The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.

The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.

  • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I saw a little of ben Shapipos reaction to it through a leftist streamer.

    It was hilarious. He was literally mad that a core message of the movie is that you can be whoever you want to as a woman.

    Thats the slogan of the company Ben, idk why you didn’t know that.