Barbie

Oppenheimer, the Oscar-winning drama about the father of the atomic bomb, finally screened in Japan with trigger warnings.

Ryan Gosling was thrilled to receive an Oscar nomination for his role as Ken in last year’s hit film, “Barbie,” but even with the gratitude he ended up criticizing the Academy for not also handing the film’s star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig the same consideration.

Not that normal people care anymore, but the 2024 Oscar nominations are out, and it looks like a good night for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

Smash hit Barbie came away with a glittering trove of Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning but fans of the film claimed one thing – or maybe a pair of things – were missing.

Actress Jodie Foster says she sees the $1.4 billion success of the 2023 film Barbie as a sign that the sexist forces in Hollywood no longer see women “as a risk.”

Avatar director James Cameron is a big fan of Barbie, and specifically one scene — actress America Ferrera’s woke feminist speech in which her character angrily complains about all the pressures of being a modern woman.

Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards have been announced. Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama unveiled the nominees during an event Monday morning.

The SAG-AFTRA union has told striking members to “celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity” with the ongoing labor dispute, banning actors from wearing any costumes associated with “characters from non-struck content, like an animated TV show.”

Algeria has banned the movie Barbie from local cinemas, citing moral issues that affronted public sensibilities in the Muslim-majority North African country.

The Moscow Times reported on Wednesday that illegal copies of the international blockbuster hit film Barbie have begun appearing in Russian movie theaters despite American sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.

Comedian Bill Maher is calling out the feminist box office smash “Barbie” for pushing what he calls a “preachy, man-hating zombie lie” pertaining to the movie’s incessant references to “the patriarchy.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau donned a pink hoodie to celebrate the new Barbie movie with a feminist message: “We’re team Barbie,” he tweeted on Sunday.

Comedian and “WTF” podcaster Marc Maron absolutely loves feminist “Barbie” and has zero tolerance for men who don’t care for the way the movie repeatedly bashes the male sex and obsesses over the “patriarchy.”

TOKYO — The Japanese distributor of the Warner Bros. movie “Barbie” has apologized for its U.S. parent company’s reaction to social media posts about the “Barbenheimer” blitz that combined images of Barbie and a mushroom cloud. The memes triggered criticisms in Japan for what many described as minimizing the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Don Geronimo, a sports radio host in Washington, D.C., was fired this weekend over comments he made a female TV reporter. 

With Haunted Mansion’s dismal $24 million opening, the Disney Grooming Syndicate has been hit with another box office catastrophe.

Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters.

July 26 (UPI) — “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig says she has no plans for a sequel.

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s  “The View” that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) shouldn’t complain about the Barbie movie because, given its PG-13 rating, it seemed “like his crowd.”

Maybe history will call this week’s move by the Federal Reserve the Barbenheimer Hike.

Did this weekend’s box office smash, Barbie, break the box office curse of Get Woke, Go Broke?

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has reportedly broken the record for the best U.S. box office opening for a movie helmed by a female director, with $155 million in its first weekend.

By Monday, this $15 million-budgeted independent film THAT DISNEY DUMPED will have earned an astonishing $124 million.

Warner Bros’ “Barbie” film is tracking for a huge opening weekend, but early reviews have revealed the picture devolves into a series of moralizing monologues — not the light, fun adventure promised in its marketing.

Wednesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized the new “Barbie” movie, which he argued was being used to “kiss up” to the Communist Chinese government.

The official TikTok account of the presidency of Colombia posted a video over the weekend using footage from the upcoming film Barbie to invite Colombians to the federal government’s July 20 Independence Day celebrations.

The Philippines Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) announced on Wednesday it will allow the upcoming Barbie film starring Margot Robbie to be released, but only if a “cartoonish” map that resembles China’s “Nine-Dash Line” propaganda map of the South China Sea is digitally blurred out.

Actor Simu Liu, who plays one of the many Kens in the upcoming “Barbie” movie, said the film will put the “final nail in the coffin of that very heteronormative idea of what gender is.”

Transgender actor Hari Nef recently claimed that Warner Bros. upcoming “Barbie” movie, based on the venerable girl’s fashion doll toys, will be an inspiration to transgender and gay people everywhere.

Warner Bros. has now responded to the controversy over the upcoming Barbie movie’s alleged use of a map that favors communist China. 

The Philippine government is contemplating a ban of the film “Barbie” over reports it displays China’s “Nine-Dash Line” propaganda map.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has accused the Barbie movie of pushing Chinese propaganda upon revelations that Vietnam banned the movie.

Vietnam banned the upcoming film Barbie from theaters on Monday because a scene in the film shows a map with China’s “Nine-Dash Line” in it, a fictitious border the regime in Beijing created that puts almost the entire South China Sea under Chinese control.

One of the actresses of the upcoming movie “Barbie” is using the film’s promotional tour to push abortion, saying she is “extremely pro-choice” and has a “very emotional relationship with Roe v. Wade.”

Actresses Kate McKinnon and Issa Rae, who both will star in the upcoming Barbie movie about the iconic toy with the same name, gave a hint as to some of the themes the motion picture will touch upon, including gender roles.

June 9 (UPI) — Amy Schumer says the Barbie movie didn’t originally feel “feminist and cool” enough.