This summer season, theaters had a twin launch of the movies Barbie and Oppenheimer, which some known as “Barbenheimer,” and it was the primary time for the reason that pandemic that we obtained to see two huge blockbusters go face to face on the identical opening weekend. Barbie received the field workplace, however each movies had nice theatrical openings and stable runs on the film theaters. Forward of the movies’ launch date, some executives had been nervous about two huge films going face to face once more, as they didn’t need their movie to lose out on any potential ticket gross sales, and although it didn’t appear to have a adverse influence, one producer particularly tried his greatest to budge Barbie to a distinct opening date.
In a latest version of Variety’s Actors on Actors, Oscar nominee and star of Barbie, Margot Robbie instructed Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy that producer Charles Roven, whom Robbie had beforehand labored on within the 2021 movie The Suicide Squad, had approached her about transferring Barbie’s launch:
“Certainly one of your producers, Chuck Roven, known as me, as a result of we labored collectively on another tasks. And he was like, ‘I feel you guys ought to transfer your date.’ And I used to be like, ‘We’re not transferring our date. When you’re scared to be up towards us, then you definitely transfer your date.’ And he’s like, ‘We’re not transferring our date. I simply assume it’d be higher so that you can transfer.’ And I used to be like, ‘We’re not transferring!’”
Barbie went on to gross $1.4 Billion within the field workplace, making it the very best grossing movie of 2023. Oppenheimer did nicely in its personal proper, however Robbie was proper to wager on her film.
