Since its release more than two weeks ago, Barbie has surpassed the US$1 billion mark, shattering a record for female filmmakers previously held by Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman. On Sunday, Warner Bros Pictures said that the film earned a total of $1.0315 billion (A$1.56 billion, £800 million) during the weekend, including $459 million from North American cinemas and another $572.1 million from other markets. The number was verified by the media analytics company Comscore. Jeff Goldstein and Andrew Cripps, the studio's domestic and foreign distribution heads, stated in a joint statement, "As distribution chiefs, we're not often rendered speechless by a film's performance, but Barbillion has blown even our most optimistic predictions out of the water."

Three weeks into its production, the Margot Robbie-starring and -produced movie has been solidly placed in first position. Faster than any previous movie at the company, including the Harry Potter series, it exceeded $400 million in the US and $500 million overseas. The film, which stars Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, is directed by Oscar-nominated writer-director Greta Gerwig and follows the iconic toy doll on a journey in the real world. The Super Mario Bros., which made a total of $1.357 billion at the box office, is currently ahead of Barbie in terms of ticket sales for this year.. In modern box office history, just 53 movies have made over $1bn, not accounting for inflation, and Barbie is now the biggest to be directed by one woman, supplanting Wonder Woman’s $821.8m global total. 

Frozen ($1.3 billion), Frozen 2 ($1.45 billion), both co-directed by Jennifer Lee, and Captain Marvel ($1.1 billion), co-directed by Anna Boden, are the three films that have made more money than Barbie. Barbie now holds the record for the most domestically successful live-action films directed by women in North America, surpassing Captain Marvel with $459.4 million (as opposed to $426.8 million).With the increase of $28.7 million in North America, Oppenheimer's domestic revenue now stands at $228.6 million, while its global revenue is $552 million. In just three weeks, the J Robert Oppenheimer biopic starring Cillian Murphy has become the highest-grossing R-rated film of the year and the sixth-biggest of the year overall, surpassing Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.