Barbie
Greta Gerwig Named Cannes Jury President for 2024
Greta Gerwig is hitting the Croisette. The Barbie helmer, fresh off her first-ever best director nomination at the Golden Globes (Gerwig’s $1.4 billion toy-to-screen blockbuster picked up a total of 9 Golden Globe noms), has been confirmed as the Jury President for the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival. “A heroine of our modern times, Greta […]
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‘Barbie’ Leads Critics Choice Film Nominations With 18 Nods
Barbie leads the 2024 Critics Choice film nominations, with 18 nods, it was announced today. Oppenheimer and Poor Things scored the second most nominations with 13 nods each, followed by Killers of the Flower Moon, which landed 12 nominations. Barbie, Oppenheimer, Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon are all up for best picture, […]
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2023
A romantic collision of past and present, a subversive feminist fairy tale, a metaphysical ghost story, an epic retelling of a horrific footnote in American history and a sublime anti-rom-com are among this year’s highlights.
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Anne Hathaway Says It’s a “Lucky Thing” Her ‘Barbie’ Movie Never Got Made
Anne Hathaway said it was “lucky” that her Barbie film never got made, given that Greta Gerwig’s movie “hit a bullseye.” In 2017, it was revealed that the Eileen star was attached to Sony’s Barbie film after Amy Schumer dropped out of the project citing “scheduling conflicts” at the time. Though it was set for a May […]
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Billion-Dollar Blockbuster ‘Barbie’ Will Be Available to Stream Online in American Sign Language Soon
Greta Gerwig's record-breaking film starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken is also on sale when you buy it on DVD or Blu-ray — plus, shop the best movie-inspired gifts.
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Hollywood Strikers, Barbie, Taylor Swift Among Time “Person of the Year” Finalists
Hollywood has a strong presence on the shortlist for Time‘s 2023 Person of the Year. The magazine and global media brand announced the finalists for its annual Person of the Year Monday morning. The 2023 honoree will be officially announced Wednesday morning. Among the finalists this year are the Hollywood strikers at the WGA and […]
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Issa Rae Says People Call Her “President Barbie” on the Street
Issa Rae’s tenure as President Barbie didn’t end when the film finished production. The actress stopped by The View on Wednesday during which she discussed the success of Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking summer blockbuster that Rae starred in. “People will call me President Barbie when I’m just out on the street,” Rae said on the daytime […]
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Read Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s Intro for Official ‘Barbie’ Screenplay Book Release (Exclusive)
Hot off the success of the Barbie movie, Mattel and Warner Bros. are releasing the official Barbie movie screenplay, as written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. Published by Faber & Faber, the Barbie screenplay will be available as a paperback book that features an exclusive introduction from Gerwig and Baumbach, and eight pages of […]
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‘Barbie’ Scoring Duo Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt Say “It Was Never in the Script That Ryan [Gosling] Was Going to Sing”
Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt couldn’t have guessed their first time scoring a film together would be the biggest movie of the year. For the duo, working with A-list artists — such as Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Adele, Lorde and Bruno Mars — is nothing new. And Ronson had even previously scored a film […]
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Greta Gerwig, Roger Ross Williams, Cord Jefferson, Nicolas Cage to Receive SFFILM Awards
Barbie director Greta Gerwig, filmmakers Roger Ross Williams and Cord Jefferson and Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage are set to receive honors at the SFFILM Awards Night on Dec. 4 in San Francisco, organizers said on Wednesday. The event honors achievement in film and its fundraising proceeds support the organization’s mission to “discover, nurture and showcase […]
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2023 Gotham Awards: ‘Past Lives’ Wins Best Feature
Past Lives took the top prize at the 2023 Gotham Awards on Monday night, with the film that went into the night up for three awards winning best feature. Fellow three-time and best feature nominee A Thousand and One picked up the breakthrough director award, in the all-female category, as helmer A.V. Rockwell gave an […]
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Greta Gerwig to Receive Director of the Year Award at Palm Springs Film Fest
Barbie director Greta Gerwig will receive the Director of the Year Award at the 2024 Palm Springs International Film Fest. The film awards will take place on Jan. 4, with the festival running through Jan. 15. Past recipients of the award include Jane Campion, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve McQueen, Alexander Payne, Sarah Polley, Jason Reitman, […]
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