The box office got a bit of a makeover this weekend, trading Barbie pink for a Blue Beetle.
Granted, the DC superhero flick didn’t exactly set the box office on fire. Blue Beetle earned $25.4 million this weekend in North America, according to Box Office Mojo. That was—stop me if you’ve heard this before—a bit under the $30 million or so that prognosticators thought the azure arthropod would collect. Still, it marks the first time in five weeks that Barbie wasn’t dancing at the top of the charts, so all due props.
Not that Barbie fell far. Greta Gerwig’s box-office phenom only slipped to second, earning another $21.5 million this weekend stateside. That pushes Barbie’s gross domestic tally (not that Barbie would have anything to do with something gross) to $567.3 million. That’s just $7 million behind the year’s biggest movie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie ( $574.3 million). So 2023 will almost certainly have a new No. 1 film when we reconvene for Movie Monday next week.
Barbie and Oppenheimer have been parading around the box office in near lockstep since their debut exactly one month ago, and this weekend is no exception. Christopher Nolan’s historic drama finished third, collecting another $10.6 million. That ratchets up its North American haul to $285.2 million. Funny: The movie may feature a massive bomb, but the film itself has been anything but.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem finished fourth with $8.4 million. Meanwhile, Strays looks like a bit of a box-office dog. The R-rated comedy chewed up just $8.3 million to finish fifth in show. It’s the latest raunchy laugher to open to mostly disinterested snickers this summer.
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