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
John Carpenter doesn’t understand how you can screw up The Exorcist: Believer & adds his thoughts on the biggest movie of the year: Barbie. It’s safe to say that David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer hasn’t received the best reviews, but what does John Carpenter think? Before helming The Exorcist: Believer, David Gordon Green directed … Read more
The original script for Barbie was 147 pages long and Mattel Films head Robbie Brenner didn’t quite know what to make of it. Barbie currently stands as the highest-grossing movie of the year with $1.38 billion worldwide, but few imagined that the film would be that successful. According to an article from The New York … Read more
In an incredibly tight race, Gran Turismo narrowly edged out Barbie for the top spot at the domestic box office, $17.3 million to $17.1M, per Deadline. Granted, the racing drama benefited from advanced previews, but it takes the podium for now. The Neill Blomkamp-directed pic comes in at the lower end of video game adaptations, … Read more
Gran Turismo pulled ahead of Barbie by just $200,000. However National Cinema Day could still see the iconic doll land in first place when all is said and done. With unofficial numbers rolling in, the studios have called this final week of the 2023 summer movie season for Gran Turismo with an estimated take of … Read more