$23.5m+ Wednesday is bonkers.

"People seeing the other one this weekend" effect?

7 straight days of $22m+

Barbie has SMB's $92.3m 2nd wknd gross ON IT'S SITE!!!

Officially $23.0M Wed. $237M total after 6 days and will break $250M in 7 (only 11 movies have done it faster).

#24 on the all time list but mostly because so many movies open on Wed.

For non-opening week, non-holiday/late Dec Wednesdays, it's #2 behind only Endgame's $25,251,991.

Thursday should be interesting. Endgame was at $21,542,852. Barbie needs a drop of 6.3% or better to beat it.

Surprisingly may be the most impressive day for Barbie. That probably means more tickets sold on Wednesday than Tuesday? Wow.

I'm kinda thinking 2nd weekend may not be as crazy as its weekdays but it doesn't really show any signs of slowing down so...

Bring in the mother of god

WW Barbie has almost grossed 4x its budget LOL

Wed (from ER):

1. BARBIE ($23M) $237.1M
2. OPPENHEIMER ($10M) $117.2M
3. SOUND OF FREEDOM ($3M) -36.5% $134M
4. M:I7 ($2M) -57.8% $126.2M
5. ELEMENTAL ($1M) -28.1% $140.5M

Great holds from Elemental and Sound. Elemental is now at a 4.75X multiplier. Let's see the impact it has from HM and TMNT. If it holds well could make a run for $170M.

Sounds looks to clear $150M by Sunday. Will need a crazy good hold for any chance to keep $200M but its done so well already won't matter that much.

I keep hoping for good news to report on the MI front but it could slip below $2M on Thursday. This weekend really is make or break for it.

It’s Friday and Saturday increases will probably be low, but it’s doing so well on the weekdays even small Increases will lead to a good hold

It would have been completely different and she may have worked with the film really, Margot is perfect casting, bu I think Schumer could have elevated the weaker elements of the film as it would have been more meta. The film is already funnier with everyone thinking Schumer is as gorgeous as margot

Very early Thurs estimates from Empire (subject to big fluctuations and conservative):

Barbie $20-21M, $257.1-258.1M
Oppenheimer $11.2M $129M

That would put Oppenheimer already past MI7 for the year despite the extra week of release.

20m+ for Barbie and 10m+ all week is just as impressive as its opening weekend.

Damn!

That’d make it 8 straight days above $20m for Barbie and above $10m for Oppenheimer.

Charlie also posted overall BO for past week would be in Top 5. 3 of the weeks are in christmas period(2 weeks of Force Awakens and 2nd week of SW9/OW of Jumanji 2) and Endgame opening week where Endgame with 70%+ overall screen count did 85%+ of week's BO. The fact that these 2 movies have taken it to Top 5 is uber impressive. I wonder when we will see something like this again.

http://twitter.com/meJat32/status/1684571336822362112

Sadly, Empire has updated his # to $9.5m for Thursday so under $10M.

That weekly list is impressive. Especially the fact that the Christmas week in 2009 is STILL in the top 5 14 years later.

Too early to get accurate numbers. I would wait until evening.

That's nothing. Barbie is already past Quantumania for the year despite the extra 5 months of release!

Barbie $528 million worldwide in one week

Mission Impossible is losing 1,000+ theaters this weekend... yeah, this was a bad release date.

Yup! dumb move by the studio

You know... I almost want to so MI7 is more of a disappointment than The Flash domestically (haven't looked at OS numbers yet, probably too early). It's close. Looking at... ~$160/165m? Yes, bad release date, but... not enough of a reason, IMO.

The Flash had a myriad of reasons for it bombing. MI7 had possible goodwill from TGM (or it *should* have), incredible reviews, and ten days in a pretty open market. It should have been able to rack up enough in that time before Barbenheimer hit it to at least reach $200m.

Indiana Jones is in this conversation too, of course. We have a lot of notable bombs this summer.

For me MI takes the cake domestically at least.

We knew from a mile away IJ5 was going to disappoint after the lackluster performance of the last film and time between films. It will be at $163M by tomorrow and looking like $175-180M. Which is not as horrendous as it could have been.

Flash followed Black Adam, Shazam and had the Ezra issue so was a bit of a toss up. It was a disaster but the trendline wasn't going in its favor.

MI possibly missing $160M following TGM is a big shock. Even if no goodwill from TGM it's always way below the MI movies and will be the worst attended of the franchise.

MI didn't have the strongest OW and then far too competition but all around seemed something was botched with its release. Could be at $138M by the end of the weekend and may miss $10M if it can't stabilize.

I’d put Indy as the most disappointing