#51: Barbenheimer Box Office
We usually associate high earnings with being number one at the box office. After all, how can a movie make a lot of money if it wasn’t the most popular movie at the time it was released? There’s a lot of competition out there, after all, to get those moviegoers’ ticket sales.
But it turns out it can happen! In August 2023, Oppenheimer became the highest-grossing film ever to not reach the number one spot—that honor went to the Barbie movie. However, the film eventually beat Barbie and reached #1.