‘Barbenheimer’ Fever: Meet the Film Lovers Turning ‘Barbie’-‘Oppenheimer’ Double Features Into the Movie Event of the Year

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International The BBC’s “Oppenheimer” has finally landed on iPlayer. All seven episodes of the Sam Waterston-led drama series from 1980 is now available in full on the BBC streaming service. Until now, the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated series was only available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.

Oppenheimer may be about an atomic bomb, but Barbie’s the movie causing a pop culture explosion.

To say Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is a hit is a gross understatement. Not only did the film wow critics, with a great 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, but the comedy has connected with the general public in a massive way, earning a huge $162 million in its first three days.

released a massive version of the iconic Mattel doll wearing her black and white bathing suit and sunglasses on Monday.The video, which has since received nearly 410,300 views, shows the doll ripping open the plastic cover of her box as she climbs out and strikes a pose in front of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which has been dubbed the “world’s tallest building” standing at 2,722 feet.The virtual doll, the latest in several marketing ploys for Greta Gerwig’s highly-anticipated film, is pulled from the teaser trailer released in December 2022 featuring Margot Robbie, who plays the title role, in the same suit.“The reason people think we spent so much is that it’s so ubiquitous,” Warner Bros. president of global marketing Josh Goldstine told Variety. “Because it pierced the zeitgeist, it has the impression that we spend so much.”“In fact, we spent responsibly for an event movie,” continued Goldstine.The Post reached out to Warner Bros.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Greta Gerwig told The New York Times that watching her “Barbie” movie become a historic comedy blockbuster has been “so amazing.” The film debuted to a whopping $162 million, breaking the opening weekend record for a female director. It then scored $26 million on its first Monday after release, setting a new Warner Bros. in-house record for the studio’s top Monday grosser.

Everyone didn’t stop going to the movies on Monday with Barbenheimer in full force: Warner Bros posted the best Monday at the domestic box office with Barbie grossing $26.1M while Universal’s Christopher Nolan pic Oppenheimer wasn’t shabby with $12.6M.

We’re going to assume that even if you haven’t got round to watching the Barbie movie yet, you’ve seen people discussing everything from the music to the characters to the absolutely flawless costumes seen on both Barbie and Ken alike. And whilst everyone can’t get enough of Barbie’s collection of incredible outfits, there’s one particular Ken item that has fans desperate to know where they can buy it – his tie dye hoodie.

Amy Schumer is opening up about what she thought of Barbie.

Barbie was more than it actually cost to make the film itself, it has been reported.Greta Gerwig‘s film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, came to cinemas on Friday (July 21).Ahead of its box office opening, the film hosted a host of marketing activities from making a real-life Barbie dreamhouse to pink burgers and beyond, as well as a social media-led meme trend pitting the film against Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer.Now, it has been reported by Variety that the marketing budget for the film was a staggering $150million (£117m), eclipsing the $145m (£113m) it cost to actually make the film itself.Barbie is currently set to outpace Oppenheimer at the box office over the two films’ shared opening weekend.As things stand, Gerwig’s comedy is set to bring in $110million (£86.6million) at the US box office this weekend, over twice the expected takings of Nolan’s biopic about the creator of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer is expected to gross $50million (£38.8million).Barbie’s current takings mean it will break the record for the highest-opening film in the US by a female director. Wonder Woman previously held the title, bringing in £103million (£89.1million) in 2017.Warner Bros confirmed that Barbie had earned $22.3million (£17.3million) in box office previews – the highest figure of any film this year.

summer blockbuster “Oppenheimer” is surely not bombing at the box office, but there is one scene in the movie that isn’t hitting the right target.One moment in the three-hour film starring Cillian Murphy shows a historical error that viewers pointed out on Twitter.In the shot, the Irish actor, 47, stands in the middle of a crowd, who all clap and cheer for him while they wave American flags.The dramatic epic about the life of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer takes place in the early 1940s, but the flags featured white stars that represent 50 states — despite the country only having 48 in 1945 when the scene took place.Hawaii and Alaska, the last two entities to be annexed to the United States, were not added until 1959.Eagle-eyed fan Andy Craig revealed the mistake on social media, sharing a snapshot of the scene, and his post quickly went viral.“It was good and all, but I’ll be that guy and complain they used 50-star flags in a scene set in 1945,” he tweeted.Other fans agreed with his discovery and even called out Nolan, 52, for the incorrect usage.“Totally ruined the film for me,” a person claimed.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” ends with an ingenious final joke. Margot Robbie’s eponymous doll has become human and appears to be walking into a job interview when it’s revealed that she’s actually at a doctor’s office. “I’m here to see my gynecologist,” Barbie says with a huge smile despite not having any genitals (which is joked about earlier in the film). The movie cuts to black. “With this film, it was important for me that everything operated on at least two levels,” Gerwig told USA Today about crafting that final line. “I knew I wanted to end on a mic drop kind of joke, but I also find it very emotional. When I was a teenage girl, I remember growing up and being embarrassed about my body, and just feeling ashamed in a way that I couldn’t even describe. It felt like everything had to be hidden.

McKinley Franklin editor No one is immune to the cultural craze that is “Barbenheimer” — including Quentin Tarantino. Moviegoers across the globe assembled over the weekend to celebrate the debut of both Greta Gerwig’s pink and plastic-permeated “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s atomic history piece “Oppenheimer.” With both films opening on the same day, many ticket buyers picked up same-day viewings of the films — Tarantino among them. In a photograph posted to Twitter, a user snapped a picture of the filmmaker in Los Angeles with Roger Avary, his “Pulp Fiction” co-writer and co-host on the pair’s Video Archives Podcast. The caption shared that Tarantino walked across the street after seeing “Oppenheimer” to buy tickets for “Barbie,” going from the Westwood Village to the Regency Bruin Theatre.

panned as a “self-absorbed and overwrought disappointment,” brought in $22.2 million in preview ticket sales on Thursday, followed by another $48.2 million with its Friday premiere on more than 4,200 screens, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.Director Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer,” which delves into the life of the developer of the atom bomb, exploded into the number two spot, raking in $33 million in opening day sales, including $10.5 million from Thursday previews.  The historical drama, starring Cillian Murphy as scientist J.

Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s epic yet introspective, all-star cast biopic Oppenheimer spawned the summer’s most unlikely double feature.The teams behind both films were smart enough to catch on to the public’s pitting the world’s most famous doll against the man who birthed the Bomb.And the team behind this dual review, having completed the double feature in Barbie–Oppenheimer order, can report that both films are smart enough to recognize, respectively, the stereotypical girlishness that Barbie represents, and the inarguably patriarchal society that J. Robert Oppenheimer both represented and at times resisted.Barbie, co-written by Ladybird and Little Women Oscar nominee Gerwig and her Oscar-nominated husband Noah Baumbach, actually turns examining the toy’s impact on generations of girls and women into its whole raison d’être.

All those naysayers fretting over the state of the box office are going to have to find something new to complain about after Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” arrive in theaters this weekend. Yes, “Barbenheimer” is finally here and both films are looking at a combined $150 to $170 million (or maybe more) over the three-day span (and that’s just in the U.S.).

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. More than 40,000 people have purchased tickets to see “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” on the same day, according to AMC Theatres — a double feature dubbed the “Barbenheimer.” If you’re one of the movie lovers planning a back-to-back screening this weekend, then you’re well aware that no detail is insignificant when constructing an optimal viewing experience. Only the perfect curation of snacks and beverages and outfit choices will help you endure (enjoy!) the five hour-plus viewing experience (“Oppenheimer” runs at three hours; “Barbie” clocks in just under two).

The Barbie World keeps expanding!

At a time when the industry is suffering through historic dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the motion picture industry is poised to see an enormous weekend at the box office with Warner Bros./Mattel’s long awaited toy feature adaptation Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s World War II era three-hour adult drama Oppenheimer reaping a combined $260M+ global start.

20,000 members of its loyalty program have bought advance tickets to see “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” as a double feature, AMC Theatres says that total has doubled to 40,000. For months, the “Barbenheimer” double feature meme has become a cultural sensation, as cinephiles have delighted in how the movie release schedule has led to Greta Gerwig’s lighthearted comedy about the most famous doll every made getting released at the same time as Christopher Nolan’s tense drama about the creation of the nuclear bomb.

After months of waiting, the movie event of the year is finally imminent: Barbenheimer.