Boffo Barbenheimer Box Office, Plus Chris Nolan & Bond, Aquaman 2 Troubles, and More
/Film Weekly
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the July 25, 2023 episode of The /Film Show, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the biggest movie weekend in years, and touch on a bunch of other film and TV news.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
- Barbie And Oppenheimer Make History With Explosive Opening Weekend Box Office Numbers
- Barbie Director Greta Gerwig Breaks Records With Ken-Ormous $162 Million Opening Weekend
- Barbie's Blockbuster Opening Is Even More Impressive The Longer You Look At It
- Oppenheimer Explodes Expectations With Astonishing $82 Million Opening Weekend
- 5 Reasons Barbenheimer Was A Bombshell Box Office Success
- The Biggest Casualty Of Barbenheimer Was Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
- Indiana Jones 5 Could Be Disney's Biggest Box Office Disaster Since John Carter
“We’re going to take a quick break, and we’ll be right back”
- Christopher Nolan Certainly Seems Up For Directing A Bond Movie
- Aquaman 2 Undergoing Extensive Reshoots And Major Changes Ahead Of Looming Release Date
- Dune 2 And Other Films May Move To 2024 As Studios Refuse Requests From Striking Writers And Actors
- Netflix Is Getting Rid Of The Cheapest Ad-Free Subscription In The US And UK, But Why?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the slash film show. Today is Tuesday, July 25th, |
| 0:03.8 | 2023 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the biggest |
| 0:08.1 | movie weekend in years and also touch on a bunch of other film and TV news. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey hey everyone, how's it going? Ryan, is that a fair characterization, the biggest movie weekend in years? |
| 0:25.0 | Easily, without exaggeration. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, so Barbie and Oppenheimer both debuted and we talked about both of those movies on last week's show. |
| 0:35.6 | We did a big spoiler episode on Friday, so go back and listen to that if you've seen these movies |
| 0:40.3 | and want to know, you know, sort of our takes on them I guess but let's get into the |
| 0:44.7 | box office performance because as we've mentioned it's it's been kind of astounding. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah so in short, you know, this was the biggest box office weekend since Avengers |
| 0:58.3 | End game in 2019. And some history was made here in a lot of ways. |
| 1:06.8 | So Barbie became so much bigger |
| 1:11.4 | than anyone like could have possibly imagine. |
| 1:14.4 | I think the box office tracking for this I think two weeks ago was 80 million and that |
| 1:18.2 | that would have been let's be very clear. |
| 1:20.3 | 80 million would have been awesome. |
| 1:22.0 | Like it would have been like oh my god the Barbie the very weird Barbie movie opened to 80 million dollars. It opened to a hundred and sixty two million dollars and on Sunday by the way estimates were 155, so it just kept going up. |
| 1:35.6 | So, you know, that's domestic. And so I think they already counted the Monday numbers here on the numbers but we're looking at |
| 1:45.2 | the global total right now at 382.3 million dollars already for Barbie which is incredible. |
| 1:51.3 | Wow. So like I was sort of thinking that movie might do 400 million in total. You know there was a part of me which again wouldn't have been bad like it would have been all right you know that's that's whatever but like yeah so yeah I mean that's in that you know it's the by definitely like unquestionably the biggest opening weekend ever for a movie directed by a woman. Congratulations to Greta Gerwig. It looked like Captain Marvel was going to kind of hold that because Captain Marvel was co-directed by Anna Bowden, but Greta Gerwig now stands alone. |
| 2:23.0 | However, as you mentioned, this was a huge weekend. |
| 2:26.5 | People look about this on the calendar all year because |
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