This was the biggest opening weekend at the box office this year, much to conservatives’ dismay.

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.

    • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      381·
      11 months ago

      They were doing some thing of pay it forward garbage where they would get donations “so we can open the public eyes” and then buyout a theater showing, which no one was there.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
        28·
        11 months ago

        They sure do love to fling money at the most random dumb shit, and then immediately complain that democrats are the reason they’re broke

        • OwenEverbinde@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I am amazed they haven’t run out of money already.

          Were they all millionaires before this whole Trump thing started?

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        Did they have a plan to get those tickets to people? Or did this whole thing exhibit the kind of forethought we’ve come to expect from these people?