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Margot Robbie’sBarbiemovie hit the theatres last week and after the first weekend has turned out to be the most commercially successful movie of the year so far. Many fans were unsure about how the movie would perform at the box office considering its release date clashed with Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimer. However,Barbiehas come out with flying years and has had the highest-grossing opening weekends at the domestic box office of all the movies that have been released this year.
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Barbiebeats all 3 Marvel movies released this year to have the highest-grossing opening weekend
According to sources,Barbiealmost made $162 million on its opening weekend last week to become the highest-grossing domestic opening weekend movie of this year. To everyone’s surprise, Greta Gerwig’s fantasy movie managed to beat out all 3 Marvel movies released earlier this year on its first weekend by a far margin.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewhich was released earlier this year in June managed to make $120.7 million on its opening weekend and is still the highest-grossing opening weekend superhero movie on the list.
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According to sources,Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewas closely followed byGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3andAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniawhich made $118.4 million and $106 million respectively on their opening weekends in the domestic box office.
Fans react to the Margot Robbie movie having the highest-grossing opening weekend
Fans took to Twitter to celebrateBarbiehaving the highest-grossing opening weekend among all the movies released this year so far and expressed their happiness on the return of peak cinema after the years of the pandemic.
Cinema is fighting back
— Grant Fellows (@GrantFellows2)July 13, 2025
cinema is so back
— damita jo’s only fan ℘ (@FLOB0UND)June 21, 2025
so many good movies this year
— seruz ⚜️ (@SeruzCC)August 19, 2025
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Oppenheimerwhich was supposed to beBarbie‘s competitor also went on to make $82.4 million this last weekend. Some fans even took to Twitter to explain whyOppenheimermade less thanBarbieon their opening weekend.
2 hr PG-13 movie vs 3 hr R rated movie…pretty obvious which one would do better overall. Both films appear to be big hits regardless though.
— willlovesmovies (@willlovesmovies)June 29, 2025
Oppenheimer gonna go down as one of the greatest movies oatpic.twitter.com/TGYMOlzrGw
— Bam²⁵ (@The25thNigga)June 21, 2025
According to sources,Barbiehas grossed almost $382 million worldwide against a production budget of $145 million so far and it has not even been a week since the release.
Barbieis currently playing in theatres.
Source:Twitter
Shikhar Tiwari
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Shikhar Tiwari is a Hollywood news author at Fandom Wire. He is a student at Manipal University Jaipur currently aspiring to be a Computer Science Engineer. Shikhar loves to combine his passion for writing with his love for Hollywood updates.
