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'Barbie' Makes Greta Gerwig 1st Female Director with Billion-Dollar Movie (www.tmz.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Amarok@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Greta Gerwig is in a league of her own as the first solo female director whose movie has made $1 billion.

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Inflation gets some of the credit.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's kinda true of every movie after the first one though.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yup.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is sort of true, but even adjusted for inflation its performance is obscene.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjusted/?adjust_gross_to=2019

For example, Barbie has already close to tied with Toy Story 4, which puts it somewhere in the top 150 inflation-adjusted film grosses of all time. It's probably already at 3-4x what A League of their Own managed, which I think was the previous highest-grossing movie from a woman adjusted for inflation, though I am not actually sure that is right.

I'd bet she's holding the record for highest grossing movie directed by a woman any way you measure it.

And it's still gaining 1st run sales.