Forecasters think"Barbie" will be the highest-grossing film in the US this summer with earnings between $215 million and $319 million, the data shows.rival but is still expected to gross between $154 million and $194 million and become the summer's third most successful film.
Sandwiching the two movies on Box Office Pro's leaderboard is Tom Cruise's latest"Mission Impossible" flick. If all three of those films bomb, theaters' last hopes to make money this summer will be"Haunted Mansion," the new"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film, and"Meg 2: The Trench" – none of which are expected to gross over $150 million.
Theater chains have made attempts to cash in on the Barbie-Oppenheimer hype, with AMC already selling 20,000 tickets to members who want to see both on the same day and Alamo DrafthouseThe double-bill comes at a time when their businesses are still struggling to recover from the pandemic, over two years after the US lifted most lockdown restrictions.