Its been another busy one. Have a good weekend. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes. The headlines tonight willettss woes, as the reigning masters champion looks set to miss the cut. Meanwhile, Sergio Garcia is the Clubhouse Leader in augusta, on four under par. Rodgers commits his future to celtic, signing a four year deal as manager of the scottish champions. And Great Britain are one defeat away from going out of the davis cup in the quarter finals. So a busy day of sport. Lets start with golf, and the masters is well into its second day in augusta. And the course is really testing even the very best, including englands reigning champion, danny willett, who is on the verge of missing the cut, after a horror story eight on the first hole. Spains ryder cup stalwart Sergio Garcia has been the days big winner. He is in the clubhouse on four under par, joint leader so far after a second round of 69, in a three way tie for the lead with americans Charley Hoffman and
both movies on the same day. barbie and oppenheimer. barbie did beat oppenheimer at the weekend box office 337 million world wide opening weekend. oppenheimer came in 174 million. good news for hollywood, week three of the actor strike and what was interesting, barbie is now number one for 2023, edging out super mario brothers. the movie broke record female director who has brought us this incredibly pink movie. la ladies, and on, our friends dressed up, wore jackets and took kids, let s have fun.
was always expected to do well. globally it s estimated to have made around $337 million during its opening weekend. in north america, barbie made $155 million alone, which makes it the fourth highest grossing film debut ever in the north american market. it s only behind two instalments of the avengers franchise and a star wars film. oppenheimer also delivered, it made $174 million worldwide, which was much higher than it was expected to rake in. earlier, i spoke to orlando parfitt, senior online editor at screen international magazine. he said it s been an exceptional weekend. in the uk, the uk box office had its biggest weekend in over four years, so the biggest weekend since cinemas were shut for covid. another good stat, i guess, is that never in the history of hollywood have two films opened with one making more than 100 million, and one making more than 50 million. so what is interesting about this,
i tried to get tickets, but everything in d.c. has been sold out. i did not plan ahead. there you go. worldwide box office numbers there. $337 million for barbie. $174 million for oppenheimer. i saw it at 10:00 a.m. on a friday. i was wondering where you were. it was one of the theaters that served beer and food. beer at 10:30. it lived up to the hype. cillian murphy is truly spectacular. the cast was great. it was it s probably christopher nolan s best film, and he s had quite a few. what does it say that you chose oppenheimer and you chose barbie ? if you know us i would have that s off the board. it s how it was going to break down. we ll have more on a blockbuster weekend that may have saved the
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