C'mon Barbie, let's go party.
After taking in $22.2 million on Thursday, Greta Gerwig's fantasy comedy/satire scored an estimated $48.2 million from 4,243 theaters on Friday for a $70.5 million total, easily giving it the biggest opening day of the year.
This means Barbie will almost certainly hit $155 million domestically this weekend - and it's already passed $100 million worldwide!
If predictions hold, the movie will also score the highest three-day opening of 2023, and has a shot at landing the biggest opening weekend ever for a feature with a female director.
A pretty spectacular showing, especially in this era of supposed "box office fatigue."
From Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird) comes Barbie, which also stars America Ferrera (End of Watch, the How to Train Your Dragon films), Kate McKinnon (Bombshell, Yesterday), Issa Rae (The Photograph, Insecure), Rhea Perlman (I’ll See You in My Dreams, Matilda), and Will Ferrell (the Anchorman films, Talladega Nights), and more.
Gerwig directs from a screenplay she penned alongside Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story, The Squid and the Whale), based on the iconic fashion dolls by Mattel.
The film’s producers are Oscar nominee David Heyman (Marriage Story, Gravity), Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, with Gerwig, Baumbach, Ynon Kreiz, Richard Dickson, Michael Sharp, Josey McNamara, Courtenay Valenti, Toby Emmerich and Cate Adams serving as executive producers.