‘Barbie’ Co-Writer Noah Baumbach Initially Thought Film Was a ‘Terrible Idea,’ but Greta Gerwig ‘Signed Me Up’: ‘You’ve Gotta Get Us Out of This’

Billie Eilish has said she thought she’d she’d “hit her peak” and “it was over” before penning her Barbie soundtrack song this summer.Eilish’s song for the soundtrack, ‘What Was I Made For?’ was last week nominated for five Grammys. The track was written by Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas for the soundtrack of Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster. Finneas also produced the song at his home studio in LA.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Eilish said: “I honestly was concerned that it was over for me.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s name graced many a picket sign during the Writers Guild of America’s 148-day strike, with everything from his exec comp to content-cutting choices called out in writers’ anti-Hollywood studios jokes. Now that the work stoppage is over, the writers might consider reexamining their opinion of Zaslav, who concedes the WGA was “right about almost everything.” In a profile published by Wednesday by The New York Times Magazine, Zaslav said he does not regret the concessions that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) made to finally close that tentative deal with the writers union Sept.

The likely pink-hued awards season continues.

Greta Gerwig is opening up about Hollywood.

“Barbie” world at theaters this summer.And now that the Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster has taken over the 2024 Grammys, with multiple “Barbie” soundtrack songs occupying the nominations list — announced Friday morning — it’s as if the Recording Academy is her own personal Dream House.First, there’s Billie Eilish, who not-so-surprisingly scored Record of the Year and Song of the Year nominations for “What Was I Made For?” — among five of her six nods connected to the “Barbie” behemoth.

After the summer blockbuster success of Barbie, fans everywhere are singing “I’m Just Ken” along with Ryan Gosling. Songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt shared how the song evolved into such a power anthem at Deadline’s Sound and Screen event Thursday.

Ryan Gosling’s ‘I’m Just Ken’ song from Barbie has been nominated for a Grammy today.The nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards were shared this afternoon (November 10) with SZA leading the way with nine nominations.The official Grammys YouTube hosted a livestream for the announcement, with the winners set to be announced at the ceremony on February 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. See the full list of nominations here.Among the nominations was Ryan Gosling for his song ‘I’m Just Ken’ that appeared in Greta Gerwig’s hit film Barbie this summer.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Another Warner Bros. movie bites the dust. The studio no longer plans to release “Coyote vs.

William Earl Netflix film chief Scott Stuber once ran Universal Studios – today he sometimes feels like the operator of “the AMC 6000” given the volume of movies that Netflix produces and acquires. From Greta Gerwig’s plans for Narnia adaptations to wooing Denzel Washington and Steven Spielberg, Stuber shared Netflix’s vision of film’s future in a wide-ranging Q&A with Variety executive editor Brent Lang that was held Nov. 8 as part of Variety’s Business Managers Elite Breakfast presented by City National Bank.

After the monster success of “Barbie,” you have to assume that both Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are going to be able to do whatever they want next. Well, for Gerwig, we already know what’s next—she’s doing a series of films for Netflix based on the “Chronicles of Narnia” books.

Barbie screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have shared some of the notes that toy manufacturing company Mattel gave them on their script.The husband and wife filmmaking duo were celebrating the record-breaking blockbuster with author Tony Kushner recently. According to Variety, they revealed that during the movie’s beach battle scene between the feuding Kens, a Mattel exec, led there by CEO Will Ferrell, is shot with a fake arrow.Baumbach (Marriage Story, White Noise) said, “There was a note when we first turned the script.

Russell Brand has been accused of sexual assault by a film extra during the making of his 2010 comedy Arthur.

It’s the question on the lips of countless moviegoers: who will be the next James Bond? Since Daniel Craig took his final bow as 007 in 2021’s “No Time To Die,” there’s been tons of speculation on who will don the spy’s tuxedo and wield his Walther PPK. And despite some clamor for a female Bond, it’s (mostly) British actors who have had rumors swirling about their names.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Barbie” screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach recently joined Tony Kushner (“Angels in America,” “Lincoln”) for a discussion about the record-breaking Warner Bros. blockbuster and revealed one of the first notes Mattel gave them on the script: Please don’t have the Mattel exec stand-in characters be shot. In the third act of “Barbie,” an all-out beach battle takes place between the warring Ken characters.

Barbie star Kingsley Ben-Adir should play the next James Bond, according to director Greta Gerwig.Appearing on Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast to discuss her record-breaking film about the iconic Mattel doll, Gerwig detailed how Ben-Adir was “so funny” in the role of Basketball Ken, while also praising his classical acting skills.Gerwig described the scene near the end of the film where Ryan Gosling’s Ken gifts his faux-fur jacket to Ben-Adir’s Ken, who then turns around to his fellow Kens and delivers an inspiring speech as their apparent new leader.“He can do anything, and is a very proper, trained British actor,” Gerwig said. “He can do the [Laurence] Olivier voice, so we had versions where he turned around and it was British.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor There may not be a funnier moment on screen this year than when Ryan Gosling yells “sublime!” off-screen in Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar box office smash “Barbie.” That’s why Variety Awards Circuit Podcast had a pressing question that needed answering from the filmmaker herself: Who gets the credit for this brilliant moment? “Ryan had the idea of [Ken] having a private moment that she [Barbie] can hear,” Gerwig reveals. “Because, of course, there’s no walls or privacy in Barbie Land. And then I will give myself credit, I came up with ‘sublime.’ I kept thinking, what’s the funniest word? I kept going back to ‘sublime.’ It’s the oddest word.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA partner Jim Meenaghan has decided to step down from his dual roles as the Head of Motion Picture Business Affairs and Co-Head of the Independent Film Group at the end of the year. The details of his departure were revealed in a memo that was recently sent out to staff and obtained by Deadline. Sources add that it was Meenaghan’s decision to leave the agency and a very amicable one as he is very well liked at UTA.

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor Adam Driver, star of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” will travel to Camerimage, the cinematography-oriented film festival, to accept Special EnergaCamerimage Award for an Actor. He will also introduce the film, one of the entries in the Camerimage Main Competition and a prominent awards contender this season. The fest will run in Toruń.

November is here, which means Halloween is over and Maria Carey is busy warming up her vocals, so it’s time to turn our attention to the next big event – Christmas. Although Christmas Day is still a little under two months away, it’s no secret that the festivities start from the very first day of December, including the much-loved Christmas Jumper Day, which this year falls on December 7.

When it was announced that Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig were co-writing “Barbie,” with the latter taking on the directing gig as well, people were confused. Those are not the two names you’d associate with a massive IP-driven blockbuster film.