Smart move. By that point WB will be getting less and less of the cinema tickets gross. They're screwing over cinemas, but for WB it's a decision that makes financial sense. The final gross number isn't as important for WB as it is for box office/Barbie fans.

Greta Gerwig will not come back to WB if they screw her for sure. Neither would Robbie. I am skeptical this will go as planned. This movie is not just making money but is doing significant grosses. Next 2 weeks holds will be robust with Cinema Day and Labor day coming up.

Does "digital" mean Max or just itunes? Cause I don't think a $20 rental on itunes really affects the box office all that much. It's for people who weren't going to come out to the theater anyway. Going on Max will end the box office run way too early though. That would be the dumbest thing WB has done since ... well everything they were doing before Barbie opened.

Sure they will. Robbie is already up to receive $50m in remuneration from just one movie. She isn't going to refuse that for a second movie because Warner Bros. made it earn $640m instead of $675m.

The masses are showing up because it's an escapist fantasy featuring two hot leads with a huge brand name, not because of a blink-and-you-miss-it joke in the movie, don't be dense.

Biggest Films of All Time Never #1

1 Sing $270,395,425
2 Oppenheimer $270,024,705

Just $370,720 to go and Oppenheimer is the biggest film of all time never to hit #1. To do $300M+ in the face of Barbie doing $600M+ is just mind boggling even if they went for different demos.

This year might end up at $8.5-9B. Possibly $1B (10%+) of the total yearly gross came from ONE weekend of films!?

Oppenheimer will hit the $300M boxoffice mark. I’ve seen it 5x in theaters.

What I meant - and what you didn't grasp - was that if there was something taboo in the movie or something frowned upon by today's social narrative, that would cause the masses not to show up. But they are showing up regardless. So it can't be an issue. Things that aren't issues are accepted by the masses. Must be what they want to see.

OR -- the people that usually get triggered by such things are easily distracted by flamboyant production design that they didn't even notice it. It's probably that, actually. Wokesters aren't very clever.

Oppenheimer has topped the never #1 list!!!

It's on its way to $325M+ which is going to be a hard record to beat.

1 Oppenheimer $272,587,925
2 Sing $270,395,425
3 My Big Fat Greek Wedding $241,438,208
4 Alvin & the Chipmunks 2 $219,614,612
5 Alvin & the Chipmunks $217,326,974

That's pretty huge. And has plenty to go.

They should really do another chipmunks movie, even the third adjusts to 175 and the 4th still had good international numbers. I think a 5th would increase during the holiday season. The last one got killed by TFA

Funnily - my boys were just re-watching the 4th one tonight. My oldest who wants to watch John Wick and such remarked "these Chipmunks films are great, I like all of them" which surprised me.

So I think you have a point. There's money on the table. The Chipmunks are timeless (I grew up with the 80s cartoon) and timing could be just right. Perhaps a Christmas theme?

It's shocking how long The Chipmunks have managed to stay relevant.

They started as musical song characters and were so successful they reached #1 on the Billboard chart in the 1958. They have 2 #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and have won five Grammy Awards, with four Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 and three certified platinum albums.

The Chipmunk Song is also one of the best-selling singles of all time at 5 million physical copies sold.

Then they had a comic book in 1959. A TV show launched in 1961.

Revived TV show in the 1980s.

Theatrical movies in 2007 - 2015.

65 years of history and they could relaunch a new movie and it would probably do well. Those squeaky voices seem timeless to kids across generations.

The Christmas song is a favorite for most, and I liked the cartoon and the 80s movie

Scoob probably would have done very well in theaters. And I’m sure a chi Flinstones or jetsons would work well. Though a live action jetsons could do very well too. Those are the shows everyone watched pre streaming era as a kid

I want a Foofur live action movie!
*pout*

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foofur

I’m probably the only one who remembers Foofur. Lol.

LOL. Blue Beetle already out of #1.

1 Barbie $2,550,000 -47% $569,363,193
2 Blue Beetle $2,165,000 $27,195,225

- Meg 2: The Trench $665,000 -53% $67,258,550

Monday #'s

Barbie $1,450,000 -45% $594,255,387
Gran Turismo $1,130,000 $18,540,552
Coraline $1,000,000
Oppenheimer $899,660 -36% $300,144,670
Blue Beetle $870,000 -60% $46,571,809
Meg 2: The Trench $335,000 -49% $74,470,142

Could this be Barbie's last week with $1M+ dailies? If it makes it to Sunday that's 45 days.

Oppenheimer goes under $1M for the first time but passes $300M! Made it to 38 days.

Also Coraline made $1M? I didn't see it on Mojo or the Numbers but it made $5M just on Sat and Sun for its re-release. That's great for a movie that made $75,286,229 domestic in 2009. Now it would be at $81.3M.

Schools going back yesterday resulted in Barbie dipping below $1M for the first time.

1 The Equalizer 3 $3,410,000 $46,225,433
2 Barbie $901,169 -51% $613,232,678

Gran Turismo $655,000 -62% $31,519,211
Blue Beetle $572,109 -55% $59,303,167

Equalizer 2 did $5,002,719 1st Tuesday in late July 2018 and Equalizer 1 $3,631,659 1st Tuesday in September 2014 so think $3.4M is solid considering it's no longer summer season. The Tuesday # isn't that off from Equalizer 2's Monday of $3,688,910.

We are past labor day and so its all about weekend holds at this point for Barbenheimer. Barbie will benefit from Imax release in 2 weeks. Should increase that weekend for sure. I am still hopeful its beating Jurassic World and finishing in Top 10.

Time for this list to show itself again...

CONSECUTIVE DAYS OVER $1 MILLION:

101 Titanic

80 Avatar
80 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

75 Top Gun: Maverick

61 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

59 Finding Nemo
54 Back to the Future
54 Ghostbusters
54 Jurassic Park
54 Shrek 2
52 Aladdin (2019)
52 Avatar: The Way of Water
52 The Avengers
52 Black Panther
52 The Hangover
52 Incredibles 2
52 Shrek
52 Toy Story 4

48 The Passion of the Christ
47 Coco
47 Frozen
47 Moana
47 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
47 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
46 Barbie
46 Batman
45 Avengers: Infinity War
45 The Blind Side
45 Bridesmaids
45 Cars
45 Frozen II
45 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
45 Inside Out
45 Jurassic World
45 The Sixth Sense
45 Spider-Man
45 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
45 Toy Story 3
45 Up
45 Wonder Woman
43 Independence Day
41 Despicable Me
41 Finding Dory
41 The Secret Life of Pets
41 Spider-Man: Far from Home
41 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
40 The Dark Knight
40 Despicable Me 2
40 Despicable Me 3
40 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
40 The Jungle Book (2016)
40 The Little Mermaid (2023)
40 Minions: The Rise of Gru
40 Spider-Man 2
40 The Super Mario Bros. Movie

39 A Star Is Born (2018)
39 Iron Man
39 Joker
38 American Sniper
38 Apollo 13
38 Avengers: Endgame
38 Beauty and the Beast (2017)
38 Bruce Almighty
38 The Dark Knight Rises
38 Deadpool
38 Elemental
38 Elvis
38 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
38 Inception
38 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
38 Knocked Up
38 Kung Fu Panda
38 The Lion King (2019)
38 Maleficent
38 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
38 The Proposal
38 Ratatouille
38 Saving Private Ryan
38 Shrek the Third
38 Spider-Man: Homecoming
38 Spider-Man: No Way Home
38 Wedding Crashers
38 Zootopia

Barbie flames out before hitting 50 days? Bomb! What went wrong?

2019 Aladdin is weirdly high on the list

Go woke, go broke! Just terrible

I was thinking about how timing matters a lot for this list. A movie that opens big right before schools let out for summer is going to have an advantage vs a movie that opens essentially any other time, including mid-summer (i.e. Barbie, Dark Knight). Spider-man: No Way Home grossed, what $800m+ and ‘only’ has 38 days?

edit: accidental double post