Barbie vs Oppenheimer latest news: Frontrunner emerges in battle for box office supremacy

The devil works hard, but the Barbie movie’s marketing team works harder. Now, search engine Google has got on board ahead of the live-action film’s hotly anticipated release on Friday 21 July.

This week, fans noticed that if they typed in the term “Barbie” into the search engine, they were treated to a visual feast of pink sparkles. The screen will also change into a pink hue and some of the text and icons on the search page will turn pink.

The same effect happens when users search for the terms “Margot Robbie” and “Ryan Gosling”, who both star in the film, and “Greta Gerwig”, the director of Barbie.

“Unusually, the bigger names here – including Dua Lipa and Sam Smith – are the most underwhelming,” writes The Independent’s Adam White.

As the release date for Christopher Nolan’s new epic Oppenheimer approaches, rumours have begun circulating that the film is banned in Japan.

“Cillian Murphy allows the light to dim from his eyes in every subsequent scene, but it is Robert Downey Jr who is titanic here,” writes The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey.

Margot Robbie gave show-stopping performances on every hot pink carpet of the Barbie press tour, but a few of her planned Mattel-inspired outfits weren’t officially unveiled due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes cutting the world-wide event schedule short.

To give the missed looks the recognition they deserve, Robbie’s stylist Andrew Mukamal debuted six never seen photos in an 18 July Instagram post.

The price tag for cleaning up waste from the once top-secret Manhattan Project and subsequent Cold War-era nuclear research at Los Alamos National Laboratory has more than doubled in the last seven years, and independent federal investigators say federal officials will have to do better to track costs and progress.

In the days leading up to the release of the Barbie movie, directed by Greta Gerwig, the film has endured various attacks by right-wing figures, whose issue with the movie lies in what they say is a “woke” and “feminist” agenda. In a time of unprecedented attacks on women by conservatives, it’s not surprising that they’d also go after the things that simply bring us joy, like this movie.

None of these people are brave enough to admit why they hate this movie, writes Nylah Burton

Outside of buying a ticket to watch the movie, there are plenty of ways for us real-life folk to be a part of the Barbie fun.

From branded shoes, t-shirts and, of course, the dolls themselves, here is a guide to the merchandise on-sale to join in the Barbie (and Ken) party.

From Barbie dolls to pink trainers, bags, make up and more, there’s lots of pink-themed merchandise to pick up ahead of the movie release.

In a statement sent to The Independent, Tim Richards, founder and CEO of Vue International said: “We’re seeing incredible demand in the UK for both Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, part of this summer’s wave of blockbusters, and 22 per cent of people who booked tickets to Oppenheimer also booked tickets for Barbie.

“Barbie pre-sales to date are higher than any other blockbuster released this year and we expect this strong demand to continue, putting Barbie on track to become the biggest movie of 2023 in the UK so far.”

Vue added that any Barbie fans who bring a real-life Ken along with them to the cinema chain during the Barbie opening weekend (21 – 23 July) will receive either a free regular Tango Ice Blast or popcorn.

Barbie’s finally here, and with all the buzz leading up to its debut, the box office estimates are all over the place.

It’s expected to make between $95m (£72m) to $110m (£84m) from its opening weekend in 4,200 North American theatres, according to Variety.

However, Warner Bros is playing it safe and estimating a $75m (£57m) start. Meanwhile, there are some estimates out there that are projecting it could make as much as $140m (£107m).

Although, whatever its weekend takings are, they’re still expected to be higher than Oppenheimer’s, which is hoping to earn $50m (£38m) from its opening weekend in 3,600 cinemas.

The devil works hard, but the Barbie movie’s marketing team works harder. Now, search engine Google has got on board ahead of the live-action film’s hotly anticipated release on Friday 21 July.

This week, fans noticed that if they typed in the term “Barbie” into the search engine, they were treated to a visual feast of pink sparkles. The screen will also change into a pink hue and some of the text and icons on the search page will turn pink.

The same effect happens when users search for the terms “Margot Robbie” and “Ryan Gosling”, who both star in the film, and “Greta Gerwig”, the director of Barbie.

“Unusually, the bigger names here – including Dua Lipa and Sam Smith – are the most underwhelming,” writes The Independent’s Adam White.

As the release date for Christopher Nolan’s new epic Oppenheimer approaches, rumours have begun circulating that the film is banned in Japan.

“Cillian Murphy allows the light to dim from his eyes in every subsequent scene, but it is Robert Downey Jr who is titanic here,” writes The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey.

Margot Robbie gave show-stopping performances on every hot pink carpet of the Barbie press tour, but a few of her planned Mattel-inspired outfits weren’t officially unveiled due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes cutting the world-wide event schedule short.

To give the missed looks the recognition they deserve, Robbie’s stylist Andrew Mukamal debuted six never seen photos in an 18 July Instagram post.

The price tag for cleaning up waste from the once top-secret Manhattan Project and subsequent Cold War-era nuclear research at Los Alamos National Laboratory has more than doubled in the last seven years, and independent federal investigators say federal officials will have to do better to track costs and progress.

In the days leading up to the release of the Barbie movie, directed by Greta Gerwig, the film has endured various attacks by right-wing figures, whose issue with the movie lies in what they say is a “woke” and “feminist” agenda. In a time of unprecedented attacks on women by conservatives, it’s not surprising that they’d also go after the things that simply bring us joy, like this movie.

None of these people are brave enough to admit why they hate this movie, writes Nylah Burton

Outside of buying a ticket to watch the movie, there are plenty of ways for us real-life folk to be a part of the Barbie fun.

From branded shoes, t-shirts and, of course, the dolls themselves, here is a guide to the merchandise on-sale to join in the Barbie (and Ken) party.

From Barbie dolls to pink trainers, bags, make up and more, there’s lots of pink-themed merchandise to pick up ahead of the movie release.

In a statement sent to The Independent, Tim Richards, founder and CEO of Vue International said: “We’re seeing incredible demand in the UK for both Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, part of this summer’s wave of blockbusters, and 22 per cent of people who booked tickets to Oppenheimer also booked tickets for Barbie.

“Barbie pre-sales to date are higher than any other blockbuster released this year and we expect this strong demand to continue, putting Barbie on track to become the biggest movie of 2023 in the UK so far.”

Vue added that any Barbie fans who bring a real-life Ken along with them to the cinema chain during the Barbie opening weekend (21 – 23 July) will receive either a free regular Tango Ice Blast or popcorn.

Barbie’s finally here, and with all the buzz leading up to its debut, the box office estimates are all over the place.

It’s expected to make between $95m (£72m) to $110m (£84m) from its opening weekend in 4,200 North American theatres, according to Variety.

However, Warner Bros is playing it safe and estimating a $75m (£57m) start. Meanwhile, there are some estimates out there that are projecting it could make as much as $140m (£107m).

Although, whatever its weekend takings are, they’re still expected to be higher than Oppenheimer’s, which is hoping to earn $50m (£38m) from its opening weekend in 3,600 cinemas.