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.

  • Saneless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thank you. Exactly this

    It reminds me of a story I tell of a lady on FB or whatever cancer portal and she was saying that it’s bullshit that an “illegal” in line at the grocery store who “doesn’t work” gets $800 a month for doing nothing

    First of all, being able to look at someone and knowing their citizenship status is an amazing talent. Secondly, this lady who lives in a town where the median income is $100k was pissed that someone made less than $10k a year

    Tonhwe, she was mad that the income gap for her family was only like $190k instead of $200k. If that person made $0 their lives wouldn’t change one but. They’re just that petty