Barbie director Greta Gerwig is first solo female director with a $1 billion movie
07.08.2023 - 10:23
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As Barbie breaks the box office, grossing over $1 billion globally, director Greta Gerwig has made history as the first solo female director to reach this impressive feat. Only 53 films have hit the billion-dollar category, with Barbie joining the likes of Titanic, Jurassic Park, and Avatar.The only other female-directed films on this list are Frozen, Frozen 2, and Captain Marvel.
But Greta is the only female director on the list credited as a solo director, as Frozen and Frozen 2's Jennifer Lee and Captain Marvel's Anna Boden co-directed their films with Chris Buck and Ryan Fleck respectively.The actress-turned-director and screenwriter has already built up an impressive resume, being nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 2018 for Lady Bird. She was nominated for Best Original Screenplay that same year, also for Lady Bird, and in 2020 was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2020's Little Women.
Barbie was co-written by Greta and her partner writer and director Noah Baumbach, and Greta was originally signed on to just write the screenplay but while writing realised she'd love to direct the flick too. Speaking to the New York Times, she said: "I was originally meant to just write it with Noah, and then we finished the script and that was the thing that made me want to direct it.
"It felt so clear to me: If they didn’t want to make that [version], I didn’t need to make it. Margot [Robie], as the producer and star, was really the first person to line up and say, 'want to do it her way.' "And then as we started adding collaborators and gathering more cast, suddenly there was a large number of people who were excited to do something that was this, excuse the pun, out of the box." Celebrating this huge milestone for
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