‘Barbenheimer’ smashes records in struggling Hollywood
US crowds flocked to “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” but fears are growing for the future of the movie industry hit by the pandemic, streaming and now strikes.
Los Angeles | The film industry’s happiest weekend in a long time may also be its last happy weekend for many months.
With the dual opening of Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s comedy based on the Mattel doll, and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a biopic about the mastermind behind the atomic bomb, the pop culture phenomenon of “Barbenheimer” is upon us.
