EXCLUSIVE – Barbenheimer begins! Barbie fever sweeps the UK today as excitable fans decked in pink hit cinemas from 8am – and one devotee even left home at midnight for the movie marathon

Barbie fever hit the UK today with hundreds of super fans waking up at the crack of dawn to race across the country to catch a glimpse of the first viewings of the much-anticipated films in the capital. 

Greta Gerwig’s satire will go head-to-head in the global box office against Christopher Nolan’s intense drama Oppenheimer, which is about the scientist who first created the atomic bomb. 

The two major titles were released simultaneously today with thousands of fans deciding to buy tickets…