"Barbie" Becomes Highest Grossing Movie in Warner Bros. History

On Monday, Barbie officially became the highest-grossing movie in Warner Bros. history, earning more than $1.34 billion at the global box office.

The movie will overtake “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” as the highest-grossing global release in the history of Warner Bros. Over the weekend, it earned $18.2 million from 12,852 screens in 75 international territories, to push its worldwide gross to a smashing $1.34 billion.

And it’s not done breaking records. With its exact earnings at $1,340,301,000, the movie needs just under $20 million to surpass “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” to become the top movie of the year at the global box office.

Moreover, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is barreling towards the $800 million mark at the worldwide box office after earning $29.1 million from 7,555 screens in 82 territories. That’s giving the biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb a massive $777 million worldwide gross — an astonishing figure for a somber R-rated drama.

Sony’s “Gran Turismo” added $11 million to bring its global haul to just over $53 million. The racing adventure claimed the top spot at the domestic box office, earning $17.3 million.

“Meg 2: The Trench” grossed $15.2 million from 16,224 screens across 77 offshore markets. That brings its global gross to $352.5 million.

Unlike other Hollywood films, which have struggled in China lately, “Meg 2” has gotten a big boost from the market, earning $112.9 million.

Warner Bros. released the movie about a primordial shark, as it did with “Blue Beetle,” an adaptation of a DC comic. The superhero adventure earned an estimated $10 million for the weekend in 71 offshore markets and on 10,421 screens.

Globally, the DC movie has earned $81.8 million, a disappointing result for a movie that cost more than $100 million to produce.