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“Barbie” has topped $537 million, making it the highest-grossing domestic movie in Warner Bros. Discovery’s 100-year history.
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The previous record holder was Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” which generated $536 million in 2008.
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The bubblegum pink collaboration between Greta Gerwig, Mattel and Warner Bros. Discovery has collected more than $1.2 billion at the global box office since its July 21 release.
Ticket prices are always going up and so is population size. Movies beating record sales always feels like a big nothing to me. Good movie though!
And inflation. The Dark Knight is $745 million in this year’s dollars.
That was my first thought. “Are those numbers adjusted for inflation?” Glad you did the math so that I didn’t have to.
I feel like number of tickets sold, or maybe proportion of total tickets sold would be a better metric, but it’s way more fun to keep breaking records. Plus it’s mostly about the money anyways.
Inflation in a nutshell. Records don’t mean anything without correction for inflation.