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Warner Bros’ Barbie ain’t missin’ no steps as the Greta Gerwig-directed title is clicking past the $600M mark at the domestic box office in her 43rd day of release.
Note it took Top Gun: Maverick 47 days to cross that threshold, that Tom Cruise movie ending its stateside run at $718.7M. Barbie is currently pacing 2% ahead of Top Gun 2‘s running total at the same point in time. It took Avatar the Way of Water 40 days (final total $684M) to cross the six-century mark at the domestic box office.
So many records broken by Mattel’s top doll: Top grossing movie of the year stateside, Warner Bros. highest grossing movie ever at $1.34B ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling’s highest grossing movies ever, top grossing live-action title directed by a female director worldwide, and so on, and so on.
Barbie will get a week’s run in Imax on Sept. 22 which should juice grosses more before Taylor Swift: Eras Tour takes over the autumn box office in mid-October. Lookout: Are Barbie and Taylor Swift double features getting booked yet? Get on that Warners and Adam Aron.
Barbie is the 14th title at the domestic box office to surpass $600M after Star Wars: Force Awakens ($936.6M), Avengers: Endgame ($858.3M), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.1M), Avatar ($785.2M), Top Gun: Maverick ($718.7M), Black Panther ($700.4M), Avatar the Way of Water ($684M), Avengers: Infinity War ($678.8M), Titanic ($674.2M), Jurassic World ($653.4M), Avengers ($623.3M), Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($620.1M), and Incredibles 2 ($608.5M).