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'Barbie' keeps top spot at N.American box office for 4th straight week

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Barbie is now a billionaire at the global box ofice. Handout" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/overseas/08/07/barbie.jpg"/><figcaption>Barbie is now a billionaire at the global box ofice.<em> Handout</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES, United States - Warner Bros.&#x27; hit &quot;Barbie&quot; dominated North American box offices for a fourth consecutive week, industry estimates showed Sunday, as director Greta Gerwig continues to bust industry records.</p><p>Gerwig, who with &quot;Barbie&quot; had already become the first solo woman director to rake in more than $1 billion at the global box office, this week became the highest-grossing woman director of all time in the domestic market, according to The Hollywood Reporter.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/08/07/23/barbie-races-past-1-billion-at-the-box-office">&#x27;Barbie&#x27; races past $1 billion at the box office, first for solo woman director</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/07/21/23/movie-review-are-you-ready-for-feminist-barbie">Movie review: Are you ready for Feminist Barbie?</a></li></ul><p>Industry watcher Exhibitor Relations estimated this weekend&#x27;s haul for &quot;Barbie&quot; at $33.7 million, bringing its domestic total to $526 million.</p><p>Gerwig is currently vying against Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the animated sequel to Disney&#x27;s &quot;Frozen&quot; with Chris Buck, to be the highest-grossing woman director of all time at the global box office.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K14OOqwdWCA?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>Starring Margot Robbie as the iconic doll and Ryan Gosling as boyfriend Ken, &quot;Barbie&quot; has earned a whopping $1.2 billion worldwide.</p><p>Universal&#x27;s &quot;Oppenheimer,&quot; a historical drama about the development of the atomic bomb, regained its second-place position, with the other half of the &quot;Barbenheimer&quot; phenomenon taking in an estimated $18.8 million over the weekend.</p><p>Last week &quot;Oppenheimer&quot; had been beaten by the Warner Bros. monster flick &quot;Meg 2: The Trench,&quot; which fell to fourth this week with an estimated $12.7 million.</p><p>The success of &quot;Barbie&quot; and &quot;Oppenheimer&quot; has come amid a backdrop of turmoil in Hollywood, as a historic double-strike by writers and actors has brought productions to a halt.</p><p>Both unions are renegotiating their collective contracts with studios to demand better pay, guarantees to limit the use of artificial intelligence and other working conditions.</p><p>While on strike, union rules prohibit actors from promoting their films, imperiling the marketing events for upcoming releases as talks show no end in sight.</p><p>Third place this weekend went to Paramount&#x27;s animated &quot;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,&quot; up one spot from the week before with $15.8 million.</p><p>In its debut weekend, Universal&#x27;s vampire film &quot;The Last Voyage of the Demeter&quot; took a frighteningly distant fifth place, at just $6.5 million.</p><p>Based on Bram Stoker&#x27;s classic &quot;Dracula,&quot; the period film takes place on a doomed ship transporting the blood-sucker from his Eastern Europe home to England.</p><p>&quot;This is a weak opening for a horror film based on a chapter of the legendary Dracula story,&quot; said analyst David A. Gross.</p><p>With poor reviews and an estimated budget of $45 million, the film is a &quot;difficult sell under any conditions,&quot; he added.</p><div><strong>Rounding out the top 10 were:</strong></div><p>&quot;Haunted Mansion&quot; ($5.6 million)</p><p>&quot;Talk to Me&quot; ($5.1 million)</p><p>&quot;Sound of Freedom&quot; ($4.8 million)</p><p>&quot;Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One&quot; ($4.7 million)</p><p>&quot;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny&quot; ($900,000)</p><div><strong>des/nro</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2744500" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Warner Bros.' hit 'Barbie' dominated North American box offices for a fourth consecutive week, industry estimates showed Sunday.