The “Barbenheimer” tidal wave did not spare Quebec; the two feature films together grossed over three million in box office revenue, the comedy Barbie amassing more than two million alone, almost twice that of the drama Oppenheimer.
This cannon performance relegated Mission: Impossible – Death toll, Part 1 in third place, the adventure film starring Tom Cruise had to settle for just over $550,000 in box office receipts in its third week on Quebec screens, for a total of nearly 2.5 million.
Quebec film One summer time also had another excellent weekend at the counters; Louise Archambault’s film raised more than $235,000, and now has box office receipts of nearly $765,000. The feature film in which Patrice Robitaille is starring is thus placed in a very honorable fourth place on the Quebec charts, to the great pleasure of its artisans: “We are very happy to see that the public continues to come in large numbers to see Le temps d’unété, indicated in a press release Patrick Roy, president of Immina Films. It is very rare to see a second weekend as strong as the first. This is the sign of extremely positive word-of-mouth around the film! It’s very exciting to see that even when big blockbusters Americans are a hit at the box office, there is room for Quebec cinema and the public responds present. »
On a North American scale, the past weekend exceeded all expectations, Barbie grossing more than 155 million in the 4,243 theaters on the continent that screened the film starring Margot Robbie, surpassing The Super Mario Bros. movie as well as all the films launched this year by Marvel. Greta Gerwig’s film also broke the first-weekend box office record for a film directed by a woman.
As for Oppenheimer, the biographical drama by Christopher Nolan retracing the story of the father of the atomic bomb recorded receipts of 80.5 million in 3,610 cinemas in the United States and Canada, despite the fact that it is prohibited for children under 17 unless accompanied by an adult, except in Quebec where the film is rated for all. Dramas thus categorized rarely experience such popular success from the first weekend.
It is the first time that two films have both exceeded 80 million in the same weekend. If the trend continues, it will likely be the fourth-biggest weekend in box office history, grossing over $300 million for the entire industry. The only real victim of this phenomenon was Impossible mission which, despite strong reviews and a strong opening weekend, saw its revenue drop 64% in its second weekend.
With Associated Press