This was the biggest opening weekend at the box office this year, much to conservatives’ dismay.

The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.

The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.

    • zombuey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      So Anheuser-Busch is doing absolutely fine better than last years and last quarter. What I find absolutely HILARIOUS is these morons switching to other Anheuser-Busch brands in protest. Despite mostly fake news about their demise. They will eventually all just forget about this and move on to their new stupid thing.The dip from this was so small that there wasn’t even really an opportunity to make any money off it. it valleyed at 53 just before a record high of 66 the month prior but its already bouncing back at 58. I wouldn’t invest right now unless you’re looking long-term because they ain’t going nowhere. Also Bud Light sucks why do these idiots drink this shit.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Is doing just fine… More people were pissed about their cowardly reaction to that whole situation.

      • JingJang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I’m on your side and went to that link.

        Unfortunately, the person you are debating is correct. Anheuser-Busch’s stock fell over 20% after the boycott began and while it’s come up a little since the initial fall it’s still no where near where it was prior to the boycott in April.

        That said, that might be the ONLY example of this slogan being accurate (at least right now).

        • legion02@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          So did Coke and Heineken and other beverage companies during that timeframe. These things don’t happen in a vacuum, they’re all subject to market conditions.

        • BeardedGingerWonder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          They’re still up on last year and were much lower in September 22 than any dive since the protest. Even looking at the 5 year chart, pre protest levels weren’t much on where they were 2018. The protests were a blip at best.

          • JingJang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            11 months ago

            I went back pretty far and there is definitely a substantial drop.

            The people here saying it had zero is very little effect are not correct.

            Granted, overall they are fine and in time this will be historic as time matures the stock so in that respect what the majority of people here are saying will be true.

            So they are ridiculous when they say, “Go woke go broke”. But, the boycott definitely has had an impact to the value of the stock, one that continues today.

            (I looked at the stock prior to April when the boycott and the whole “Go woke go broke” catch phrase started gaining traction.).