The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.

The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They sure do love to fling money at the most random dumb shit, and then immediately complain that democrats are the reason they’re broke

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      1 year ago

      I am amazed they haven’t run out of money already.

      Were they all millionaires before this whole Trump thing started?

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        1 year ago

        No but millionaires billionaires and trillionaires fund them to keep doing this so we don’t all finally focus on the actual problems and tax/regulate millionaires billionaires and trillionaires.