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# ‘Barbie’ collects fourth weekend win
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-barbie-collects/
- Published: 2023-08-14T11:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:08:06.000Z
- Description: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Mutant Mayhem’ and ‘Meg 2’ mix it up for second place.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, Barbie, Oppenheimer

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of Aug. 11-13, 2023.

## 1\. Barbie

**Weekend gross:* $33.7M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $526.3M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 36*

I’m running out of *Barbie* photos to put on the **The Box Office Report**. The film notched a fourth straight weekend at No. 1, adding $33.7 million to bring its domestic haul to $526.3 million.

That’s enough to score the No. 18 spot on the all-time domestic box office chart, nestling in right between *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker*’s $515.2 million and *Rogue One*’s $533.5 million.

Barbie should easily be able to jump over the next three films on the domestic rankings, only needing less than $20 million more to pass *Rogue One*, *The Dark Knight* ($533.7 million) and the “live-action” *Lion King* ($543.6 million).

Does *Barbie* have another $50 million in its pink convertible’s tank to pass *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* ($574.2 million) as the biggest release of 2023? And how about another $25 million after that to become only the 14th film to crack the $600 million mark at the domestic box office?

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## 2\. Oppenheimer

**Weekend gross:* $18.8M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $264.3M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 35*

Last week’s tight race between *Oppenheimer*, *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem* and *Meg 2: The Trench* shook out differently this weekend, with *Oppenheimer* popping back into the No. 2 spot.

*Oppenheimer* is closing in on *Inception*’s place as the biggest domestic box office hit of **Christopher Nolan**’s directorial career that isn’t a *Batman* movie. Can it generate another $30 million to beat *Inception*’s $292.6 million lifetime gross?

## 3\. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

**Weekend gross:* $15.8M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $72.8M* 
**Last weekend:* 4th* 
**Percent drop:* 44*

Jumping up to the No. 3 spot this weekend, *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem* finds itself as the fifth highest grossing *Ninja Turtles* movie domestically. In North America, *Mutant Mayhem* has now outgrossed the animated *TMNT* movie ($54.1 million) and 1993’s *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III* ($42.3 million).

A 44 percent drop isn’t a horrible second-weekend fall, so hopefully *Mutant Mayhem* has the staying power needed to make animation like this a winner at the box office.

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## 4\. Meg 2: The Trench

**Weekend gross:* $12.7M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $54.1M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 58*

*Meg 2: The Trench*’s second-weekend drop, though, wasn’t great. Falling 58 percent, the **Jason Statham** film isn’t keeping up with the pace of its predecessor. It is, however, the biggest hit of director **Ben Wheatley**’s career, easily beating the $1.8 million domestic haul of *Free Fire* and the $5 million worldwide haul of *High-Rise*.

## 5\. The Last Voyage of the Demeter

**Weekend gross:* $6.5M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $6.5M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

*The Last Voyage of the Demeter* wasn’t a successful voyage at the box office either.

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

## Next weekend

*Barbie* likely has some real competition next weekend as *Blue Beetle* and *Strays* hit theaters. The social media reactions to *Blue Beetle* have been positive — but so were the initial reactions to *The Flash*. (I think a lot of these people just like going to movie premieres and will say anything on Twitter about a movie to keep getting invited back.)

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