{"id":24765,"date":"2023-07-24T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=24765"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:22:05","slug":"movies-are-you-following-the-barbenheimer-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/07\/movies-are-you-following-the-barbenheimer-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies &#8211; Are You Following The #Barbenheimer Movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbenheimer.\u00a0 A combination of movie titles.\u00a0 \u00a0Barbie.\u00a0 Oppenheimer.\u00a0 Two blockbuster movies hit theatres this weekend at the same time.\u00a0 And from the same company.\u00a0 \u00a0In competition with themselves?<\/p>\n<p>Barbie.\u00a0 Many expect it to be a silly movie.<\/p>\n<p>Oppenheimer &#8211; you&#8217;re dealing with the story of the man who created the atomic bomb during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Two extreme movies.\u00a0 Or are they?<\/p>\n<p>Either way &#8211; both broke box office records this past weekend.\u00a0 Moviegoers went to the theatre in record numbers. Bringing in way more people and money than expected. Barbie claims the top spot with 155 million US in ticket sales from North American theatres, beating the Super Mario Bros Movie as the biggest opening of the year and breaking the first weekend record for a film directed by a woman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oppenheimer&#8221; also went beyond expectations, taking in 80.5 million U.S. &#8211; one of the best-ever starts for an R-rated biographical drama.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the first time that one movie opened to more than US $100 million and another movie opened to more than US$80 million in the same weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen either one?\u00a0 Or are you planning on taking in the #barbenheimer movement and taking in a double showing and going to see both?????<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBk4NYhWNMM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35FbTkEXe2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYPbbksJxIg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbenheimer.\u00a0 A combination of movie titles.\u00a0 \u00a0Barbie.\u00a0 Oppenheimer.\u00a0 Two blockbuster movies hit theatres this weekend at the same time.\u00a0 And from the same company.\u00a0 \u00a0In competition with themselves? 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