The Big Picture The Labor Day weekend is delivering multiple box office milestones. Not only has overall revenue for the summer passed the $4 billion mark for the first time since pre-pandemic 2019, the two major contributors to that feat — Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer — are passing their own personal milestones as well. Barbie finally overtook The Super Mario Bros.
Nobody would’ve expected Oppenheimer to perform as well as it has, so it would be foolish to write it off now, when it’s possible that it legs it past the $900 million mark globally. After all, it is expected to pass the $850 million this weekend, overtaking Inception to become Nolan’s third-biggest hit behind his two billion-dollar blockbusters — The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.