Both 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' held tough at the domestic box office in their second weekends.
's "Oppenheimer," meanwhile, tallied another $46.7 million over the weekend. Its domestic gross now stands at $175 million. Globally, it's generated $405 million.
"For a domestic summer marketplace desperately in need of a box office boost, the July 21 simultaneous theatrical debuts of 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' set off a chain reaction of overall box office that has infused the all-important season with nearly three quarters of a billion dollars of bonus cash," Dergarabedian said.
Heading into "Barbenheimer's" first weekend, the summer box office, which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day, was down around 7% compared to 2022. Two weeks later, it's up 9%, according to data from Comscore. Similarly, the confluence of these two films boosted the overall domestic box office compared with last year's haul to this point. Prior to "Barbenheimer," ticket sales were up 12%. Two weeks later, they were up 20%.
The overall domestic box office still lags behind prepandemic levels by around 16%, however. And prospects for catching up are dwindling as studios have started toDisclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal and CNBC. NBCUniversal is the distributor of "Oppenheimer."
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