Who Wins From 'Barbenheimer'?

Light, camera, action! ‘Barbenheimer’ is setting records at the box office. The pair of movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, generated an estimated $235 million in ticket sales throughout its opening weekend.

• Barbie pulled off the biggest debut of the year, closing in a $155 million opening weekend

• Oppenheimer collected $80.5 million in its opening weekend

The duo, known as ‘Barbenheimer’, is set to be the fourth-highest opening weekend haul of all time and the largest since ‘Avengers: Endgame’ hit theatres in 2019.

Who Wins From ‘Barbenheimer?’

When record-setting events like this happen, there are always some big-time winners. So, who is it? It’s not only the production companies that come out on top…

For example:

IMAX

• Collected $35 million from ‘Oppenheimer’ in its opening weekend. This comes from 20% of the total opening weekend receipts coming from IMAX.

• IMAX shares have gained over 5% in mid-day trading.

AMC

• Opening weekend for ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ brought around 7.8 million moviegoers to AMC theatres. On Saturday, AMC posted the best single-day attendance since July 2019, while food and beverage hit its second-highest daily total ever.

• AMC shares have gained over 37% in mid-day trading.

Mattel

• The toy manufacturing company, that also helped create the ‘Barbie’ movie, is feeling the love after opening weekend.

• Mattel shares have gained over 2% in mid-day trading.

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