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The Barbenheimer’s box office dominion does not extend to China, it seems.

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie released in China Friday to considerable fanfare, but its pink appeal is proving no match for a slew of local Chinese blockbusters. The Warner Bros. comedy-fantasy is on track to finish its opening day in China in sixth place, having earned only $960,000 (Rmb 6.9 million) as of 6:30 p.m. local time.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, meanwhile, has been approved by China’s censors for release, but regulators have yet to assign it a release date. Any China launch for the Universal Pictures historical thriller is now likely at least a month away.

The soft start for Barbie continues a trend of Hollywood films earning much less in China than they once did. Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One badly lost its opening weekend in the country last weekend, debuting...

Excluding China, ’Dead Reckoning Part One’ has delivered the biggest international opening for the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise.

Worldwide box office Jul 14-16 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount)

$211.2m $235m $155m $155m 71 2. Never Say Never (various) $45.9m $207.6m $45.9m $207.6m 1 3. Chang An San Wan Li (various) $43.8m $94.9m $43.8m $94.9m 1 4. Elemental (Disney) $36.9m $311.7m $28.2m $186.4m 52 5. Insidious: The Red Door (Sony) $34.5m $122.6m $21.5m $64.5m 58 6. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (Disney) $29m $302.4m $17m $157m 53 7. Sound Of Freedom (Angel) $27m $85.5m -...