‘Gran Turismo’ Barely Beats ‘Barbie’ at Box Office, 2nd Time In a Row

‘Barbie’ has been crushed out for the second weekend in a row — however not by a lot … if something, her rivals are barely squeaking by — which says so much about this juggernaut.

The field workplace numbers are in, and the newest large film to hit theaters this weekend was “Gran Turismo” — the movie primarily based on the online game, which chronicles the true story about how a gamer changed into an expert race automobile driver … all from selecting up a controller.

The film — starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour and Orlando Bloom — took first place, raking in solely $17.3 million domestically … this simply forward of ‘Barbie’s’ $17.1 mil.

What that tells you … individuals are nonetheless flocking to see Margot Robbie and co., even 5 weeks later. In different phrases, ‘Barbie’ has lots of endurance — and it continues to dominate.

Final week, WB’s different launch — the superhero flick ‘Blue Beetle’ — was the primary to dethrone ‘Barbie’ from the highest spot … however, once more, it did so by a hair. ‘BB’ made simply $25 million or so throughout its debut weekend, solely $4M-$5M greater than ‘Barbie’ did that very same weekend.

So, even then … ‘Barbie’ nonetheless carried out fairly effectively, and that is prone to be the case for these subsequent few weeks.

The speedy upcoming blockbusters that’ll have a shot at ‘Barbie’ embody … Denzel in ‘The Equalizer 3’ (Sep. 1), ‘My Huge Fats Greek Wedding ceremony 3’ and ‘The Nun II (Sep. 8) and at last … ‘A Haunting in Venice’ (Sep. 15). After that, there will be much more heavyweights heading into October … which is able to virtually definitely knock ‘Barbie’ down a number of pegs within the rankings.

Backside line right here is fairly easy … ‘Barbie’ has confirmed to be the smash hit of the 12 months (so far), and it is rolling within the dough after which some because it continues to draw ticket gross sales. No phrase when it will be on streaming providers — at this fee, Warner should not be in a rush.