GimpYancIent
Well-Known Member
Barbie is on the path to being the 2023 #1 movie thus far. The theater goers have spoken with their time and money.
You think its going to do better than Mario? Dunno, we'll see in a couple weeks if this continues up or was just a good opening weekend.Barbie is on the path to being the 2023 #1 movie thus far. The theater goers have spoken with their time and money.
“Look everybody! Barbie and Super Mario are huge hits! Films don’t need to be based on pre-existing IPs anymore!”
Barbie strikes me as similar to the Brady Bunch movies. Respectful of the source material but doesn't take itself too seriously.
Seeing is believing, but according to MarketWatch:You think its going to do better than Mario? Dunno, we'll see in a couple weeks if this continues up or was just a good opening weekend.
Sure about that?In the short run, this Summer is going to result in the studios cranking out a lot of films based on culturally relevant but previously unfilmed IPs, mainly video games and toys, which will be substantially worse then the flood of superhero cinema since superhero comics are at least an easily cinematically translatable, narrative form.
And then WDAS-made 100th anniversary film Wish hit theaters this November, also the original film. Given the massive promotion of the film, we expected bigger opening weekend for a Disney film this year, even if did not deliver the same number as Super Mario.“Look everybody! Barbie and Super Mario are huge hits! Films don’t need to be based on pre-existing IPs anymore!”
Yes. I’ve seen Battleship, G.I. Joe (the first and second but not Snake Eyes), all the Resident Evil movies, the original Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, a bunch of other video game movies, etc.Sure about that?
You think its going to do better than Mario? Dunno, we'll see in a couple weeks if this continues up or was just a good opening weekend.
Yeah it appears to have a great opening weekend, no doubt about it. Its the "legs" that are the question, will it continue to do well week after week, only time will tell. I'm not betting against it at this point, but we've seen how the year has been and it hasn't been pretty for a lot of movies. We'll see how Barbie does next weekend, and the weekends after that.Seeing is believing, but according to MarketWatch:
"“Barbie” has presales surpassing Walt Disney Co.’s DIS, +1.13% “The Little Mermaid,” according to Hickey, with U.S. projections ranging from $90 million to $125 million and global projections of around $165 million." Now to see the opening weekend numbers on Monday thus far the numbers are strong and climbing.
We'll have to see. I've seen the movie, and its good but not great in my opinion. The middle for me just dragged on a bit....My gut tells me Barbie is going to do even better than Mario at the domestic box office.
But what I don't know about is how well Barbie will do overseas. Isn't she really just an American thing? Do British and French and Japanese and Australian girls play with Barbies when they are young? I've got no knowledge of that, but I'd be surprised to learn that Mattel sells Barbies globally with the same success they have in the USA with her. Who knows?
That's the problem with Little Mermaid, she did okay in the USA, but was a bomb overseas. Mario did twice the box office domestically that Mermaid did, but then soared an extra $200 Million overseas above its already huge domestic box office.
Is Barbie just going to be an American phenomenon, or is this something audiences in Europe and East Asia will also go see?
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I don’t love the idea of Barbie 2: Back to Barbieland (felt Barbie 1 was enough of a mixed bag)
if Disney would hire talented filmmakers and let them do their thing
It’s coming after this weekend. Biggest consensus takeaway is Gosling walks away with the movie, plus the ending leaves his character is a very weird unresolved place. The human/toy logic of the movie is so inconsequential it won’t hold them back from doing whatever they want with Robbie’s character. Toy Story this is not by a long shot.The story Barbie tells doesn't lend itself to a sequel anyway...unless it's about Ken's journey of self-discovery...
We'll have to see. I've seen the movie, and its good but not great in my opinion. The middle for me just dragged on a bit...
And in any other year I might agree with you. But we've seen this hasn't been a normal year. Movies that should be huge audience draws long term, such as MI:7, just aren't. And movies that start slow end up finding an audience and become long term draws, budgets aside, like TLM and Elemental.Nope. I have an odd ability to sense pop-culture phenoms, which is why I pegged Barbie the hit of the summer, if not decade, a month ago.
This movie does not need to be Doctor Zhivago or Gone With The Wind as a work of cinematic art for the ages. It just needs to be Barbie.
And when I just went to Google "Barbie" to get the latest news link I put below, the entire Google screen turned pink and had pink sparkly Mattel-font things all over it. Try it. Even Google knows this movie is the thing.
Barbie is huge. Maybe not Star Wars huge, but at least E.T. huge. This one is going to rewire Hollywood for at least the next few years.
Also, I went to dinner with old San Diego friends tonight. We talked Barbie plans for a few minutes during the first course. The table next to us was talking about it. Our waitress overheard us and gushed about it and her plans to see it again.
Barbie is huge. Disney could only wish to have something this big about now.
‘Barbie’ Still Gorgeous With Best YTD $162M Opening; ‘Oppenheimer’ Detonates $82M+ In Incredible $300M+ U.S. Box Office Weekend – Monday AM Update
Box Office: 'Barbie' Eyes $20M Previews, 'Oppenheimer' $9M+deadline.com
P.S. I am definitely not a square, I just have to wait for the family to arrive next week before we go see it together.
And in any other year I might agree with you. But we've seen this hasn't been a normal year. Movies that should be huge audience draws long term, such as MI:7, just aren't. And movies that start slow end up finding an audience and become long term draws, budgets aside, like TLM and Elemental.
I'm not doubting its ability to turn a profit, it most likely will. What I'm saying lets wait and see on is your claim that it'll beat Mario domestically. It would have to do more than $574M in the US to beat Mario. I'm not saying it won't, I'm just saying lets wait and see 2nd and 3rd weekend drops.All three of those films have lost money. For Disney and Pixar, they lost huge amounts of money combined.
Barbie is going to be a huge success, both culturally and financially.
Don't forget, I was outed here as the Internet's first influencer and I can make or break anyone or anything.
Barbie is huge. I have deemed it so.
The entire stated point of Barbie was to make Mattel the next Marvel. That won't work in the long term, but the massive success of this weekend guarantees they'll try for a while.Mattel has already announced they have plans for more of their products to get the film treatment including Hot Wheels…Barbie just opened a can of worms
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