'Barbie' is a box office superhero. On Tuesday, the film starring Margot Robbie as the iconic doll notched another major milestone, passing Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' to become the biggest Warner Bros. movie ever in North America, not adjusted for inflation.
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00:00 - Humans only have one ending.
00:03 - Get that Barbie!
00:04 - Ideas live forever.
00:08 - Barbie is a box office superhero.
00:10 On Tuesday, the film starring Margot Robbie
00:12 as the iconic doll notched another major milestone,
00:16 passing Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight
00:18 to become the biggest Warner Brothers movie
00:20 ever in North America, not adjusted for inflation.
00:23 - Hi Barbie!
00:25 - Hi Ken!
00:26 - Barbie's Tuesday haul was $6.1 million
00:29 for a domestic total of $537.4 million.
00:33 In 2008, The Dark Knight topped out at $536 million.
00:37 Barbie jumped the $1.2 billion mark
00:39 at the worldwide box office on Tuesday,
00:41 where it is the second biggest Warner Brothers release
00:44 in history behind only the final Harry Potter film,
00:47 which grossed $1.34 billion globally,
00:50 not adjusted for inflation.
00:51 Bullish observers believe Barbie
00:53 can pass Harry Potter as well.
00:55 Among other key records shattered,
00:57 Greta Gerwig now ranks as the highest-grossing
00:59 female director of all time at the domestic box office,
01:02 solo or otherwise, after Barbie skated past
01:05 Frozen 2's North American haul of $477.4 million.
01:09 For more on Barbie and the latest box office news
01:12 and numbers, go to thr.com.
01:14 For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
01:17 (explosion)