It's a Barbie World!
America Ferrera, director Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie pose for photos during the pink carpet event for the movie"Barbie" in Seoul, South Korea, July 2, 2023. Photo: APis set to sail past US$1bil in global ticket sales, breaking a record for female directors that was previously held by Patty Jenkins, who helmed, which Gerwig directed and co-wrote, added another US$53mil from 4,178 North American locations this weekend and US$74mil internationally, bringing its global total to US$1.
The Margot Robbie-led and produced film has been comfortably seated in first place for three weeks and it’s hardly finished yet. It crossed US$400mil domestic and US$500mil internationally faster than any other movie at the studio, including the Harry Potter films. "As distribution chiefs, we’re not often rendered speechless by a film’s performance, but Barbillion has blown even our most optimistic predictions out of the water,” said Jeff Goldstein and Andrew Cripps, who oversee domestic and international distribution for the studio, in a joint statement.
In modern box office history, just 53 movies have made over US$1bil, not accounting for inflation, andThree movies that were co-directed by women are still ahead of
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