The Peabody Awards said Thursday that Lily Tomlin has won the Peabody Career Achievement Award, and Issa Rae the Peabody Trailblazer Award. The honors will be bestowed during a ceremony for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards on June 11 in Los Angeles.
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The entire cast for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” film has just been unveiled, and the star power is off the charts.
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were initially donned as the main live-action dolls of the film. However, the film’s social media accounts revealed several other characters, including humans, on Tuesday, April 4.
The Barbies come in wide-ranging careers, with Issa Rae playing a pageant-sashed President Barbie, Nicola Coughlan as a diplomat Barbie while rocking some heavy pink tulle, Rita Arya as a Pulitzer-prize-winning Barbie, and Dua Lipa as a blue-haired mermaid Barbie, along with plenty more.
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There’s also an appearance by Barbie’s best friend, Midge, playing the pregnant version of the doll released in 2002. Her husband Allen is also in the film, played by Michael Cera.
Then there are the Ken dolls, played by Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Scott Evans. They’re not as descriptive in their careers, but they all rock classic Ken looks, including tank tops and cowboy hats.
America Ferrera and Ariana Greenblatt star as humans in the film. Will Ferrell, Connor Swindells and Jamie Demetriou will be playing suited-up Mattel CEOs, and Helen Mirren will be narrating.
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“Barbie” will strut into theatres on July 21.
The Peabody Awards said Thursday that Lily Tomlin has won the Peabody Career Achievement Award, and Issa Rae the Peabody Trailblazer Award. The honors will be bestowed during a ceremony for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards on June 11 in Los Angeles.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Issa Rae will be honored with the Peabody Trailblazer Award, while Lily Tomlin will receive the org’s Career Achievement Award, as the Peabody Awards celebrates this year’s kudos on June 11 in Los Angeles. Also announced on Thursday, “Shrinking” star and “The Daily Show” alum Jessica Williams has signed on to host this year’s ceremony. “Beyond our annual awards recognizing the most compelling stories, Peabody is dedicated to recognizing individuals that inspire and delight us,” said Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody. “Lily Tomlin has made so many people laugh over the decades with her remarkable talent, and Issa Rae has proven herself a profound entertainment storyteller, performer, and force for good. We’re thrilled to recognize Issa and Lily for not only their extraordinary contributions to storytelling, but also for their important role and place for women in comedy and entertainment.”
Issa Rae is keeping mum on the upcoming “Barbie Movie”.
Kristen Stewart has joined the cast of her ex-partner Michael Angarano's road-trip comedy 'Sacramento'. The 'Spencer' actress will star alongside the 'This Is Us' star, who is helming the flick, Michael Cera, and Angarano's fiancée and mother of his young son Leon Frederick, Maya Erskine, 35. The motion picture "follows Rickey (Angarano), an energetic and free-spirited young man, and Glenn (Cera), his long-time friend who’s settled into domestic life.
EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Stewart (Spencer) is joining Michael Angarano (This Is Us), Michael Cera (Juno) and Maya Erskine (Pen15) in road-trip comedy Sacramento.
Kristen Stewart has landed her next big role, and it looks like she’s headed for a fun comedy!
Margot Robbie is sharing her initial reaction after reading the Barbie script and was skeptical that the studio would even allow them to make the film.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Woody Allen’s “Coup de Chance,” the controversial filmmaker’s 50th movie, has found a French distributor. Metropolitan FilmExport, one of country’s biggest independent distributors, has come on board to release the movie in France. The release date has not yet been set, but sources close to the film say it could world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Metropolitan FilmExport has never handled a movie directed by Allen before as it typically focuses on commercial U.S. movies such as the “Hunger Games” franchise and “Evil Dead Rises.” While Allen’s movies have also always been widely popular in France, his previous film “Rifkin’s Festival” sold under 100,000 tickets for Apollo Films after world premiering at the San Sebastian Festival. It was the director’s worst B.O. performance in France. Budgeted in the $20-million range, “Coup de Chance” was a pricey acquisition that not many French distributors could afford to gamble on.
If you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the last 48 hours, you will have seen that the first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie film has dropped, and everyone is going absolutely wild for it. From the star studded cast to the bright colours and attention to detail – like the fact Margot Robbie’s foot stays in the iconic Barbie pose when she removes her heels – there is plenty that has gotten people talking about the new film ahead of its July release.
Love Island star Tasha Ghouri has revealed that she was incredibly close to bagging a role in the cast of the highly-anticipated new live-action Barbie film.The sure-fire summer hit, which is due for release in cinemas in July, features Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in the lead roles, and has a gigantic supporting cast to boot. But dancer Tasha, 24, could have got her big break but it would have meant swapping her sun-soaked days in the villa in Spain for a Hollywood movie set instead.The star opened up on the incredibly opportunity and how she got to the final round of auditions to be a dancer in Greta Gerwig's film on her Twitter page.
Michael Cera is getting the Barbie bump.
Dua Lipa has been announced as part of the extended cast of Barbie. The Greta Gerwig-directed movie is out on July 21 with Margot Robbie taking on the lead role and Ryan Gosling starring as Ken.
released a brand-new trailer Tuesday, as well as several posters on Twitter featuring the star-studded cast. “Meet our Barbies and Kens,” reads a tweet from the film’s official account.The tweet shows Margot Robbie, Kate McKinnon, Nicola Coughlan, Alexandra Shipp, Ritu Arya, Hari Nef and several other actors as the different versions of Barbie.
, and it gives fans a more in-depth look at what's coming in the sequel to 2018's Oscar-winning animated feature when it premieres on June 2. introduced fans to Miles (voiced by Shameik Moore), an intelligent teen whose life changes when he gets bit by a radioactive spider and replaces the recently deceased Peter Parker (Chris Pine) of his universe as the city's Spider-Man. His heroic journey is aided by a team of Spider-Men (or Spider-Women, or Spider-Hams) from other universes, who band together to save the multiverse, including Peter B.
Barbie movie have been shared, and it is confirmed that Dua Lipa is part of the cast.The pop icon announced her role in the film with a post on Instagram earlier today (April 4). The image shared is part of the newly-released series of official posters, and depicts her as a mermaid version of Barbie.“This Barbie is a mermaid!!” She wrote as the caption.
The Barbie movie's incredible glittering cast has been unveiled three months before the highly-anticipated movie finally reaches cinema screens, and there's a whole host of modern takes on the classic doll toy. While Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling play the original and first Barbie and Ken, complete with platinum blonde hair and dazzling smiles to boot, the last two decades have seen a great boost in diversity for the Mattel brand. What's more, the Barbie ladies have also got jobs, and crucially, not everyone is blonde.
The second trailer for Barbie is finally here and we’re getting a bigger and better glimpse at the world director Greta Gerwig has created!
is back with a new sneak peek of its colorful cast of characters. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling star as Barbie and Ken in the highly anticipated new film from Greta Gerwig, out this summer. 's star-studded cast also includes America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, Emerald Fennell, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Hari Nef, Ariana Greenblatt, Sharon Rooney, Scott Evans, Rhea Pearlman, and Will Ferrell. Little is known about the plot, but many of the film's stars are rumored to be playing alternate versions of Barbie and Ken, which was seemingly confirmed when the movie posters were released on Tuesday. «Meet our Barbies and Kens ✨#BarbieTheMovie,» read the caption of the posters, which feature Robbie, Ben-Adir, Dua Lipa, Scott Evans and more stars. A post shared by BARBIE (@barbiethemovie)A second post showing Gosling seems to tease another character: «Meet more Barbies and Kens, and Allan… #BarbieTheMovie.»A post shared by BARBIE (@barbiethemovie)Meanwhile, the next post featuring Ferrera reads, «And, meet the Humans.
Charna Flam Margot Robbie comes to life as the famous figurine in the official trailer for Warner Bros.’ “Barbie.” Oscar nominee Robbie leads a star-studded cast that includes a muscular Ryan Gosling as Barbie’s boy toy, Ken. The two actors are not the only Barbie and Ken dolls in the film. Dua Lipa stars as mermaid Barbie, for instance, alongside many other actors as different iterations of the famous doll. The first “Barbie” trailer — featuring a nod to Stanley Kubrik’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” — officially introduced the world to Robbie’s Barbie, but it didn’t reveal too much about the characters or storyline. Since then it has been revealed that Barbie and Ken have been placed in the real world and forced to wrestle with the difficulties of no longer being just dolls.
We finally know the full cast list for the Barbie movie and know who everyone is portraying!