A tidal wave. The film "Barbie", starring actors Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has already brought in nearly $ 155 million in revenue to American and Canadian cinemas this weekend, according to its distributor Warner Bros. Driven by an unparalleled promotional campaign, the sexagenarian doll signs the best movie debut of the year in North America.
Better than "Oppenheimer"
The France did not resist the wave of "Barbie": the film took the lead in the annual ranking, exceeding the threshold of 6000,<> Parisian admissions just hours after its release.
Greta Gerwing's opus beats its rival "Oppenheimer", another blockbuster of the summer released the same day. Christopher Nolan's feature film, which chronicles the making of the atomic bomb, grossed $80.5 million in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend, making it the second-best start of the year in North America.
These two successes - popular and critical - are a relief for the American film industry, which was worried about a summer hitherto gloomy in terms of admissions.