Barbie just broke a box office record held by ‘The Dark Knight’:
That $26 million figure represents the most money any movie from Warner Bros. has ever made on a Monday, which is typically the quietest day of the week for theaters. Warners’ previous best for a Monday was the $24.5 million grossed by has defeated Batman. And, of course, director Christopher Nolan’s latest film in theaters. Then again, has already earned more than $82 million in the U.S.
alone, which is a darn good number for a movie about a theoretical physicist. did not have the biggest Monday in movie history however. The two top-grossers for that day of the week ever remain , which each made $40.1 million and change in theaters in one Monday each in 2018 and 2015, respectively. After that, the next highest-grosser is with $37.1 million, which makes sense.
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