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Headline: 'Barbenheimer' phenomenon fuels record-breaking box office weekend

Caption: 'Barbenheimer' phenomenon fuels record-breaking box office weekend. Greta Gerwig's film about the Mattel doll and Christopher Nolan's biopic about the 'father of the atomic bomb', J. Robert Oppenheimer, both debuted on Friday. Barbie triumphed commercially by making $155 million (£120.5 million) at the North American box office and $337 million (£262.1 million) globally. Oppenheimer made $80.5 million (£62.6 million) in North America and an impressive $174.2 million (£135.2 million) around the world. In North America, Barbie had the biggest weekend ever for a movie directed by a woman, beating Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's 2019 superhero movie,...

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