Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory

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Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory - lemm.ee

Why are box office numbers always framed as a competition in the USA? Did I read once that, for example, movies in France report the number of people that attended–not how much money was spent?
It has become an easy way to create a narrative in American movies, especially after Covid cleared the slate on how movies used to perform.

First Oppenheimer, now Blue Beetle.

I still don’t get what my movie has to do with either one of these movies.