But it can still be overtaken by 'Barbie'.
The Big Picture This is going to be a wildly unpredictable weekend at the domestic box office, with Sunday’s National Cinema Day poised to draw huge crowds to theaters across the country thanks to discounted ticket prices. It’s difficult to gauge which direction incentivized audiences could be drawn to.
While the weekend standings will become clearer tomorrow, Friday’s numbers are in, with a juiced up Gran Turismo leading the pack. Why juiced up? Because Sony is including the $5.3 million that the video game adaptation made in sneak previews conducted not only on Thursday, as is the norm, but across the past two weeks. The film’s Friday tally stands at around $8.5 million.
The film is being closely tailed by the blockbuster Barbie, which added $4 million to the bank on its sixth Friday. Depending on how it performs on National Cinema Day, the movie could overtake Gran Turismo and take the top spot this weekend. Barbie dropped to second place for the first time in its month-long run last weekend, while the debutante superhero movie Blue Beetle took the top spot. The satirical comedy also shot past The Super Mario Bros.
Oppenheimer Is Continuing to Register Strong Holds Blue Beetle, which opened last weekend with a soft $25 million debut, is eyeing a 58% second weekend drop. The movie added $2.6 million on Friday, taking its running domestic total to $36 million, and is expected to finish with around $10 million over the weekend. While this is nothing to write home about, it’s still a bigger second weekend haul than that of Shazam! Fury of the Gods earlier this year. That being said, Warner Bros.
Oppenheimer will take the fourth spot, after bringing in another $2.2 million on its sixth Friday. Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has now passed the lifetime domestic haul of his 2010 hit Inception. By Sunday, it is expected to hit $298 million domestically, which means that it will pass the $300 million mark either on Monday or Tuesday. Globally, the movie is passing the $750 million mark this weekend.
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