Comscore says that this past week was the best ever at the box office in the UK and Ireland. Between July 21 and 27, a total of £66,373,575 was made from all movies.
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The accomplishment has been helped by the Barbenheimer phenomenon, in which Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer caught
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The public's attention in a way that few movie pairings have ever done. Both started over the weekend.
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To reach the milestone, this past week has passed the period of December 18–24, 2015, when tickets for The Force Awakens helped bring in a total of £58,618,154.
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Barbie made an estimated £18.5M in its first weekend, and Oppenheimer made £10.9M.
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This was the first time that two movies started with more than £10M each in the UK.
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Mission: Impossible was the third best movie over the past week. It made £2.8 million over the weekend, but Barbenheimer made the most money at the UK box office.
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The great return was helped by the fact that bigger presentations like IMAX, which cost more than normal screenings, were very popular.
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