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With So Many Hits, How Will ‘Barbie’ Songs Compete at the Oscars?
“Who is your favorite child?” is a question most parents know they can’t, well, shouldn’t, answer. “Which songs from the Barbie soundtrack will you submit to the Academy Awards?” might be a similarly tough question for its producers to respond to. Barbie: The Album has been a triumphant, chart-topping, multi-hit success since the soundtrack was released […]
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‘Barbie’ Album Producers on “I’m Just Ken” Success and How Greta Gerwig Landed Nicki Minaj
Two months after “I’m Just Ken” debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, writer and producer Mark Ronson broke down the making of the Ryan Gosling breakout song at a “The Music Behind Barbie” event in Los Angeles. Joined by Barbie soundtrack producers Kevin Weaver and Brandon Davis, along with music supervisor George Drakoulias, at the […]
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‘Barbie’ Music Producer Says Hit Song “I’m Just Ken” Almost Had a Much Smaller Role in the Film
“I’m Just Ken” almost had a much smaller role in Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking Barbie. In a new featurette promoting the film’s release on streaming, Gerwig, music producer Mark Ronson, Ryan Gosling, Ncuti Gatwa and more of the cast and crew opened up about the making of the now-hit song. “It went from being this song […]
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Billion-Dollar Blockbuster ‘Barbie’ Is Coming to Home Theater Land: When and How to Stream Online
Greta Gerwig's record-breaking film starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken will be available to watch online as early as Sept. 11 for some home moviegoers.
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Another Box Office Milestone: ‘Barbie’ Becomes Top-Grossing Movie of 2023 Domestically, Global to Soon Follow
Barbie‘s history-making run continues. On Wednesday — its 34th day in release — Greta Gerwig’s movie passed up runaway blockbuster The Super Mario Bros. Movie at the domestic box office to become the top-grossing title of 2023 after finishing the day with a North American total of $575.4 million. Super Mario Bros., from Universal and […]
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‘Barbie’ Releases Inside Look at Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” Performance
He’s still just Ken. Atlantic Records on Monday released a behind-the-scenes look at Ryan Gosling and his Barbie castmates’ performance of “I’m Just Ken.” The video takes viewers behind the scenes of the filming of the song, including footage of Gosling rehearsing along with appearances by director Greta Gerwig, executive producer Mark Ronson, the song’s […]
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‘Barbie’ Banned in Algeria Amid Arab World Boycott Threats (Report)
Warner Bros.’s blockbuster hit Barbie has reportedly been banned in Algeria, as some Middle East countries continue to object to the Hollywood movie’s themes of gender and sexuality. On Monday, Reuters reported, according to an official source and the local 24H Algerie news site, that screenings of Barbie in Algeria that began on July 21 […]
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‘Barbie’ Costume Designer Jacqueline Durran Has One Rule for Good Barbiecore
When Greta Gerwig reached out to British costume designer Jacqueline Durran to ask if she would create the wardrobe for her blockbuster fantasy comedy Barbie, the answer was an easy yes. “We were connected because I did Little Women and I was lucky enough that Greta asked me back,” says Durran, who won the Academy […]
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Ryan Gosling Surprises Greta Gerwig With ‘Barbie’ Flash Mob for Her Birthday
Ryan Gosling came up with a memorable celebration for his Barbie director, Greta Gerwig, to help mark her birthday as the Warner Bros. film maintains its dominance at the box office. The Barbie film’s official Instagram account posted a video showing Gerwig getting surprised during what appears to be a Pilates class as a flash […]
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‘Barbie’ Is About to Be a $1 Billion Movie, But Has No Sequel in Sight
Warner Bros.’ Barbie is an unabashed phenomenon, both as a movie and a pop culture movement. It is only days away from hitting the $1 billion dollar mark at the worldwide box office after crossing $900 million Thursday. In any normal circumstances, the studio behind such a hit would be touting that a sequel is […]
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How ‘Barbie’ Star Ariana Greenblatt Manifested Her Way Onto the Summer Blockbuster
On the incredibly star-studded Barbie set, Ariana Greenblatt had her pick of A-list stars to meet. But it was Michael Cera, who plays Barbieland’s Allan, with whom she was most excited to work. “I didn’t know he was in the movie,” she remembers during an interview conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike. “No one talked about him […]
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Ryan Gosling Wears Three Gold TAG Heuers at Once in the ‘Barbie’ Movie
Nothing epitomizes “Kenergy” more than wearing three TAG Heuer watches at once. Ryan Gosling, who plays perennial sidekick Ken in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, boldly rocks not one but three vintage gold Carrera chronographs at the same time in the hit movie. (Buzz Aldrin recently sported a trio of iconic Omega Speedys simultaneously, so perhaps tripling your wrist candy is […]
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