The film festivals can always be counted on to deliver surprise hits at this time of year, but meanwhile Hollywood must deal with another issue: Its Barbitude hangover.
15.08.2023 - 14:49 / nme.com
Margot Robbie, the star and co-producer of Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie, is set to earn around $50million (£39.2million) for the film.As reported by Variety, Barbie has made $1.18billion (£930million) globally, making it the second highest-grossing film in Warner Bros.’ history and the highest-grossing film ever from a female director. The film earned $356.2million (£279.7million) during its opening weekend.Due to the film being a box office hit, Robbie is set to earn roughly $50million through her salary and box office bonuses for her role.
Gerwig is also likely to receive bonuses due to the film’s outsized success.Barbie was produced by Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, which focuses on promoting women’s stories and female creators in the industry. Other projects the company has produced include the Oscar-winning film Promising Young Woman, Birds Of Prey, and the critically acclaimed Netflix miniseries Maid.Robbie was a full supporter of the film from the start, previously recalling in an interview with Collider how she told Warner Bros.
she was confident that the film would hit the billion dollar mark. “I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, ok?!,” she said.In a four-star review of Barbie, NME wrote: “What follows is a nuanced, rose-tinted comedy adventure, set to a stonking pop soundtrack featuring Lizzo and Billie Eilish, that somehow lives up to the immense hype.
The film festivals can always be counted on to deliver surprise hits at this time of year, but meanwhile Hollywood must deal with another issue: Its Barbitude hangover.
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Barbie star Margot Robbie has been offered £250,000 by a company wanting to sell pictures of her feet.In a letter to the Australian actor, the creator of Fun with Feet proposed the idea of creating Barbie-themed foot content, offering Robbie a quarter of a million pounds as a starting bonus.The platform owner, a woman named Liz, wrote in the letter (via Perth Now): “My name is Liz and I make thousands selling feet pics on Fun With Feet… I also look a lot like you.“Barbie is all women, but we really are Barbie – Stereotypical Barbie, anyway.“I would love to collaborate with you on some Barbie-inspired content that’ll earn us both millions. Plus, Fun with Feet is offering to pay you £250K as a starting bonus.
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Margot Robbie is reportedly set to have a big pay day.
Margot Robbie is making big bucks for her smash hit Mattel movie, Barbie.
Margot Robbie is being richly rewarded for her key role in bringing “Barbie” to the big screen. The star and producer behind the summer’s biggest hit stands to make roughly $50 million in salary and box office bonuses, according to three individuals with knowledge of her deal.
Margot Robbie has revealed that she wasn’t the first choice to play the lead role in Barbie.The actor, who was also a producer on the movie, recently told Vogue that both her and director Greta Gerwig initially wanted Gal Gadot for the role but scheduling conflicts got in the way.“Gal Gadot is Barbie energy. Because Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Given the $1 billion success of “Barbie,” it’s hard to picture anyone in the title role other than Margot Robbie. But the actor explained to Vogue back in May that it was actually Gal Gadot who was her first choice to star as Barbie. Robbie is a producer on “Barbie” and did not immediately envision herself in the role.
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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains spoilers from “Barbie” which is now playing in theaters. The yellow dress Margot Robbie’s wears in Barbie’s final scenes was designed to represent change, says the film’s costume designer Jacqueline Durran. By the end of the Greta Gerwig blockbuster, Barbie has been transformed by the Real World. She’s become flat-footed, broken the patriarchy and all zen has been restored in Barbieland.