Friday Miday: Warner Bros.’ Barbie is eyeing $68M-70M today, including last night’s previews, for what’s shaping up to be the best opening of the year with $150M at 4,243 theaters. That would beat the 3-day of Super Mario Bros‘ $146.3M. Some rivals see higher like $165M-$170M but it’s still early and everyone is getting excited. Remember, female skewing movies are very front-loaded (remember a movie called Twilight?).

Universal’s Oppenheimer is certainly not getting scraps: It’s headed for $32M today, including previews, and a $75M 3-day at 3,610 theaters. That’s higher than Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny‘s $60.3M start. Wow.

Do your math, the two titles are fueling $225M alone this weekend.

So far, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning despite shedding Imax, isn’t taking a horrible hit, -54% in weekend 2 with $25M with a $124.2M running total. Friday is looking like $6.6M.

Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom at 3,285 is resilient as well with an amazing $20M, -26%, weekend 3 and running total of $124.4M. Disney’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is fifth with an estimated fourth weekend of $7M, -43% and running cume by Sunday of $159.3M.

UPDATED after Thursday exclusive: Warner Bros has made it official that Barbie has collected the best previews of not only this summer but all of 2023 with $22.3M, which bests Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s $17.5M. It’s a great weekend for the house of Zaslav in the wake of The Flash stumbling last month. All eyes are on the Warner Bros Discovery share price which as of this post is around $13.02 (-0.7%).

Meanwhile, Universal says Oppenheimer did $10.5M at 3,150 theaters.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Awesome stuff. Barbie is shaping up to be the most exciting run of the year, and Oppenheimer is going to more than acquit itself as well. Great time to be a fan of good movies

  • @marx2k
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    51 year ago

    I couldn’t get into Oppenheimer in the local imax for this weekend. All sold out. And they’re doing 3 screens of it all weekend. Wtf

    • AzuleBlade
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      51 year ago

      Do yourself a favor and wait until you can see it in IMAX, it’s how Nolan intended it to be viewed. I don’t want to spoil anything, I’ll just say it blew me away.

      • @marx2k
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        41 year ago

        Oh we will be. Its just no tickets available until next weekend.