Barbenheimer Box Office Collection: Barbie and Oppenheimer trigger record-breaking weekend for UK cinemas

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Barbie and Oppenheimer on Friday, July 21, box office records have been broken. Both films being hyped and the with the Barbenheimer trend, most people have watched both Barbie and Oppenheimer in the first three days of release. While Greta Gerwig’s version of Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is a feminist take on the popular Barbie doll, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh, is a biography of physicist J Robert Oppenheimer who was also known as ‘Father of Atomic Bomb’

In the UK, Barbie’s opening box office stood at £17.5 million ($33.4 million), adding to its $337 (£262 million) global weekend. With Barbie, Greta Gerwig has the biggest opening weekend collections for a film made by a woman director. The earlier record was held by Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins for its $103 million opening collections. Moreover, Oppenheimer opened to $4.2 million on Friday, July 21 in UK. Oppenheimer collected £8.05 million in the UK and Ireland over the first weekend. The movie grossed $174.2 million (£135 million) globally. In the US, Barbie made 155 million dollars (£120 million) at the box office from 4,243 cinema halls in North America. In the US and Canada, Oppenheimer made 80.5 million dollars (£62.6 million) at the BO, from 3,610 cinema halls. It marks Nolan’s biggest non-Batman opening. It’s also the first time in US box office history that two movies have opened so well in the same weekend. Barbie opened to more than 100 million dollars (£77.8 million) and Oppenheimer opened to more than 80 million dollars (£62.2 million). According to PostTrak, in the US, women viewers made up 65 percent of the