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Barbie vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is a Perfect 2023 Hollywood Microcosm
When all is said and done, the biggest movies of 2023 are going to be based on a 60-year-old doll and a 40-year-old video game. Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have each, in their own unique ways, shown the best of what modern studio filmmaking can be. In an era when name brands…
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Barbie and Oppenheimer’s Box Office Is Proof Studios Need to Make a Fair Deal
Oppenheimer and Barbie opened this weekend, and crossing theatre aisles for both films was a cultural phenomenon; Barbenheimer. Double-billing both films may not have been most people’s cup of tea (and, frankly, I would not recommend it) but both films resonated with audiences, bringing in a total of $US511 million dollars globally opening weekend. That’s not a…
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Ryan Gosling Brings the Kenergy in His Barbie Movie Power Ballad
The wait for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie is almost over and we can hardly wait. We just got a preview of Ryan Gosling’s musical moment—“Just Ken,” which will be featured on Barbie: The Album—to obsess over until July 21. In Barbie, Ken lives for Barbie (Robbie) to just look at him on…
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Greta Gerwig Explains the ‘Long Journey’ to Cast Ryan Gosling as Ken
The lore that’s already been built up around Barbie has taught us that star Margot Robbie was instrumental from the very beginning in bringing the fashionable Mattel doll to the big screen. But apparently, co-star Ryan Gosling — who plays Ken — took a bit more convincing to join the project.