Barbie to Decimate Mission: Impossible 7 and Oppenheimer, New Box Office Tracking Suggests
We do be living in the Barbie world, and the latest box office projections support this claim: apparently, M:I7 and Oppenheimer don't stand a chance against Barbie.
This mid-summer season is going to be wild. With the new Mission: Impossible releasing in mid-July and being followed by Oppenheimer and Barbie, the atmosphere is heated in advance.
It's not just the presence of three massive blockbusters, too; it's the insane competitiveness between them all. Christopher Nolan is frustrated with Warner Bros., so he's releasing Oppenheimer under Universal Studios instead.
WB is pissed at Nolan so the company is releasing Greta Gerwig's Barbie on the same day to undercut Oppenheimer's profits.
And then, there's Tom Cruise: he hates both of them for stealing "his" summer screens.
This isn't even competitiveness at this point: it's an actual proper rivalry. Cruise is furious for losing cinema screens just a week into Mission: Impossible 7's release; Nolan wants to publicly distance himself from Warner Bros.; and WB wants to — also publicly — humiliate the director and give him a middle finger by denying his profits.
At this point, the real question is, "Who's going to win the most from this war?"
As if the answer wasn't obvious enough, the most recent box office projections came into play. After estimating the approximate revenue of each of the movies in their first weekend after release, the tracking showed that there is in fact a clear winner.
According to the sources, Greta Gerwig's Barbie is 100% beating Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer — and most likely, it will even leave Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 7 in the dust, too.
At the same time, M:I7 will definitely overcome Oppenheimer in terms of box office revenue. The pedestal appears all set.
This shouldn't come as a surprise considering that serious and dramatic movies like Oppenheimer are not designed to smash their opening weekends; instead, they are made to last and be appreciated even decades later.
Barbie and Mission: Impossible, though, are the real heavyweights when it comes to cinema-smashing.
We don't think anyone's surprised to learn that Oppenheimer has the lowest projections, but the battle between M:I7 and Barbie will be interesting.
Admittedly, Tom Cruise's chances are far slimmer than usual, though — let's not forget that he's losing hundreds of screens just a week after Mission: Impossible 7's release.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter