She broke the opening weekend record for a female director.
. “We thought it would be $75 million for the opening weekend. Nobody saw $155 million coming. This doll has long legs.”And if you were following the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon — the highly anticipated matchup between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” with both opening on the same weekend — the doll movie blew the bomb movie out of the water.
Still, “Oppenheimer,” a three-hour historical film about the physicist who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb, surpassed predictions with a big opening take of $82.4 million.. And it’s the biggest weekend box office, period, since the pandemic began in 2020.
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