“Barbie” will soon join the list of films that have grossed more than one billion dollars at the box office. The film by director Greta Gerwig (40) has now taken the next hurdle on the way there.
In North America alone, “Barbie” grossed more than 400 million US dollars after exactly two weeks, reports the industry magazine “The Hollywood Reporter”. Never before has a Warner Bros. film achieved such a box office result so quickly.
If you now add the international earnings, “Barbie” is now more than 900 million US dollars. The trade journal predicts that production will break the billion mark by Sunday or early next week at the latest.
Barbie actress Margot Robbie (33), who is also involved as a producer, had predicted from the start that the film would gross $1 billion, although she wasn’t entirely sure. The Australian actress, who is supported by Ryan Gosling (42) in the film as Ken, revealed this in an interview with “Collider” in July.
In a meeting, she emphasized that she believes film studios would be very successful if they were brave enough to combine “a great idea with a visionary director”. As an example, she named Steven Spielberg (76) and his Dino Mega success “Jurassic Park”. “And now you have Barbie and Greta Gerwig,” Robbie said. “And I think I told them [the film] was going to make a billion dollars, which I may have exaggerated, but we had to make a film, okay?”
