Barbie + Oppenheimer = record day at the French box office?

France’s first day on Wednesday, July 19, 2023

1 – Barbie: 359,889 admissions (including 91,530 in AVP)

2 – Oppenheimer: 159,674 entries

3 – House of Evil: 14,036 admissions

4 – Under the carpet: 4,488 entries (including 1,394 in AVP)

5 – Les Meutes: 2617 receptions (including 537 in AVP)

6 – The Persian Shadows: 2,509 admissions (including 449 in AVP)

7 – To date: 1,389 entries (including 745 in AVP)

8 – Paula: 600 entries (including 405 in AVP)

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Was it really necessary to oppose them? The box office will clearly reveal the winner in the announced duel Barbie and Oppenheimer. But, for now, it is the box office that seems to be the big winner of their releases.

Among them, feature films by Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan drew more than 500,000 viewers in one day (including previews). And Barbie marks the second-best start of the year, behind Asterix and Obelix: Middle Empire’s 466,703. Which, he, had no rival of Oppenheimer’s caliber.

Author of the best start for a Warner film since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, Barbie had several advantages over Oppenheimer. Starting with a shorter running time (1 hr. 54 hr. vs. 3 hr.), which allows for more sessions per day, or even a lighter tone and more pop vibe than a biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.

But the good start to Christopher Nolan’s solid twelfth feature (better than Dunkirk in 2017) proves that the desire to pit the two films against each other at all costs is counterproductive, as there is no comparison between them. They are quite complementary and this should have a positive effect on cinema reception. Barbenheimer, the summer hit of 2023?

Well helped by these two behemoths, with which few films have dared to rub shoulders (only eight new releases, including Barbie and Oppenheimer), and the box office is missing the best first day of 2023.

With a total of 545,202 admissions (with half as many films), the balance for July 19 is very slightly lower than February 1, which was marked by the combined releases of Asterix, Knock at the Cabin and Aftersun, with a total of 552,175 admissions, a distribution of nineteen feature films . But his average per opus is better.

and among the films in question, House of Evil It’s the one that gets the best out of the game, proving the potential of horror cinema to run in theaters. only forward under the carpet, Persian shades (with Tarane Alidoosti, seen in Leila and her brothers and arrested during a demonstration in Iran in December 2022) or packagesSpotted at the recent Cannes Film Festival.

Figures: CBO – box office