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.

  • Robbeee@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It started out a term teenagers on twitter used for when one of them discovered racism exists and corporations want to make money. Then conservative adults discovered it and started saying it instead of “the gay agenda.”

    Hearing actual senators use it is so embarrassing. I’m waiting for when they form the no cap caucus.