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America becomes Barbieland as Barbie topples Mario to become highest-grossing 2023 domestic release

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Welcome to the United States of Barbie as the Greta Gerwig-directed film continues its box office domination. At the time of writing, Barbie is now the highest-grossing 2023 movie at the domestic box office, overtaking The Super Mario Bros. Movie and its impressive haul. After Wednesday, 8/23/23, Barbie will sit at around $574.2M, overtaking Illumination […]

Barbenheimer posts huge second weekend at the box office

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It appears the Barbie has the legs and Oppenheimer‘s blast radius is spreading at the box-office, because Barbenheimer posted huge numbers during their second weekends of release. Greta Gerwig’s existential ensemble comedy once again took the top spot with a whopping take of $93 million between Friday and Sunday. Takings for Barbie dipped a meagre […]

Let’s Go Party! Barbie dances to a record-breaking $155 million opening weekend

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It looks like everyone was seeing pink this weekend. Barbie just strutted to one of the biggest opening weekends ever, with a reported wildly impressive $155 million. That puts the Warner Bros. Discovery and Mattell production as the biggest opening of 2023 so far, topping The Super Mario Bros. Movie‘s $146,361,865 opening weekend. Reports put […]

Barbie & Oppenheimer are already breaking box office records

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This morning it was wonderful to sit in a 10.20am showing of Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic Oppenheimer with barely a seat left in the auditorium, and equally joyous to walk through a foyer filled with excited fans of all ages decked in pink, queuing for Great Gerwig’s Barbie. It’s a scene being reflected at the […]

Movie Review – Barbie (2023)

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Barbie, 2023. Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Hari Nef, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Connor Swindells, Michael Cera, Helen Mirren, Simu Liu, Sharon Rooney, Dua Lipa, John Cena, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, […]

Ryan Gosling gets his own musical number in ‘Just Ken’ Barbie trailer

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With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie finally set to be unboxed in just under two weeks time, Warner Bros. has released a brand new trailer which puts the spotlight on Ryan Gosling’s forlorn figure of Ken. The trailer gives the La La Land star the opportunity to flex those vocal chords once again as he sings about […]

Greta Gerwig to write and direct at least two Chronicles of Narnia films for Netflix

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Once Greta Gerwig has put the toys away following the kid-at-Christmas excitement for her latest directorial effort Barbie, the Oscar-nominated Little Women helmer will once again pick up a book to write-and-direct at least two films based on C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix.  According to an article in The New Yorker, […]

Margot Robbie’s Barbie goes to jail in new official trailer

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Between Suicide Squad and now Barbie, you can’t keep Margot Robbie’s movie characters out of jail. But this time, our blonde bombshell was wrongly imprisoned alongside her beau Ken after a stranger assaulted Barbie. It seems like that happens when Barbie enters the real world, and we get our first glimpse at what this Greta […]

Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie gets a trailer and huge batch of character posters

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Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated live-action Barbie feature, along with a huge batch of character posters which put the spotlight on the different variations of Barbie and Ken, their friends Allan and Midge, and the movie’s real-world characters; check them out here… Directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women), […]