Barbie continues to be the queen of the weekend box office with an estimated $33.7 million – sinking hopes for another scary contest

Barbie remained the box office queen, despite a new, terrifying competition.

The action-adventure starring Margot Robbie and a very beachy Ryan Gosling grossed an estimated $33.7 million over the weekend of August 11-13.

The film based on the often controversial doll remained at the top of the box office for the fourth week in a row.

The film has now made about $1.2 billion worldwide and would soon be The Super Mario Bros. Movie can catch up or surpass for the highest-grossing movie of 2023.

Greta Gerwig also holds the record for the highest-grossing film directed exclusively by a woman.

Oppenheimer returned to second place and earned $18.8 million.

Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey, Jr. are part of the impressive cast in this World War II drama centered on the race to build a nuclear bomb.

Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film has earned $264 million domestically and $649 million worldwide and is now the highest-grossing WWII film of all time.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem landed in third place, earning $15.8 million for the weekend.

Meg 2: The Trench dropped to fourth place in its second week.

The high seas adventure story featuring action star Jason Statham’s battle against a giant shark grossed $12.3 million.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter had a very leaky debut weekend.

The fear movie based on a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula didn’t find many treasures for its efforts, with a treasury of just $6.5 million.

Haunted Mansion kept that spooky feeling alive in sixth place.

The Disney comedy starring Rosario Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, and Tiffany Haddish skated by with $5.6 million in gross revenue.

Talk to Me moved up a notch, to seventh place.

The supernatural thriller about a group of friends who conjure ghosts with the help of an embalmed hand raked in $5.1 million this weekend.

Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel as a former U.S. border agent who quits his job to focus on rescuing children from human trafficking, found a home in eighth place, with $4.8 million.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One followed in ninth place.

The Tom Cruise action vehicle took off with nearly $4.7 million in ticket sales.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny still has fans in its grip, coming in at number 10 with just $899,000 at the box office.

Next week’s offer will feature some young heroes.

Blue Beetle, a new superhero movie starring Cobra Kai’s Xolo Maridueña as a Mexican-American teenager who finds an alien beetle that gives him super-powered armor, premieres next week.

Landscape with Invisible Hand, about two teenagers who rebel against their alien overlords, will also join the fray.