What Are the Highest-Grossing Movies Directed by Women?
The Big Picture There’s just no other way to say it: the box office run of Barbie has Kenergy to spare. As of this writing, Barbie has amassed $795.7 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing non-Transformers toy movie in history at the global box office. Even more insane is how it stacks up among all titles released by Warner Bros. in the studio’s 100-year history. Barbie, after just ten days of release, is already the sixth highest-grossing Warner Bros.
Projects like What Women Want demonstrated that features from women directors could make big bucks at the box office, however, Hollywood and other major film industries were still dragging their feet on regularly hiring women filmmakers. Even genres typically thought of as skewing towards women moviegoers, like romantic comedies, opted to hire dudes like Robert Luketic instead of other interesting filmmakers who happened to be women.
Unfortunately, the gig didn’t translate into Thomas getting a huge increase in her mainstream filmmaking presence nor did it skyrocket the presence of women filmmakers in general. Still, four years later, another woman director would hit a massive box office milestone: Jennifer Lee. She would secure her place in box office history by being one of two helmers on the 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios feature Frozen , which made her the first lady to helm one of Disney Animation’s titles.
'Barbie' Has Proven Once Again That Women Can Crush at the Box Office If there’s any box office statistic that reinforces the struggles women directors have in securing any mainstream filmmaking gigs, it’s one associated with the 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time. Directed by Ava DuVernay, this title narrowly cracked $100 million in its domestic run, becoming the first instance in history of a feature from a Black woman filmmaker exceeding that box office threshold.
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