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Mattel is staying in the film business. 

Ryan Gosling has arrived.

J. Kim Murphy “Barbie” has earned the first-ever Golden Globe award for cinematic and box office achievement. The Warner Bros.

Barbie is an original screenplay, not an adapted screenplay, claims director/producer Judd Apatow.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content “Do you guys ever think about dying?” asks the titular toy at the center of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s inventive and ambitious screenplay for the mega-hit comedy “Barbie.” In their yarn, the virus of death awareness is planted in Barbie World by a daydreaming Mattel employee named Gloria, who randomly sketches Thoughts of Impending Death Barbie at work one day, thus triggering the tale of the famed doll’s journey from plastic prop to self-empowered woman. I wasn’t daydreaming, but I was casually musing out loud on X, formerly known as Twitter, after my first viewing of “Barbie” about how the film seemed heavily influenced by a book I first read 50 years ago: Ernest Becker’s 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner, “The Denial of Death.” For the uninitiated, Becker’s central thesis is summarized in “Death” as “the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity — activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.” I quickly got a private message from documentary filmmaker Laura Dunn.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Greta Gerwig‘s blockbuster comedy “Barbie” has been deemed an adapted screenplay by the Writers Branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, despite campaigning for original screenplay, Variety has exclusively learned. When official Oscar nomination voting opens Thursday, Jan. 11, eligible voting members of the branch will only be able to cast votes for the script written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach in adapted screenplay.

The Barbie movie is expected to receive a lot of love at the 2024 Academy Awards, but there’s been a surprise change to its eligibility status.

Alliance of Women Film Journalists have announced the winners of the annual AWFJ EDA awards. “Barbie” took home multiple awards in the “Best Of” category, including Best Director for Greta Gerwig, Original Screenplay for Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, and the film’s casting directors Lucy Brava and Allison Jones also took home an award.

Adam Driver has had enough of journalists asking him why he’s played two Italian roles in quick succession on the press tour for Ferrari.The actor made an appearance on the SmartLess podcast with Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes on Monday (January 1), where the subject of him playing two Italian men in two recent movies came up. Driver played Maurizio Gucci in 2021’s House Of Gucci and Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s biopic Ferrari.Speaking about how he hasn’t been very strategic in his acting career so far, Driver joked that the decision to play the two roles in quick succession was a “good example of not being strategic in a way that I probably should”.“So many people have been like, ‘How many Italians…?’ I’m like, it’s just kind of worked out that way,” Driver said, noting that someone on his PR team should have warned him it would “come up a lot” on the Ferrari press tour.“But I’m like, you know, it’s Ridley [Scott] and it’s Michael [Mann] and they’re in my mind some of the best filmmakers,” he said.

As we head into Oscar season, one thing seems inevitable: while so many new contenders have officially entered the race just in November or December, “Poor Things,” “Maestro,” “The Holdovers,” “American Fiction,” and “Killers Of The Flower Moon,” the 2024 Oscars may be the first Academy Award season that boils down to two summer blockbuster movies: “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” And yes, it’s funny to think of those two films as summer blockbusters in the traditional sense, given they’re not superhero movies or action franchises, but let’s face it, they are; one grossed over 1 billion dollars (Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”), and one came super close to that exact figure (Christopher Nolan’s movie).

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are married and we have photos from their wedding day!

Instagram. “Some special guests at show #97,” the “Everybody Loves You Now” singer captioned the snaps, which also featured a pic with fellow musician Elvis Costello. Joel shares both children with his fourth wife, Alexis Roderick, whom he married during his Fourth of July party in 2015.

Congratulations are in order for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach – they’re married!

George Clooney is hinting at a possible Ocean’s Eleven reunion movie!

So the rumors from earlier this year are true: Noah Baumbach is returning to Netflix for his next film. But the rumor mill got the leads of the film wrong or at least one-half of them.

George Clooney and Adam Sandler are teaming up for a movie!

George Clooney and Adam Sandler will team up in a new Noah Baumbach movie for Netflix that’s still untitled, Variety has confirmed. Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also created the series “Doll and Em.” Baumbach is producing with Amy Pascal and David Heyman. Under his exclusive deal with Netflix, Baumbach has already made “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” in which Sandler also starred, as well as the best picture nominee “Marriage Story,” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and “White Noise,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel and starring Drive and Greta Gerwig.

The 2024 Golden Globe nominations have officially been announced!

In addition to starring as the lead Barbie in the massive blockbuster “Barbie,” Margot Robbie is also a producer on the film. This meant, way before Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach were attached, Robbie was out there trying to find a home for this film, as well as trying to find the right storytellers to bring it to life.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Barbie” screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach joined together for a “60 Minutes” interview in which they were asked about the surprising “anti-man” backlash to their blockbuster comedy. Several conservative figures blasted “Barbie” after it opened in theaters over the summer for its patriarchy jokes, which they perceived as being anti-man. Bill Maher even went on record calling the film “man-hating.” “The movie is meant to be a big-hearted thing, even though it’s poking fun at everyone,” Gerwig said when such accusations were brought up in the interview.

White Noise) and Greta Gerwig (Ladybird) have addressed the backlash surrounding Barbie claiming it to be an “anti-man” movie.The married couple co-wrote and co-created Barbie, which was released in July 2023 and stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.Making more than $1billion at the box office and receiving critical acclaim for its story of the female experience, sexism, misogyny and empowerment among women, it quickly became one of the most talked-about films of the decade.However, it did receive some backlash, with some arguing that it was highly cynical, critical and demeaning of men, with Gosling’s character, Ken, seemingly spending his existence trying to impress Barbie, played by Robbie.In an interview with 60 Minutes, via CBS News, Baumbach and Gerwig discuss the criticism. When asked about the response by some viewers that the movie is “anti-man”, the Marriage Story director said: “I felt men could take it, I mean come on.”Barbie’s director and co-writer Gerwig also weighed in saying: “The movie is meant to be a big-hearted thing, even though it’s poking fun at everyone.”The Little Women director also defended Gosling’s character saying: “I mean this sounds so silly to say out loud but I love Ken.

After a remarkable run in theaters, Greta Gerwig’s pop culture phenomenon Barbie is making its way to streaming, having set a premiere date on Max of December 15th. The news comes shortly after the Gotham Awards, where Barbie was honored with a Global Icon & Creator tribute, with Gerwig and star Margot Robbie speaking on behalf of the film.

There have been quite a few hot takes revolving around “Barbie.” This is just something that happens to any film that turns into a surprisingly massive hit and the biggest film (financially) of 2023. But with “Barbie,” it’s also a film that invites all sorts of debate surrounding its social message, which has been twisted by lots of different folks in an attempt to claim the film isn’t just feminist but it’s also “anti-men.”  READ MORE: ‘Barbie’: Noah Baumbach Thought The Film Was A “Terrible Idea” When Greta Gerwig Signed Up For It In a new interview with “60 Minutes,” “Barbie” co-writer Noah Baumbach talked about the film being perceived as “anti-men.” And not surprising at all, the writer, who co-wrote the film alongside director Greta Gerwig, doesn’t think his film has some sort of anti-man agenda.

LCD Soundsystem have been announced to headline London’s All Points East 2024. Check out the full line-up and ticket details below.The electro-punk icons, who headlined the inaugural edition of the festival back in 2018, will return to top the bill at Victoria Park Friday August 23 for the Bank Holiday Weekend.They’ll be joined on the day by the enigmatic Jai Paul – who returned to limelight with live shows this year – along with Pixies, Floating Points, Jockstrap, Nation of Language, a live show from Sofia Kourtesis and Eyedress.

Barbie writer-director Greta Gerwig and star-producer Margot Robbie showcased their comedy chops in a one-two bit tonight, thanking the Gotham Awards for a Global Icon & Creator tribute. Watch their speech above.

LCD Soundsystem have begun to tease a 2024 UK tour announcement on social media.The band last released music in 2022, a song called ‘New Body Rhumba’. It was written for the soundtrack of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, and was the first song they had released in five years.

“I definitely didn’t want to try and make a puff piece Barbie. I wanted us to run at the scary things as much as we celebrated the wonderful things,” executive producer and star Margot Robbie said during a panel for the movie at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel on the film. “That’s exactly why I went after Greta [Gerwig], because I was like, ‘She would do that.'”

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.

LCD Soundsystem will round out 2023 with two end of year shows in San Francisco on December 30 and 31.The band will play at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on both nights, with support coming from Peaches and 2ManyDJs. Tickets are available here.James Murphy’s group are about to kick off a 12-date New York City residency that will cover venues in three different boroughs: Brooklyn Steel from November 16 to 19, Manhattan’s Terminal 5 from November 28 to December 1 and Queens’ Knockdown Center from December 7 to December 10.