Lionsgate and Hasbro announced today that they have signed a deal with LuckyChap, the award-winning production company headed by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara, to produce Monopoly, a motion picture in development based on the legendary classic board game. Hasbro Entertainment will also produce. Lionsgate extended its development rights to the beloved, multi-generational…
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Barbie will make its streaming debut on Max on Friday, December 15 at 12am PT/3am ET. Barbie debuted in theaters on July 21 and broke records as the highest-grossing global release in the studio’s 100-year history. The film earned more than $1.441 billion worldwide, with $636 million coming from North American theaters…
Following a massive worldwide box office gross, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that the Barbie Digital release has been set for September 12, 2023 (pre-order the movie at Amazon). On September 12, Barbie will be available for early Premium Digital Ownership at home for $29.99 and 48-hour rental via PVOD for $24.99 on participating digital…
With the movie now sitting at an impressive $1.286 billion worldwide, Warner Bros. Pictures has announced a one-week Barbie IMAX release. The film has grossed $572.9 million domestically and $713.5 million overseas. The Barbie IMAX release will take place throughout North America and in select locations around the world. In addition to experiencing the film…
With no signs of slowing down, the Greta Gerwig-directed Barbie has passed the billion-dollar mark over the weekend, just 17 days in release in North America and most international markets, taking in a record-smashing $1.0315 billion worldwide. Of the worldwide total, $459.4 million has come from domestic theaters and $572.1 million from overseas markets. The…
On the heels of its record-shattering opening weekend, the Barbie box office has now already reached a staggering total of $528.6 million worldwide. The film has now grossed $237.2 million at the domestic box office and $291.4 million internationally before its second weekend has even kicked off. The Barbie box office announcement was made today…
With the world’s most iconic doll at its heart, visionary filmmaker Greta Gerwig at the helm, and a standout cast led by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, Warner Bros. Pictures’ Barbie film arrived in theaters on Friday to a record-shattering $356.3 million worldwide, taking in $162 million domestically and $194.3 million in international markets. The…
Barbie has come to signify many things. A friend. A foe. A token of feminism. The reinforcer of feminine ideals. For myself, she’s come to represent childhood innocence. The time I forced myself to grow up and leave behind such childish things. This fashion doll created by Ruth Handler has spent decades taking the world…
Warner Bros. Pictures has brought online the main Barbie trailer, which previews the anticipated movie directed by Greta Gerwig and opening in theaters on July 21, 2023. You can watch the new Barbie trailer using the player below. To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you…
Warner Bros. Pictures has shared the new official trailer and poster for the anticipated Barbie movie, directed by Greta Gerwig and opening in theaters on July 21, 2023. There’s also no less than 24 character posters, which you can all view by scrolling down. To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being…
Like most period films, David O. Russell’s Amsterdam tries to both look forward to the future and reveal something about the past. It is less about ‘yesterday’ than ‘today’ but unsure which part of ‘today’ it’s aiming at. It wants to remind us of moments in the past to keep us from Santayana-like repetition, but…
David O. Russell (Three Kings, Silver Linings Playbook) has made some star-studded movies in the past, but nothing on the level of his new period piece Amsterdam. Based on a true story, it focuses on three close friends (Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington) who get caught up in the murder of a…
Sometime after the events of Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey, Amanda Waller has a new mission for her misfit band of villains. A coup has recently taken place in a small Central American country. Unfortunately, the country has possession of an extraterrestrial weapon of mass destruction, and the new president has a distinctly anti-American…
A funny thing happened on the way to my press screening of Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (and if you think I’m typing that title full-on again in this review, well, we’ll see how the word count goes), and I blame myself entirely. I didn’t know that Birds of Prey…
If it is indeed true that Quentin Tarantino is going to retire after his tenth film (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, for all intents and purposes, is supposed to be his ninth), he could be dangerously close to proving the old adage that it is better to burn out than to fade away. Not…