CINEMAS ACROSS IRELAND were thronged with crowds, mostly dressed in pink, as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie had one of the most successful opening weekends of any film in history.

A global opening weekend of $337 million (€307m) was almost enough to leave Oppenheimer in the shadows, even though Christopher Nolan’s biopic on the father of the atom bomb also posted enormous earnings of $174.2m (€157m).

To borrow a cliché, the real winner this weekend was cinema, as many patrons flocked to see both films in a double-bill (a phenomenon colloquially known as ‘Barbenheimer’).

To day we want to know… Did you do ‘Barbenheimer’ this weekend?

Poll Results:

I saw neither (6097)

I saw Oppenheimer (840)

I saw Barbie (579)

I saw both films (342)

I saw both films
I saw Oppenheimer
I saw Barbie
I saw neither

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Poll: Did you do 'Barbenheimer' this weekend?

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