Photo: sugardesign_1 / emrEHusmen / Instagram
Surprise, surprise – or maybe that's entirely (il)logical, but Warner Bros and Greta Gerwig's Barbie plus Universal and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer are unstoppable at the US and worldwide box office.
After Warner separated from Christopher Nolan, there was a lot of word-of-mouth that the American studio would try to bomb the cinematographer's first endeavor alongside Universal. Whether they wanted that or not, two movies with quirky blockbuster potential landed in cinemas across the US and the world all over the same weekend.
Interestingly, the public's appetite for them was insatiable, and Barbie went on to become the highest box office opening for a movie directed by a lady. At the same time, Oppenheimer posted a stellar result for an R-rated film. Even better, it turned out that they were still unstoppable the second weekend and made their first weekend proud (it was the fourth-best in cinema history!) with significant additional figures.
If you want them, we got them: $93 million for Gerwig's extravaganza (seventh-best ever for a second weekend) and another $46 million for Nolan's interesting gamble about the man that brought us the nuclear bomb – the first R-rated movie to get more than $10 million for ten days after its premiere! As such, are we surprised that the 'Barbenheimer' phenomenon took everything by storm?
Not at all, as even the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has taken ample notice of this incredible pairing. Sure, some of them maybe didn't do it on purpose, but their creations would still look like great additions to the universe created by the cinematographers.
Our first example comes from Sugar Chow, the virtual artist better known as sugardesign_1 on social media, who has paused his Chinese redesigns for a moment and gives us this Shooting Brake hoot based on the Bentley Continental GT and Mulliner Bacalar. It's dark, it's menacing, it's a Bentley 'Hatchback' that has the soul of a Volkswagen Scirocco and would also look great in Oppenheimer if the action took place today instead of during the Second World War.
Secondly, there's also the ensemble effort from digital automotive artist Emre Husmen, simply titled "emrEHusmen" on social media, who allied with Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin, a CGI artist at JLR that also likes to dabble with personal projects. And his latest idea took full advantage of Husmen's widebody kit car design to ensure his version is prim and proper for all Barbies and Kens of the world.
But why is it for both? Well, simply because we are dealing with a limousine rather than a pink Corvette – a dual-tone black-and-pink take on the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class redubbed as the 'Maybach-AMG S900.' It's a high-performance sedan mixing luxury with sportiness, indeed. Plus, it has the necessary aerodynamic enhancements and rides like a CGI charm on black 'steelie' aftermarket aero-style wheels. So, which one is your digital favorite?
Interestingly, the public's appetite for them was insatiable, and Barbie went on to become the highest box office opening for a movie directed by a lady. At the same time, Oppenheimer posted a stellar result for an R-rated film. Even better, it turned out that they were still unstoppable the second weekend and made their first weekend proud (it was the fourth-best in cinema history!) with significant additional figures.
If you want them, we got them: $93 million for Gerwig's extravaganza (seventh-best ever for a second weekend) and another $46 million for Nolan's interesting gamble about the man that brought us the nuclear bomb – the first R-rated movie to get more than $10 million for ten days after its premiere! As such, are we surprised that the 'Barbenheimer' phenomenon took everything by storm?
Not at all, as even the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has taken ample notice of this incredible pairing. Sure, some of them maybe didn't do it on purpose, but their creations would still look like great additions to the universe created by the cinematographers.
Our first example comes from Sugar Chow, the virtual artist better known as sugardesign_1 on social media, who has paused his Chinese redesigns for a moment and gives us this Shooting Brake hoot based on the Bentley Continental GT and Mulliner Bacalar. It's dark, it's menacing, it's a Bentley 'Hatchback' that has the soul of a Volkswagen Scirocco and would also look great in Oppenheimer if the action took place today instead of during the Second World War.
Secondly, there's also the ensemble effort from digital automotive artist Emre Husmen, simply titled "emrEHusmen" on social media, who allied with Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin, a CGI artist at JLR that also likes to dabble with personal projects. And his latest idea took full advantage of Husmen's widebody kit car design to ensure his version is prim and proper for all Barbies and Kens of the world.
But why is it for both? Well, simply because we are dealing with a limousine rather than a pink Corvette – a dual-tone black-and-pink take on the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class redubbed as the 'Maybach-AMG S900.' It's a high-performance sedan mixing luxury with sportiness, indeed. Plus, it has the necessary aerodynamic enhancements and rides like a CGI charm on black 'steelie' aftermarket aero-style wheels. So, which one is your digital favorite?
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