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Why ‘Barbenheimer’ Ended Up Being One of the Most Successful One-Two Punches in Cinema History · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Much has been made of Barbenheimer, the supposed battle of
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Speaker 2: the box office over the past weekend between two films.
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Speaker 2: It couldn't be more different on paper, Greta Gerwigs Barbie
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Speaker 2: and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: rather than battle each other out, the unlikely allies more
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Speaker 2: accurately ended up uniting to claim one of the most
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Speaker 2: successful domestic box office weekends in cinematic history. Barbie was
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Speaker 2: easily number one, ranking in more than one hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty million dollars nationwide, officially the most successful opening for
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Speaker 2: a female director movie of all time. But Oppenheimer was
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Speaker 2: certainly a strong number two, particular for a ratedar think piece,
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Speaker 2: earning more than eighty two million dollars, and Disney's Haunted
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Speaker 2: Mansion took in around thirty million dollars. All told, about
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Speaker 2: three hundred and eight million dollars in movie ticket sales
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Speaker 2: were sold across the US, the fourth best weekend theaters
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Speaker 2: have ever seen.
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