise or not might seem like an American idiosyncrasy until you consider that half of the highest-grossing debuts of all time are feature films from Disney’s Marvel franchise, a rival to the DC universe produced by Warner Bros.

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“Barbie was a huge success for its actors and director

• debut week and highest grossing film worldwide for Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling

Gross earnings $578.7 million Chin in its debut week, they significantly eclipsed director Greta Gerwig’s previous record of $45 million for a feature film.Little woman since 2019.

But Chin set records in this section for two of Hollywood’s most popular actors in recent years: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. In the case of Margot Robbie, the previous record was $362.9 million earned in 2016 movie Suicide Squadwhereas for Gosling it was about Blade Runner 2049 In 2017, ticket sales reached US$114.5 million in its first week of release.

But in the end Chin it also became the highest-grossing film of his career 3. For Gerwig and Robbie, the previous biggest hits were Little Women ($216 million) and Suicide Squad ($749 million), respectively, while Gosling’s feature musical comedy La-la-land since 2016 (443 million).

• the first film directed solely by a woman to cross the $1 billion mark

Chin also surpassed the previously held record Captain Marvel (2019) for the film directed by a woman with the best opening week in theaters, though the difference wasn’t that big given that Marvel’s feature franchise grossed $570.7 million and Warner Bros. 578.7 million

This is more impressive Chin became the first film with only a female director to cross the $1 billion mark at the box office. This “only” matters because other films with co-directors, one of whom is a woman, have exceeded this threshold in terms of ticket sales (eg Frozen II).

Only 28 directors in the history of Hollywood managed to achieve this independently before Chin they were all men.

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