Barbie

Global Box Office Estimated At $33.5B; Anime Explodes In Up-And-Down Year: Studio Report Cards Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Barbie , a cultural phenomenon that became 2023’s highest-grossing film at $1.45 billion worldwide. It’s also got eight Oscar nominations , including for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach ’s screenplay, which AMPAS put in the Adapted category despite other bodies — including the Writers Guild — clocking it as Original. Either way, Barbie ’s a doll, and the script boasts one of the most talked-about monologues in recent memory, delivered by America Ferrara’s Gloria in the film. The story centers on Margot Robbie’s “stereotypical” Barbie, whose every day is the best day ever, until a glitch occurs which sends her to the real world (accompanied by Ryan Gosling’s Ken). There, they discover truths they’d never imagined — some hard, some misguided and some very poignant — before heading back to Barbie Land to set things straight. Robbie has said: “The first time I read the Barbie script, my reaction was, ‘Ah! This is so good. What a shame it will never see the light of day… Because they are never going to let us make this movie.” But Warner Bros and Mattel did let them make it. Real-life couple Gerwig and Baumbach previously shared writing duties on 2015’s Mistress America and 2012’s Frances Ha . Gerwig was nominated for an Oscar for her Original Screenplay for 2017’s Lady Bird and for her Adapted Screenplay with 2019’s Little Women . Baumbach has had writing nominations for 2019’s Marriage Story and 2005’s The Squid and the Whale . Robbie and Tom Ackerley produced Barbie via their LuckyChap Entertainment shingle with Robbie Brenner, head of the Mattel Films division. Order the complete screenplay of the Barbie movie today, featuring an exclusive introduction by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and eight pages of full-color photos: linktr.ee/barbiethescreenplay Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them. The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices. Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice. Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you. Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers. Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other