Greta Gerwig Addresses Intimacy Coordinators & the Success of 'Barbie'

Thania Garcia Billie Eilish and Finneas were honored with the Film Song of the Year at Variety‘s Hitmakers, presented by Sony audio, on Saturday for the “Barbie” power ballad “What Was I Made For?“ The duo’s award was presented by Bernie Taupin, the famed lyricist and longtime writing partner with Sir Elton John. “A lot of great people can write a lot of great songs with a lot of outside help, but not many find their one true songwriting partner that can truly cut through the noise and drive straight to the heart, with a simple idea, a melody, and lyrics that can lift the world and touch us all,” Taupin said on stage.

Did disco ever go out of style? Not if you ask Mark Ronson and Dua Lipa, the forces behind the soundtrack for this year’s No. 1 box office hit, Barbie. Specifically, they co-penned the album’s lead single “Dance the Night,” which is performed by the English-Albanian singer.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Billie Eilish remembers being aware there were some puzzled — or just wary — reactions when a song she and Finneas co-wrote, “What Was I Made For?,” was one of the last tracks announced for the “Barbie” soundtrack. “I remember everybody being like, ‘What the hell? It’s gonna be a fun, cute, girly, pink movie for the summer and we’re all going to be laughing.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Whether it’s a soundtrack, a score or a song placement, there are countless wrong ways to do music for film and so few ways to make it feel right. There’s very little leeway, which is why it can be so challenging for even the most successful hitmakers to make the transition to film music — especially with a major film event like “Barbie.” To say that the music for the summer blockbuster has been a success is a vast understatement: Not only is the film’s companion album Variety’s Hitmakers Soundtrack of the Year, the music from the film scored a whopping 11 Grammy nominations across seven categories — including song and record of the year — and four of the five entries nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Greta Gerwig is reflecting on the phenomenon that was Barbie!

Barbie writer-director Greta Gerwig and star-producer Margot Robbie showcased their comedy chops in a one-two bit tonight, thanking the Gotham Awards for a Global Icon & Creator tribute. Watch their speech above.

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starred in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and seemingly had a lot of fun making the film.

there may only be one “Barbie.”Margot Robbie, 33, doesn’t think there will be a sequel to the massive summer hit “Barbie.” “I think we put everything into this one,” Robbie recently told the Associated Press when asked about a potential follow-up. “We didn’t build it to be a trilogy or something.”“It was like, Greta [Gerwig] put everything into this movie, so I can’t imagine what would be next,” she added.“Barbie,” which also stars A-listers such as Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Helen Mirren, and America Ferrera, follows the popular Mattel doll (Robbie) as she is forced to journey to the real world after she begins to “malfunction” by developing cellulite and experiencing death anxiety while living in the utopian Barbieland.“I’d say the biggest takeaway for me is that original films can still hit huge at the box office,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” star continued to the AP.

Margot Robbie has denied any chances of a potential Barbie sequel.Rumours of a Barbie sequel were first sparked when Robbie gave an interview to TIME, saying she’d been involved in conversations around a potential follow-up film. “It could go a million different directions from this point,” she said at the time.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Matt Bomer revealed to Vanity Fair that he sent in a self-taped audition to play one of the many iterations of Ken in Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster comedy “Barbie,” but he ultimately decided not to join the movie so he could prioritize spending time with his family. He was offered a shot at auditioning and was interested in the project enough to send a self-tape to Gerwig and the casting directors.

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 36 years before Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster phenomenon.A 43-minute short film made at Bard College in New York State, Superstar depicts scenes from the life of the 1970s pop star using the children’s toys instead of real-life actors.Charting the rise and fall of Carpenter, who died from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa in 1983, Haynes’ controversial film uses the stick-thin dolls to emphasise Carpenter’s frailty and was banned after a copyright claim from the Carpenter estate. It contains uncleared Carpenters tracks throughout and also makes claims about the sexuality of Karen’s brother Richard.Superstar has become a cult curio since then and Haynes, though he hasn’t seen Barbie, told NME in an exclusive interview that he’s pretty sure Gerwig is familiar with it.“I love Greta Gerwig.

Now that the strikes are over, Margot Robbie and the cast and crew of Barbie have officially launched their awards campaign!

The cast of Barbie experienced life in plastic while filming 2023′s hottest blockbuster. The very pink extravaganza grossed over $1 billion in less than a month and is now the top grossing movie of 2023 in North America!

Billie Eilish has said she thought she’d she’d “hit her peak” and “it was over” before penning her Barbie soundtrack song this summer.Eilish’s song for the soundtrack, ‘What Was I Made For?’ was last week nominated for five Grammys. The track was written by Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas for the soundtrack of Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster. Finneas also produced the song at his home studio in LA.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Eilish said: “I honestly was concerned that it was over for me.

“Barbie” world at theaters this summer.And now that the Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster has taken over the 2024 Grammys, with multiple “Barbie” soundtrack songs occupying the nominations list — announced Friday morning — it’s as if the Recording Academy is her own personal Dream House.First, there’s Billie Eilish, who not-so-surprisingly scored Record of the Year and Song of the Year nominations for “What Was I Made For?” — among five of her six nods connected to the “Barbie” behemoth.

Ryan Gosling’s ‘I’m Just Ken’ song from Barbie has been nominated for a Grammy today.The nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards were shared this afternoon (November 10) with SZA leading the way with nine nominations.The official Grammys YouTube hosted a livestream for the announcement, with the winners set to be announced at the ceremony on February 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. See the full list of nominations here.Among the nominations was Ryan Gosling for his song ‘I’m Just Ken’ that appeared in Greta Gerwig’s hit film Barbie this summer.

William Earl Netflix film chief Scott Stuber once ran Universal Studios – today he sometimes feels like the operator of “the AMC 6000” given the volume of movies that Netflix produces and acquires. From Greta Gerwig’s plans for Narnia adaptations to wooing Denzel Washington and Steven Spielberg, Stuber shared Netflix’s vision of film’s future in a wide-ranging Q&A with Variety executive editor Brent Lang that was held Nov. 8 as part of Variety’s Business Managers Elite Breakfast presented by City National Bank.

Barbie screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have shared some of the notes that toy manufacturing company Mattel gave them on their script.The husband and wife filmmaking duo were celebrating the record-breaking blockbuster with author Tony Kushner recently. According to Variety, they revealed that during the movie’s beach battle scene between the feuding Kens, a Mattel exec, led there by CEO Will Ferrell, is shot with a fake arrow.Baumbach (Marriage Story, White Noise) said, “There was a note when we first turned the script.

Barbenheimer film is in development to capitalise on the dual release phenomenon of Barbie and Oppenheimer.The planned comedy is from B-movie mogul Charles Band, who has been making low-budget horror comedies since the 1970s.In a mash-up of Barbie and Oppenheimer’s storylines, the film follows scientist doll Dr. Bambi J.

It’s the question on the lips of countless moviegoers: who will be the next James Bond? Since Daniel Craig took his final bow as 007 in 2021’s “No Time To Die,” there’s been tons of speculation on who will don the spy’s tuxedo and wield his Walther PPK. And despite some clamor for a female Bond, it’s (mostly) British actors who have had rumors swirling about their names.