Margot Robbie is perhaps seeking to purchase a model new Malibu dream home, after which some. In line with Selection, Robbie stands to make roughly $50 million on Barbie, between her wage and field workplace bonuses resulting from her twin function as star and producer.
Robbie’s large payday is as a result of unbelievable success of the movie, which acquired off to a smashing begin as one half of the “Barbenheimer” craze. Up to now, Barbie has earned $526.3 million on the home field workplace and $657.6 million on the worldwide field workplace for a grand complete of roughly $1.18 billion globally, and it’s nonetheless going. Over the weekend, Barbie grew to become the second highest-grossing movie in Warner Bros. historical past, simply behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Half 2 (2011), which made roughly $1.3 billion. It is also formally made Greta Gerwig the best grossing feminine director of all time, surpassing Frozen, which was co-directed by Jennifer Lee.
On prime of starring in Barbie, Robbie’s manufacturing firm, LuckyChap, which she based in 2014 with Josey McNamara, Sophia Kerr and her husband Tom Ackerley, produced the movie, so Robbie stands to make a killing on field workplace bonuses as properly. Robbie was hands-on as a producer, rescuing the mission from ten years of developmental hell by re-pitching it to studios and convincing Gerwig to return on board to direct. In her pitch, Robbie famous that Barbie had the potential to be a giant success, saying that the movie might make $1 billion. “I believe I instructed them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which perhaps I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make, okay?!” stated Robbie in an interview with Collider.
Barbie additionally provides one other feather to Robbie’s cap as an actress, which incorporates celebrated turns in movies like The Wolf of Wall Road, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, and an Oscar nomination for I, Tonya. As a producer, Robbie’s LuckyChap has been behind Birds of Prey, Netflix’s Maid, and the Oscar-winning Promising Younger Girl. Simply final 12 months, some people on the web thought-about Robbie “field workplace poison” resulting from her main function in two back-to-back flops, David O. Russell’s Amsterdam and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Clearly, that they had no thought what Robbie and Barbie have been able to.
