Box Office Report: Barbenheimer Impresses In Second Weekend While ‘Talk To Me’ Exceeds Expectations
Box Office analysis is provided by Daniel Garris of BoxOfficeReport.com.
Weekend Actuals Update (Monday) - July 28th, 2023 to July 30th, 2023:
Warner Bros.'s Barbie had a fabulous second weekend performance with a first place take of $93.012 million. That represented a decline of just 42.6 percent from last weekend's break-out debut. Barbie registered the seventh largest unadjusted second weekend gross of all-time; just ahead of the $92.35 million second weekend gross of The Super Mario Bros. Movie earlier this year and the $90.43 million second weekend gross of the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast back in March of 2017. Barbie had the best second weekend gross ever for Warner Bros., as the studio's previous best was the $75.17 million second weekend gross of The Dark Knight back in July of 2008. Barbie zoomed past the $300 million mark this weekend and even surpassed the $350 million domestic mark too, as the film's ten-day domestic total stands at $351.41 million. That already makes Barbie the fourth highest grossing release of 2023 thus far domestically and in the coming days, the film will surpass Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to move into second place among 2023 releases.
Internationally, Barbie grossed $127.0 million this weekend from 69 international markets. That was down only 31 percent from the film's international launch the prior weekend. Barbie has grossed $429.3 million internationally, which places the film's global haul through Sunday at a massive $780.7 million. Obviously, at this rate it won't be much longer before Barbie zooms past the $1 billion global milestone with ease. Totals for Barbie by international market through Sunday include $62.4 million in the United Kingdom, $41.5 million in Mexico, $33.4 million in Brazil, $30.6 million in Australia, $25.2 million in China, $21.4 million in Germany, $20.9 million in France, $20.6 million in Italy, $18.7 million in Spain, $10.6 million in Argentina, $8.4 million in the Netherlands and $7.6 million in Poland.
The other half of the Barbenheimer phenomenon, Universal's Oppenheimer, continued to impress as well this weekend with a second place gross of $46.706 million. Oppenheimer declined just 43.4 percent from last weekend, as the film had a very similar second weekend percentage decline as Barbie this weekend. Clearly, Oppenheimer and Barbie are both going over very with audiences, as suggested by the strong A ratings on CinemaScore for both films. In addition, both Barbie and Oppenheimer were likely helped out this weekend by audience overlap among moviegoers who caught one of the two films last weekend and wanted to catch the other film this weekend (especially given the 180-minute run-time of Oppenheimer). Through ten days, Oppenheimer has grossed an exceptional $174.57 million domestically. Oppenheimer continued to receive a major boost from IMAX screens this weekend, as the film took in an estimated $13.0 million from domestic IMAX screens, which brings the film's domestic IMAX total to $47.3 million (representing 27 percent of the film's overall domestic gross).
Internationally, Oppenheimer grossed $77.1 million this weekend from 78 international markets. Oppenheimer held up extremely well this weekend internationally, as the film declined a slim 21 percent from last weekend. The international total for Oppenheimer stands at $231.0 million. Oppenheimer passed the $400 million global mark on Sunday and has grossed $405.6 million globally through Sunday. Totals for Oppenheimer by international market through Sunday include $35.4 million in the United Kingdom, $18.1 million in Germany, $17.4 million in France, $13.5 million in Australia, $13.2 million in India, $10.6 million in Mexico, $9.5 million in Spain, $8.0 million in Saudi Arabia, $7.0 million in the Netherlands, $6.7 million in Brazil and $5.3 million in the U.A.E. Oppenheimer grossed an estimated $11.0 million from international IMAX screens this weekend. Through Sunday, Oppenheimer has grossed $33.4 million from international IMAX screens, for a global IMAX total of $80.7 million.
Meanwhile, Disney's Haunted Mansion was off to a third place start this weekend with $24.082 million. The latest horror comedy based on the Disney theme park attraction opened just below the low end of consensus expectations, which had tended to range from $25 million to $30 million heading into the weekend. The fact that Haunted Mansion opened slightly below the $24.28 million opening weekend of The Haunted Mansion way back in November over 2003 has to be seen as lackluster, even more so given that The Haunted Mansion opened on a Wednesday. Interest in the new version of Haunted Mansion felt relatively modest from the start, but opening in the midst of Barbenheimer and the film's poor critical reviews obviously didn't help matters either. Haunted Mansion looks to be going over better with audiences, though not incredibly so, as the film received a solid B+ rating on CinemaScore. Internationally, Haunted Mansion started out with an estimated $9.1 million this weekend from 35 select international markets. The film's international start this weekend was led by France with $1.8 million, Mexico with $1.7 million and Germany with $0.7 million. Haunted Mansion still has several major markets left to open in, including the United Kingdom (August 11), Italy (August 23), Australia (August 31) and Japan (September 1).
Angel Studios's Sound of Freedom placed in fourth with $12.814 million. While Sound of Freedom finally started to lose a bit of momentum this weekend (relatively speaking), the action thriller was still down a solid 35.4 percent from last weekend (which represented this weekend's best percentage hold among holdovers in wide release). Sound of Freedom is on the verge of surpassing the $150 million domestic mark with a 27-day domestic total of $149.377 million. The break-out film already has a current total gross to opening weekend ratio of 7.59 to 1.
Paramount's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One rounded out the weekend's top five with $10.600 million. That was a 45.2 percent decline from last weekend, as the expensive sequel was unable to stabilize further due in part to playing in 1,130 fewer locations this weekend than last weekend (and to taking a significant showtimes hit at many locations that held onto the film this weekend). The 19-day domestic total for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stands at $139.11 million. Thankfully, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One continues to perform much stronger internationally, than domestically. The film grossed an estimated $31.7 million internationally this weekend from 71 international markets. Respective totals for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stand at $309.3 million internationally (including $45.7 million from China) and at $448.4 million globally.
This weekend also saw A24's Talk to Me get off to a very nice sixth place start with $10.432 million. The critically acclaimed modestly budgeted horror film significantly exceeded expectations and performed very well with the film's cost in mind. Talk to Me delivered the second largest opening weekend ever for A24, behind only the $13.58 million start of fellow horror film Hereditary back in June of 2018. In addition to going over very well with critics, Talk to Me looks to be going over well with audiences, as the film received a B+ rating on CinemaScore, which is very solid for a horror film. The film's opening weekend to opening day ratio of 2.48 to 1 was also an encouraging early sign going forward for a film that could have been much more front-loaded towards opening day than it was.
Other weekend actuals for the frame include: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ($3.973 million), Elemental ($3.473 million), Insidious: The Red Door ($3.211 million), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($1.428 million), The First Slam Dunk ($0.645 million), Theater Camp ($0.632 million), No Hard Feelings ($0.415 million) and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($0.369 million).
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