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For a month with at least three major blockbuster releases, July also has plenty of highly anticipated indie releases, many of which made their premieres earlier in the year at film festivals. From “Theater Camp” to “Kokomo City,” smaller releases will be fighting for the spotlight as big-budget productions such as the latest in the “Mission Impossible” franchise and, of course, “Barbie” is released.

Margot Robbie wore pink on pink on pink for the latest Barbie premiere!

Billie Eilish has announced the release date and title of her new song for the forthcoming Barbie soundtrack.The ‘Happier Than Ever’ singer took to social media to reveal that she is one of the featured artists contributing to the highly anticipated film’s soundtrack. Eilish shared that the upcoming song ‘What Was I Made For?’ will make listeners “sob”.To announce the song, the 21-year-old singer shared a photo on Instagram of the Barbie logo with the track’s title written above it.

Vietnam’s decision to ban the movie has been making headlinesNow Warner Bros. is attempting to clarify its intention.The film, directed by Greta Gerwig, was set to hit theaters in the country on July 21, aligning with its big-screen release in most countries around the world.However, Vietnam announced the movie will not be released due to a scene that includes a map using the “nine-dash line” — a set of line segments that represents China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea — which Vietnam claims violates its sovereignty.But the studio rejects the need for controversy.“The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros.

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For a month with at least three major blockbuster releases, July also has plenty of highly anticipated indie releases, many of which made their premieres earlier in the year at film festivals. From “Theater Camp” to “Kokomo City,” smaller releases will be fighting for the spotlight as big-budget productions such as the latest in the “Mission Impossible” franchise and, of course, “Barbie” is released.

all-pink wardrobe — and no Kens are allowed.Dena Daniels has loved the Mattel dolls her whole life and played with them until other children started to bully her for being “too old” for it all.For years she felt she was hiding her “authentic self” by hiding her love of Barbie in order to adhere to societal expectations.“I was concerned about people’s approval and pleasing those around me, especially men,” she told Kennedy News and Media.But the mom-of-two was tired of hiding her love for all things Barbie, so she decided to “live her truth” by “pink-ifying” her home during the summer of 2021.“One day I just woke up and thought, ‘I’m not getting any younger; I want to do what I want to do. I don’t care what anyone else thinks about it, I want to be me,'” she admitted.

Communist party?Senator Ted Cruz unleashed boxed-up anger at the upcoming “Barbie” movie for including what his office called Chinese communist propaganda in the anticipated summer blockbuster, out July 21.The Margot Robbie-starring film came under fire for its pro-China, on-screen representation of islands in the South China Sea that are disputed — and have been the subject of two separate military campaigns in 1974 and 1988 — between both Vietnam and China.In 2016, a United Nations court ruled that China’s claim to the regions had no basis in international law.

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Barbie because the film includes the “nine dash line map” that depicts islands in the South China Sea as being controlled by Beijing.Vi Kien Thanh, director general of the Vietnam Cinema Department under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, announced that Barbie will not be allowed to commercially screen in the nation, as ruled by the National Film Evaluation Council.“We do not grant license for the American movie ‘Barbie’ to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,” the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper stated, citing Thanh (via Variety).The move follows Vietnam banning previous films including Uncharted and Abominable over the same issue.In 2016 the UN ruled unanimously against the validity of the “nine dash line” map, however China responded by saying that it doesn’t recognise the UN’s decision.Meanwhile, in other recent Barbie news, Margot Robbie has revealed the one request she made to director Greta Gerwig before filming the new movie.Set for release on July 21, Gerwig’s film stars Robbie in the titular role, with Ryan Gosling as Ken.Speaking about the film in an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Robbie discussed how she fell in love with the character as a child when she was gifted a Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas.Such was the impact the gift had on her, that she revealed she asked Gerwig to allow her to live out the real-life fantasy of the Dreamhouse in the film.“I’ll follow your vision. Whatever you want this Barbie movie to be, let’s do that,” she remembers telling the director.

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Jaden Smith has revealed his mother Jada Pinkett Smith introduced their family to psychedelics.The son of Jada and Will Smith opened up about the drugs while speaking at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver, Colorado, last week (via The Independent).“I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family,” Jaden explained. “It was just her for a really, really long time and then eventually it just trickled and evolved, and everybody found it in their own ways.”He then explained that he thought psychedelics helped him deepen his emotional connections with his siblings.“Siblings can argue so much and fight so much, and lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past,” he explained.

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Jada Pinkett Smith was the first to introduce psychedelic drugs into her family, according to her 24-year-old son, Jaden Smith. "I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family," Jaden Smith said of Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, while speaking at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver on Friday, according to USA Today.

Jaden Smith said his mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, introduced the family to psychedelics. «I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family,» Jaden said. «It was just her for a really, really long time and then eventually it just trickled and evolved, and everybody found it in their own ways.»Smith, 24, went on to credit psychedelics for helping him find a profound love and empathy for his siblings, Willow, 22, and half-brother Trey, 30.«Siblings can argue so much and fight so much, and lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past,» he said.

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Margot Robbie is revealing behind-the-scenes secrets of a viral shot. In an interview with Fandango, the 32-year-old actress shared how the much-discussed shot of Barbie's permanently high-heeled feet was captured on film.«It was probably about eight takes. Wasn't that many,» Robbie said of the scene in the trailer, before confirming that it was her feet in the shot.«I walked up, we had little sticky bits on the floor, double-sided tape for the shoes, so they wouldn't come off, so I could get my feet out of them,» she said.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Life in plastic, it’s fantastic! Aldo is helping shoppers become a Barbie girl in a Barbie world this summer with a brand new collection of hot pink and bedazzled shoes and accessories. The Aldo x Barbie collection, one of many to launch ahead of Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated film, officially drops on June 29 on the Aldo website.