Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Box Office: “Barbie” Toys with Crossing $500 Mil US on Friday Even with Very Slight Slowdown

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Look, the “Barbie” box office has to slow down eventually. Last night you could see the beginnings of it with a daily gross of $7.35 million.

But that was slight. Tomorrow, Friday. Warner Bros’s cash cow will cross the $500 million mark in the US. It’s well over $1 billion worldwide. The juggernaut will continue through Labor Day weekend at least.

Hasn’t everyone already seen it? Twice? But this like “Top Gun Maverick” or “Spider Man No Way Home” or “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Once the pinball is stuck bouncing around in the top of the game, the bell just keeps ringing!

Ka ching! Ka ching! Ka ching!

PS Barbra Streisand should consider changing the name of her coming book to “Barbie.” Guaranteed best seller!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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