In 2023, "Barbenheimer" took over the world, as both Barbie and Oppenheimer found massive success at the box office. Upon the release of Wicked, many have compared the new musical to Barbie.

The Barbie film has become the US and Canada's biggest film of the year so far, said distributor Warner Bros. An estimated $155m (£120m) was made in its opening weekend, the company said.

Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took ...

September starts right off with yet another competitor for one of Barbie’s primary demographics ... factors hamstringing much of the 2023 box office so far (despite much of the entertainment ...

It’s a smaller-scale repeat of last year’s awards when summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer towered over the category with their respective $1.5 billion and $976 million box office hauls.