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Barbie breaks all-time record after dethroning Harry Potter from Warner Bros. top spot

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Updated 15:35 28 Aug 2023 GMT+1Published 15:15 28 Aug 2023 GMT+1

Barbie breaks all-time record after dethroning Harry Potter from Warner Bros. top spot

Greta Gerwig's Barbie continues to break records

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Potterheads look away now as Barbie Land has dethroned Hogwarts and broken a 12-year Warner Bros. record.

You may be a Potter girl but you are now living in a Barbie world as the film continues to pick up accolade, after accolade.

Written and directed by Greta Gerwig, the movie follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) and their perfect world of Barbie Land.

However, this all changes when the pair get a chance to visit to the real world.

The film has been a smash at the box office and has earned Gerwig a place in the history books as it became the highest-grossing movie by a female director.

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Last week it was announced that Barbie surpassed The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest-grossing film of 2023 so far at the domestic box office.

Margot Robbie as Barbie.
Warner Bros.

And now it has gone one step further and smashed a 12-year record that previously belonged to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 to become Warner Bros.' highest grossing movie ever.

The Margot Robbie-led flick has reportedly passed Potter’s $1.342 billion to claim its place as the queen of the Warner Bros. family.

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Being a huge Potter fan, we don't know how Robbie is going to feel about this.

Earlier this month, the actor revealed that she thought she was ‘overselling’ the film when she tried to convince studios Barbie would be a billion-dollar movie.

You may be a Potter girl but you are now living in a Barbie world.
Warner Bros.

In a recent interview with Collider, the Aussie golden girl told studios the film could break box office records if paired with Greta Gerwig.

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“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” she said.

“And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg’ - pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years.

"And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig'.

"And I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?”

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Robbie took a risk that certainly paid off.
Warner Bros.

The Suicide Squad star also revealed that she immediately hit it off with Gerwig.

“She’s brilliant but incapable of being pretentious,” Robbie said.

“I think what I admire so much about her work is that she doesn’t allow herself to create a divide between drama and comedy, and she encourages everyone around her to do the same.

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“So you end up mining places that are in the in-between and it feels very specific to her, but also something that you can relate to because it’s more like life.”

Featured Image Credit: Warner Bros.

Topics: Barbie, Film and TV, Harry Potter, Warner Bros

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish has an MA in Multimedia Journalism and is passionate about delivering sarcastic/mildly amusing content. After studying business at undergrad, Anish realised that he’d much prefer getting paid to rant about a topic, rather than to find a solution to it. Apart from that, he loves the ‘Four F’s’, as he calls it - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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