Barbieland or Hogwarts? ‘Barbie’ Officially Passes ‘Harry Potter’ as Warner Bros. Discovery’s Highest-Grossing Global Release

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Moviegoers are swapping out the Hogwarts train for a pink Corvette zooming right into Barbieland.

Just over a month after Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie was released in theaters, it surpassed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 as Warner Bros. Discovery’s highest-grossing global release in history, according to Variety.

The final installment of the Harry Potter franchise has maintained itself as the production company’s top earner since it was released in 2011 — that is, until Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling came along.

Barbie — in which the two actors lead the star-studded cast — raked in another $18.2 million over the weekend in 75 international territories, pushing its worldwide profit to a whopping $1.34 billion, per Variety. Plus, if Barbie keeps it up, it will likely bypass The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the No. 1 film of 2023 at the global box office.

Robbie — who, aside from playing “Stereotypical Barbie,” is also a producer of the film — is probably not all that surprised by all the records it’s breaking. In fact, she predicted early on that it would make $1 billion at the box office.

'Barbie'
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“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” she previously told Collider. “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that — pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years.”

She continued, “And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’ And I think I told them that it’d make $1 billion, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?!”

The film — which was released in late July — follows Barbie (Robbie) and Ken (Gosling) as they venture out on a journey of self-discovery in the human world. When Ken realizes just how much men are valued in a patriarchal-based society, he throws things for a loop back in Barbieland when he “educates” the other Kens on the patriarchy, leaving all the Barbies to band together to get back what was originally theirs.

Barbie is currently playing in theaters. Plus, it will become available to purchase on digital platforms like Amazon, Vudu, YouTube or Apple on Tuesday, Sept. 5.