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# ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ aren’t scared of ‘Haunted Mansion’
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-barbie-and/
- Published: 2023-07-31T11:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:09:46.000Z
- Description: The second weekend for ‘Barbenheimer’ brought in almost $150 million.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, Barbie, Oppenheimer

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of July 28-39, 2023.

## 1\. Barbie

**Weekend gross:* $93M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $351.4M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 43*

Another weekend, another big haul for *Barbie* and *Oppenheimer*. The two films dropped just 43 and 44 percent in their second weekend, allowing *Barbenheimer* to hold off Disney’s *Haunted Mansion*.

Barbie notched the seventh biggest second weekend, passing *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*’s $92.3 million. (It’s the biggest second weekend that didn’t crack the $100 million barrier.)

**Greta Gerwig**’s box office smash is already the No. 4 on the domestic chart for 2023 and will likely pass *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* ($358.9 million) and *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* ($378.8 million) by the end of next weekend.

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## 2\. Oppenheimer

**Weekend gross:* $46.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $174.1M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 44*

Things are also look great for *Oppenheimer*. **Christopher Nolan**’s latest is already No. 9 on that same 2023 chart, powering past *Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny* this weekend.

*Oppenheimer* still has a way to go to move up the domestic box office chart for Nolan’s films. A big third weekend should push it past *Interstellar* ($188 million), *Dunkirk* ($190.1 million) and *Batman Begins* ($205.3 million).

## 3\. Haunted Mansion

**Weekend gross:* $24.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $24.2M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

*Haunted Mansion* is Disney’s second attempt at turning the theme park ride of the same name into a film franchise. Twenty years ago, *The Haunted Mansion* hit theaters — and grossed $24.3 million its opening weekend. Yup. Basically the same as the *Haunted Mansion* did this weekend.

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## 4\. Sound of Freedom

**Weekend gross:* $12.4M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $149M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 37*

[Hmmm …](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/business/sound-of-freedom-box-office-pay-it-forward/index.html?ref=theomnicosm.com)

## 5\. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

**Weekend gross:* $10.7M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $139.2M* 
**Last weekend:* 4th* 
**Percent drop:* 45*

Paramount couldn’t have expected *Barbenheimer* to become the cultural moment it did when they scheduled *Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One* just over a week ahead of *Barbie* and *Oppenheimer*. Recent *Mission: Impossible* films have been major box office players but *Dead Reckoning* has been unable to hold off challengers.

Turns out Paramount should’ve considered moving *Dead Reckoning*, especially when it became clear that *Oppenheimer* was going to take all the IMAX and other premium large format screens.

*Box office numbers via* [*The Numbers*](http://www.the-numbers.com/?ref=theomnicosm.com) *based on Sunday estimates.*

## Next weekend

I’m rooting for *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem*, but I could very well see the animated film opening behind *Barbie*’s third weekend but ahead of *Oppenheimer*.

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