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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Elizabeth Gregory

Barbie hits $1 billion: what are the other films in the billion club?

Barbie passed the $1 billion mark over the weekend, making it the second highest-grossing film of the year (following the April-released The Super Mario Bros. Movie).

Greta Gerwig’s plastic fantastic musing on feminism and the patriarchy via Mattel’s famous doll has now become the 53nd film (not taking inflation into consideration) to make a billion dollars worldwide, and it’s already at number 45 on the list, too, sitting above Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and The Dark Knight in the money rankings.

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