BARBIE has joined the billion-dollar movie club — becoming the first film solely directed by a woman to do so.
Greta Gerwig’s pink-drenched blockbuster has dazzled at the box office, hitting the milestone in just 17 days.
Barbie has joined the billion-dollar movie club
Greta Gerwig is one of just 29 solo directors to surpass the coveted milestone – and the only woman on the list
Distributor Warner Bros revealed the film finished the weekend with $1.03billion (£808million) in ticket sales worldwide.
It makes Gerwig, 40, one of just 29 solo directors to surpass the coveted milestone — and the only woman on the list.
Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros’ president of domestic distribution in the US, said: “No one but Greta could have brought this cross-generational icon and her world to life in such a funny, emotional and entertaining story . . . literally turning the entire world pink.”
Fans have flocked to cinemas since the movie’s release last month to watch Margot Robbie, 33, and Ryan Gosling, 42, take on the roles of Barbie and her boyfriend Ken.
Robbie even revealed in an interview she had told producers the film would crack the billion-dollar mark.
She said: “I told them it’d make a billion. Maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, OK.”
Margot Robbie predicted that the film would make £1 billion before it had even hit the cinemas
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