Barbie he collects one plate after another. Becoming the best debut of 2023, it passed the $1 billion mark at the box office in just 17 days. The result that its director makes, Greta Gerwig, the first female director in the world to reach this milestone. Thus, Gerwig goes far beyond the record previously set Patty Jenkins with his amazing woman (which instead settled at 822 million). Barbie it is also the fastest film in Warner Bros. history to hit the billion mark, and for the third straight week it has been the highest-grossing film in theaters.
A fever that shows no sign of stopping, hence from all points of view. Equally well, in fact, individual songs and whole Barbie Album. Looking at the US charts, Global 200 Top 10 has three songs: new version barbie world by Aqua with Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, What was I made for? From Billie Eilish AND dance the night From Dua Lipa. just there parody songs i’m just ken Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the film, a song that satirizes ’00s boy bands hit the charts. Where are we? The album finished last week at #13 (Tedua dominates #1 with The Divine Comedy).
The success (fueled by a strong marketing campaign) convinced Mattel to explore its cinematic universe, including sequels and new characters such as the Polly Pockets film.
At SA, you can get a movie review at Barbie, written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. A film that knows very well what it wants to be: an ironic, poppy, at times touching coming-of-age story about a woman’s experience in search of her own identity. A personality consisting of contradictions, like the quintessence of a doll.