Sound is only on Day 20(!) and made $125M.

So if Barbie gets a 3.7 multiplier it can get to $600m. Have to see 2nd weekend if that is possible. Opppenheimer also needs similar multiplier to get to $300m.

Will Barbie become the number one movie of the year? Will the go woke go broke meme final meet it’s biter demise?

It does feature a trans woman as Doctor Barbie, but I guess most people haven't picked up on that.

After watching the movie, that’s actually one of the least political parts of the movie.

Unfortunately the mere presence of a trans person is enough to be “woke” these days.

What's also remarkable is how on a weekend when the double-feature of gargantuan proportions opens, most well-reviewed and well-liked movies show solid drops of 52% (Spider-Verse), 37% (Elemental), and even 67% (Rise of the Beasts).

What does Sound of Freedom do? -27%, lol. It's as if no new releases came out and it expanded by 2,000 theatres. It just defies reality. It is appealing to a chunk of the population where the usual Hollywood fluff doesn't seem to have much of an impact. It really highlights how many different potential movie-going circles there are to be supplied.

That would be fantastic, no? Don’t most movies drop 55-60% Sunday to Monday this time of year?

Clearly one of the strangest but coolest weekends at the cinema ever. It's hard to know where we go from here.

Younger audience jumped on Minions 2. Got people to pair up and watch a Barbie and WW2 biopic.

Migration + The Color Purple a must see combo? Or A Quiet Place 3 + KFP4?

Will be very interesting to see what Hollywood tries pushing post Barbenheimer. Know it will be super cringe but will have all the execs and film teams talking.

It's totally about quality, or more accurately, kind of an ideological thing? Like, people were all "Let's do a double feature ha ha ha wait let's actually do this." Both represent something the other lacks; Barbie is an unapologetically female-driven thing, but still an IP and ultimately an advertisement. Oppenheimer is very vintage Film Bro, but it's an adult drama by the man fighting to keep adult dramas commercial.

Meanwhile, Morbius is yet another capeshit, sort of off-brand capeshit, and that this superhero is a vampire doesn't exactly mitigate it. Plus, Leto is, at best an obnoxious blowhard, and at worst, a toxic sex pest. And as far as the target audience was concerned, the worst Joker.

(As for Minions, I just think that was kind of an already bullet proof franchise with a visible movement, maybe even a loud minority. I think someone said it was largely people who enjoyed the movies when they were younger who wanted to relive pre-pandemic days and had an excuse to be performative about it.)

Nolan needs to do OPPENHEIMER meets TOP GUN with a serious, big budget take on PEARL HARBOR, for December, 2025.

Or another biopic, General Marshall. He was the top US general in the war and his Marshall Plan saved continental Europe from literal starvation.

After watching the movie, that’s actually one of the least political parts of the movie.

Charlie is saying 27/13 and Empire updated to 27.5/13.5. Either ways these numbers are great but after seeing 30m, 27m feels "normal".