Madrid, Jul 22 (EFE).- A total of 500,000 spectators attended Spanish cinemas on the most movie-going Friday since 2019, with “Barbie” at the forefront and in combination with “Oppenheimer”, a phenomenon dubbed “Barbenheimer” that has pushed the box office to accumulate 5 million euros since its premiere on Thursday.
According to data from Comscore Spain released this Saturday on Twitter, “Barbie”, the version with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (Barbie and Ken) of the presumed life of the most famous doll in the world, accumulates 3.5 million of the 5 collected.
Its world premiere coincided with that of a very different film, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” a three-hour film that tells the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role as developer of the atomic bomb.
This phenomenon, which has been called “Barbenheimer”, has generated great publicity and networking expectations that has been accompanied by the quality of both films, each one in its genre.
In its premiere on Thursday, “Barbie” swept the Spanish box office with 1.8 million euros collected, well ahead of “Oppenheimer”, also released a day earlier than usual, which, with its three-hour duration, achieved 100,000 viewers and a collection of 667,000 euros.
They were followed by “Elemental”, which premiered the previous Friday, “Insidious: The Red Door” and “Vacaciones de verano”, by Santiago Segura, on the bill since last July 6.
The list of most viewed tapes continued with “Mission Impossible: Deadly Judgment. Part 1”, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate”, “Spider-Man: Across the Multiverse” and “I am madly loving you”. The children’s film “The Little Mermaid” closes the list in tenth place, in theaters since the end of May.