Comment on Barbie earns $1 billion at the box office worldwide
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has officially made $1 billion globally at the box office, becoming the fastest Warner Bros. release to hit the milestone.
Barbie is the first movie from a solo female director to hit the mark, joining just a few other female-directed films that have grossed over a billion dollars internationally: Frozen and Frozen II (both co-directed by Jennifer Lee alongside Chris Buck) and Captain Marvel (co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck).
“It’s a good club to be in,” said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. Pictures president of domestic distribution, in a statement to Variety.
Chief among them, I’d argue, is that Gerwig — who also co-wrote the film alongside regular collaborator Noah Baumbach — deserves to be given as much money as she wants to make whatever she pleases.
Prior to the release of Barbie, The New Yorker reported that the toy company is considering adapting everything from Hot Wheels to Uno.
Barbie stars Margot Robbie as the sublime titular protagonist, while Ryan Gosling’s job is Ken.
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Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 1 year ago
How the fuck do you adopt Uno into a movie??
AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Make it a realistic Hunger Games esque survival card game movie. I want to see heads explode when they get hit with that 7th consecutive Draw 2 and have to draw 14 cards. I want to see Predator but it’s two guys both holding three Draw 4s. I want blood to be spilled, a PG-13 rating at a minimum.