Barbie becomes Warner Bros highest domestic grossing film ever making $537million at the US box office and a fortune for star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig

Barbie has left Warner Bros in black — er, pink — after becoming the studio’s highest-grossing film of all time in U.S. theaters.

Stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling helped the studio turn the doll into dollars, taking in $537.5 million at the domestic box office since its release and overtaking Christopher Nolan’s 2008 Batman epic The Dark Knight.

Greta Gerwig has become the most successful debut female director of all time, rising above the $153 million raked in from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s 2019 blockbuster Captain Marvel.

The fantasy comedy stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken as they embark on a journey of self-discovery after an existential crisis.

Based on the beloved Mattel character and co-written by Gerwig with husband Noah Baumbach, the film was praised for its wry take on the expectations of womanhood but infuriated conservative critics, including Ben Shapiro who called it “a flaming piece of dog.” . **.’

Let’s party! Margot Robbie will earn $50 million from the film’s success as both star and producer

The hit has been in development since 2018, when Warner Bros acquired the rights from Sony

Barbie is now on track to become Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie to be the biggest domestic release of 2023. The doll flix has grossed a total of $1.2 billion in movie theaters around the world.

That leaves it just $120 million behind 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as the studio’s highest-grossing worldwide release of all time and places it at number 16 on the list of all-time blockbusters in the US.

Gerwig has also become one of the most popular names in the industry after her success.

“Gerwig’s ambition is not to be the greatest female director, but (rather) a great studio director,” a source told the newspaper. New Yorker

The film grossed over $300 million worldwide in its first weekend

Robbie (left) and Gerwig at the world premiere at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 9, 2023

The film’s success will net Robbie $50 million and leave her as one of the richest women in Hollywood for her role as a star and producer.

Robbie, 33, whose turn in the film garnered acclaim, will take home the huge salary and box office bonus, having also produced the film through her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, reports Varietyciting three individuals with knowledge of her deal.

LuckyChap – which Robbie founded in 2014 with husband Tom Ackerley and friends Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr – also produced Promising Young Woman, Birds of Prey and the Maid series.

The huge blockbuster is so successful that, according to insiders, there have already been talks to get the second one into production.

A source told The sun“The crew who worked on the Barbie movie have been contacted to talk about the sequel.

It’s still very early days, but it’s become clear that bosses want the same crew for the sequel as they did for the first.

“Emails have been sent, but details are yet to be finalized.”