Barbie‘s still big!
31.08.2023 - 21:19 / nme.com
Barbie is set to land on streaming services very soon.Directed by Greta Gerwig, the fantasy comedy starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling has become the highest-grossing film ever in Warner Bros. history. It’s also on track to beat The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest-grossing film of 2023 globally.While the film is largely defined by its two leads, it also boasts an impressive supporting cast, including America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Simu Liu and Will Ferrell.Barbie released on the same day (July 21) as Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, creating the “Barbenheimer” phenomena which boosted both film’s at the box office.Barbie is set to be released digitally in the US on Tuesday September 5.
A UK release date has yet to be announced, although you can pre-order it on Amazon UK for £19.99.Judging by past releases, it’s likely to be available in the UK later in the same month. Although, with the film’s continued box office success, Warner Bros. might consider pushing it back until a later date.
We will update this page when a date is confirmed.The film will be available to rent or buy across various retailers including Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft Store, Apple TV+ and others. In the US, Barbie is set to arrive on HBO streaming service Max in the fall, according to CEO David Zaslav (via Deadline).Recently, Warner Bros. released a behind-the-scenes video of Gosling performing the track ‘I’m Just Ken’ from the film – featuring appearances from Mark Ronson and Slash.In a four-star review, 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.
Barbie‘s still big!
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film continues to smash box office records around the globe and has now taken another that was previously held by Marvel’s The Avengers.As per Variety, by the end of this weekend, the film will have grossed over $623million (£502million) at the domestic box office in the US, meaning it will have surpassed Marvel’s The Avengers. As noted on Screen Rant, this then makes Barbie the 11th highest grossing movie of all time in North America.Other achievements of the film include a global box office earning of more than $1billion (£807million).Mattel meanwhile expects Barbie to contribute over $125million (£100million) in gross billings to the company this year.Anthony DiSilvestro, chief financial officer at Mattel, shared the number during the Goldman Sachs media conference earlier this month (September 7).
Margot Robbie has joined her fellow actors at the picket line in show of her support for the SAG-AFTRA strikes in LA.The Barbie star took part in the SAG-AFTRA rally from Netflix Studios to Paramount Studios on Wednesday (August 13). She was seen wearing an oversized t-shirt which read: “SAG-AFTRA ON STRIKE!,” and also held up a black, white and yellow sign with the same message.READ MORE: Hollywood on strike! Every question about the actor and writer protests answeredSpotted directly behind Robbie at the rally was fellow Australian actress Samara Weaving, who was holding the same sign.The SAG-AFTRA union, which consists of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, announced its strike in July after contract negotiations broke down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), who represent major studios like Netflix, Disney, Apple, Amazon, Warner Bros.
Barbie star Margot Robbie has opened up about the inspiration behind Kate McKinnon’s Weird Barbie.McKinnon’s zanily dressed character was one of the many iterations of the doll seen in the Greta Gerwig satirical comedy, which recently became the highest-grossing film of 2023.In a new featurette for the film (via Entertainment Weekly), Robbie provided some background detail on the character, noting that she was partly inspired by David Bowie.“Greta described Weird Barbie in the script as a cross between David Bowie and a hairless cat,” she said. “It is so strangely accurate.”Gerwig added: “Weird Barbie is truly the Barbie you’d play with too much.
Barbie has been dethroned from the top of the UK and Ireland box office after six weeks.As reported by ScreenDaily, The Equalizer 3 starring Denzel Washington took the number one spot in its opening weekend (September 1-3), taking “just shy” of £2million.Barbie fell to second place with takings of £1.6million in its seventh weekend, a 16 per cent drop from the week prior. The film has grossed £92.6million in total in the UK, beating Avengers: Endgame (£88.7million) to become the seventh highest-grossing film of all time in the territory.Others in the top five for the weekend include Oppenheimer (£960,300), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (£619,000) and Sound Of Freedom (£589,456).Barbie had a longer run at the UK box office compared to the US, where DC superhero film Blue Beetle managed to dethrone the film at the top after four weeks.Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy recently became the highest-grossing movie of the year, beating The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Oppenheimer and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.3.
Barbie, Oppenheimer has similarly become one of the highest-grossing movies of the year.Directed by Christopher Nolan, the historical drama about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is (at the time of writing) the third highest-grossing movie of 2023, behind Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.Cillian Murphy leads the cast as Oppenheimer, who oversees studies into the first nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project.
both were scheduled to drop nationwide on Oct. 13, horror mega-producer Jason Blum decided to move up the film’s release to avoid any “Bad Blood” with Swift.“Look what you made me do,” tweeted Blum, 54, referencing one of Swift’s hits.
Though Labor Day is upon us domestically — and its somewhat equivalents in many overseas markets to mark the end of summer — the hits keep coming as holds this session were strong on the season’s leaders while a new entry surprised. To wit, and starting with the latter: Sony/Escape Artists’ The Equalizer 3 blazed to a $60.6M global start this weekend, to clock the franchise’s best opening ever. Of that, the $26.1M debut in 49 international box office markets was also a new record bow for the Denzel Washington-led series.
The two seemingly unstoppable phenoms of summer 2023 are each setting new milestones this weekend as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie through Friday has become the No.1 film of the year globally, overtaking The Super Mario Bros Movie with $1.365B. In the same breath, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer this frame is continuing its incredible run with the Universal title set to pass $850M globally through Sunday. This will see it surpass the filmmaker’s 2010 Inception as his 3rd highest-grossing title ever worldwide.
Billie Eilish has become the latest artist to receive a BRIT Billion Award by the BPI.The BRIT Billion award celebrates Eilish surpassing the landmark of one billion career UK streams – as calculated by the Official Charts Company. Her Grammy Award-winning hit ‘Bad Guy’ has over 300million UK streams, while six of her other tracks top 100million U.K.
EXCLUSIVE: Besides sweeping the U.S. — and the world — this summer’s blockbuster phenom Barbie introduced fans to the creator of the hugely popular doll, Ruth Handler, who was played in the movie by Rhea Perlman. A potential TV series looks to go deeper into Handler’s story.
Barbie is no longer holding the box office crown.
Barbie has become the highest-grossing movie in Warner Bros. history.Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy passed the $1.342billion mark at the global box office on Monday (August 28), beating Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 to become the company’s highest-grossing film ever, not adjusted for inflation.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Barbie is set to become only the 13th movie in history to cross the $600million mark at the US box office later this week.
Margot Robbie had a failed audition for American Horror Story: Asylum, it’s been revealed.In an interview with Backstage, AHS casting director Eric Dawson said that Robbie’s audition for an unknown role — which many fans believe to be Lizzie Brochere’s Grace — is one of his favourite auditions ever.“Margot has a lot of ‘it’ factors. That’s the tough thing for casting directors who aren’t in the room [anymore] with actors,” said Dawson.“Margot is probably one of my favourite auditions of all time, and it was right before she broke out.
Not only can “Barbie” be anything, she can do anything too, so it seems.
J. Kim Murphy As “Barbie” hones in on becoming the highest-grossing release of the year at the domestic box office, Greta Gerwig’s hot pink comedy is about to get even bigger. Warner Bros.
As Barbie becomes the highest grossing film of 2023 today at the domestic box office with north of $574.2M, Warner Bros and Imax have announced that the Greta Gerwig-directed movie is getting a one week release on Sept. 22 in Imax both in North American and selection locations around the world.
The new Barbie movie's popularity has now soared past last year's biggest film. Box office takings in the UK and Ireland have surged past the total for Top Gun: Maverick, new figures have revealed. The fantasy comedy, which stars Margot Robbie as the world-famous Mattel fashion doll, has grossed a mammoth £84.8 million in its first five weeks of release.
Barbie has been released featuring Ryan Gosling performing ‘I’m Just Ken’ – check out the clip below.In the video, unseen footage from filming on Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy is spliced between Gosling’s performance – charting the track’s translation to the screen.Along with Gosling’s co-stars Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa, the video features clips from the recording of ‘I’m Just Ken’, including writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt in the studio, and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash who plays on the song.Check out the behind-the-scenes footage below.Since it was released last month, Barbie has become the second highest-grossing movie of the year so far. It was only recently knocked off the US box office number one spot by Blue Beetle, after it spent four weeks at the top.Earlier this month, Barbie surpassed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight to become the highest-grossing film in Warner Bros.
Blue Beetle has dethroned Barbie at the US box office, ending the film’s four-week reign at the number one spot.As reported by Variety, the DC superhero film took the top spot with a lower-than-expected debut of $25.4million (£19.9million) in the US. Globally, the film earned $43million (£33.7million) in its opening weekend, against a production budget of $104million (£81.7million).Barbie, meanwhile, fell to second place with $21.5million (£16.8million), an impressive amount considering it was released last month.In the US, Barbie is expected to overtake The Super Mario Bros.