Barbie Hits $1 Billion At The Box Office, Sets Record For Female Directors, Beats Harry Potter

It's official: Barbie has crossed $1 billion at the global box office. The movie earned around $53 million in the US and $74 million from international markets during its third weekend, boosting its global total to $1.03 billion.

Barbie is now the highest-grossing movie directed solely by a woman, surpassing 2017's Wonder Woman, which was directed by Patty Jenkins. A number of films co-directed by women have done better, including Frozen ($1.28 billion), Frozen 2 ($1.45 billion), and Captain Marvel ($1.3 billion).

Barbie has passed $400 million in the US and $500 million globally faster than any other Warner Bros. property of all time, including Harry Potter.

"As distribution chiefs, we're not often rendered speechless by a film's performance, but Barbillion has blown even our most optimistic predictions out of the water," WB bosses Jeff Goldstein and Andrew Cripps said in a statement to the AP.

Margot Robbie, who plays Barbie and is a producer on the film, told Collider that she told WB executives in a pitch meeting that Barbie the movie could earn $1 billion. And now it has. You can revisit the clip below.

Some of Barbie's new competition at the box office this weekend include TMNT: Mutant Mayhem and Meg 2: The Trench, as well as Oppenheimer, but none did well enough to surpass Barbie. Meg 2: The Trench landed in second this weekend, earning $30 million for its opening weekend in the US. Oppenheimer finished third, bringing in $38.7 million, and pushing past $500 million globally after three weeks.

Barbie and Oppenheimer released on the same day, July 21, which led to a number of "Barbenheimer" memes.