Barbie (2023)
Barbie was the link movie connecting The Wolf of Wall Street and La La Land.
Linked through Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
Both Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling appeared in Barbie.
About Barbie
"She's everything. He's just Ken."
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Directed by Greta Gerwig
Written by Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig
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Barbie was named one of the top ten films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. It received eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and won Best Original Song for "What Was I Made For?"; the song also won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and the film received the inaugural Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
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Score by Andrew Wyatt
The film's original song "What Was I Made For?" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as reported in the article.
Movie trivia
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Barbie is a 2023 satirical fantasy comedy directed by Greta Gerwig from a screenplay she wrote with her husband Noah Baumbach, and it is the first live-action Barbie film following numerous animated films and specials.
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A live-action Barbie was first announced in September 2009 at Universal; Sony acquired rights in April 2014 after renewed development, and after multiple writers and directors the project's option lapsed and the rights transferred to Warner Bros. in October 2018.
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Amy Schumer entered negotiations for the title role in December 2016 and helped rewrite the script with her sister, but exited in March 2017—initially citing scheduling and later revealing in 2023 it was due to creative differences; Anne Hathaway was also considered the following year.
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Margot Robbie entered early talks and was confirmed as Barbie in July 2019; as a producer she pitched the film to Warner Bros., compared it at green-light to Jurassic Park and joked it would gross over $1 billion, and Variety later reported she would earn roughly $50 million in salary and bonuses.
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Principal photography took place primarily at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, England, and at the Venice Beach Skatepark in Los Angeles, running from March to July 2022.
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Barbie premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 9, 2023, was released in the U.S. on July 21, its concurrent release with Oppenheimer sparked the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon, and it grossed $1.448 billion, becoming Warner Bros.' highest-grossing film and the top film of 2023.
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