“Barbie” fever may finally be cooling.
Last night the toy story made $16 million. That’s a 41% drop from last Friday’s $29 million. The party isn’t over, but the guests are starting to get tired and may be going home soon.
“Barbie” is expected to add a total of $50 million this weekend, bringing the bottom line to $457 million. That’s a huge amount of money and success — until of course all the marketing money is calculated in. No one’s talking about that yet.
Yesterday there was a report that Warner Bros. has no sequel plans because they didn’t sign up the principal players. But you can place a bet that there will be a sequel, everyone will return, and there will be plenty of gauze over the lenses to keep these actors looking young enough for the roles! Maybe a scenario for the sequel will focus on Barbie and Ken’s kids — although without genitals, that would be hard to explain!
Meanwhile, “Oppenheimer” fell only 38% from last week and has buzzed along to $208 million. Extraordinary.
