Instead of competing at the box office though, the movies are sharing the spotlight and drawing double the crowd. It’s a phenomenon now known as, “Barbenheimer'.
The films likely couldn’t be more different.
One is a hot pink-filled comedy about the iconic doll and the other, a three-hour-long drama about a man who built the atomic bomb.The HGTV star was rushed to the ICU after attending the ‘Barbie’ premiere. But instead of competing at the box office though, the movies are sharing the spotlight and drawing double the crowd. It’s a phenomenon now known as, "Barbenheimer".
AMC theaters say they’ve already sold their members more than 40,000 tickets to see both, and on the same day. "Honestly, something like this at the box office is actually really rare," Angelique Jackson, Senior Entertainment Reporter at Variety, tells FOX 5."These are two films that come from directors that can get people in their seats just based on their names only, of course, that is Greta Gerwig for Barbie and Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer."However, more than a decade ago there was a similar situation. The two summer hits that year were The Dark Knight and Mama Mia.
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