Ryan Gosling reacts to Barbie Oscar snub, says he’s disappointed that Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig weren’t nominated. The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced earlier today, and as with every year, they came complete with a few surprises and a few snubs. One Oscar snub in particular seems to be rubbing folks … Read more
Sharon Stone was “laughed” at by studio executives when she pitched a Barbie movie in the 1990s. The Basic Instinct actress recalled how film chiefs poured scorn on her idea for a film about the iconic toy doll and is grateful for the changes that have happened in Hollywood that led to Margot Robbie’s hugely … Read more
Margot Robbie remains skeptical that Barbie 2 could — or should — happen, saying people care too much about sequels. She’s a Barbie girl in a Barbie world…But don’t expect that world to expand, as Margot Robbie has passively dismissed Barbie 2, even if the first movie was the highest-grossing movie of last year. Robbie … Read more
Hi Barbie. Given the fact that it was the #1 movie of 2023 in theaters — grossing an incredible $1.4 billion worldwide — most of you reading this have probably already seen Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Maybe you saw it more than once. Probably a few of you saw it upwards of five times. If you didn’t see … Read more
Barbie star/producer Margot Robbie refused to move the film’s release date, standing up to the producer of Oppenheimer. Barbenheimer was one of the top pop culture stories of 2023, an oddball situation where Greta Gerwig’s pink-plastered Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic Oppenheimer were released on the same day. Whether you were Team Mattel or … Read more
Zack Snyder reacts to the Snyder-Cut joke in Barbie, says that Warner Bros.’ Michael DeLuca gave them the heads-up. You might not have expected the biggest movie of the year to include a reference to Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but Barbie did exactly that. After the Barbie’s wake up from the patriarchy brought to Barbie-land, … Read more
The top-grossing movie of 2023 in the United States and around the world wasn’t Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. It wasn’t The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It wasn’t the live-action version of The Little Mermaid. It wasn’t Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. It wasn’t Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny or Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. It wasn’t even The Flash. (Okay, it definitely … Read more
Barbie star Margot Robbie doesn’t anticipate a sequel, saying director Greta Gerwig “put everything” into the film. Pink turned green in a major way this summer when Barbie proved to be a dreamhouse-sized hit with audiences, raking in $636 million domestically to easily become the highest-grossing film of the year. On top of that, its … Read more
Not only did Black Harvest Film Festival feature a band of boundary pushing features, there were also smart, imaginative shorts too. Tari Wariebi’s “We Were Meant To,” which initially premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2023, comes out of the AFI Conservatory. The film elegantly mixes fable with political subtext through a community of Black men … Read more
Noah Baumbach thought that Barbie was a terrible idea. The 54-year-old screenwriter co-wrote the smash hit movie with his partner Greta Gerwig but explained that he initially suspected that the project would be a failure. Speaking at a screening at the Writers Guild of America West, Noah said: “I thought it was a terrible idea … Read more