Margot Robbie. Samir Hussein/WireImage
This Barbie is headed to the financial institution. Margot Robbie is alleged to be incomes a powerful wage — and bonus — for the Barbie film because the movie soars previous $1 billion on the field workplace.
Robbie, 33, is about to earn about $50 million between her wage and bonuses, Selection experiences, noting that three separate sources corroborated the small print. The Aussie actress, who performs the enduring doll within the Greta Gerwig-directed movie, produced Barbie with LuckyChap Leisure, which she based with husband Tom Ackerley and enterprise companions Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr.
Since Barbie debuted in theaters on July 21, it has raked within the massive bucks. The PG-13 comedy debuted to a whopping $162 million on opening weekend and surpassed the billion-dollar threshold on August 6. The movie continues to dominate the home field workplace each weekend, and, as of Tuesday, August 15, the film has gathered $1.187 billion worldwide.
Shortly earlier than the movie opened, Robbie recalled pitching Gerwig’s Barbie to studio executives at Warner Bros. She believed she was overselling the movie — which follows Barbie via an existential disaster that leads her and Ken to the actual world — when she claimed it could rake in a minimum of 10 figures on the worldwide field workplace.
“I believe my pitch within the green-light assembly was, the studios have prospered a lot once they’re courageous sufficient to pair an enormous thought with a visionary director,” she recalled in a pre-SAG-AFTRA strike interview with Collider in July. “After which I gave a sequence of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that – just about naming something that’s been unbelievable and made a ton of cash for the studios through the years. And I used to be like, ‘And now you’ve bought Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’”
She concluded, “I believe I informed them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which perhaps I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make.”
The feat makes Gerwig, 40, the one solo feminine director to affix the billion-dollar director membership with a live-action film. (Captain Marvel‘s Anna Boden, who co-directed the Brie Larson-led superhero movie with Ryan Fleck, is the one different girl to helm any of the 53 motion pictures to surpass $1 billion).
Barbie is each Gerwig and Robbie’s first billion-dollar image. The identical goes for Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera and a lot of the solid. Nevertheless, 15-year-old Ariana Greenblatt, one of many film’s youngest stars, now has a number of billion-dollar hits on her resume. She beforehand performed Younger Gamora in Avengers: Infinity Conflict (2018), and the Marvel film earned $2.05 billion.
The Mattel film additionally had a much bigger weekend than all Marvel’s 2023 theatrical releases, together with Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in addition to Sony’s Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse.
