A 'real life' Barbie models her outfits, car and home on the famous doll - but fears her obsession will stop her finding love.
26.06.2023 - 20:29 / deadline.com
Barbie’s Dreamhouse has enjoyed a wave of media attention of late, with Margot Robbie giving Architectural Digest an in-character tour of the set from Greta Gerwig’s upcoming movie, Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice striking poses at the pink property in their new “Barbie World” music video, an interactive version of the house on display at the World of Barbie exhibit in Santa Monica, an HGTV four-part Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge competition series set to debut July 16, a new insurance commercial from Progressive featuring the pink manse and the New York Times’ recently publishing and exhaustive exploration of the totemic toy through the decades.
Then, over the weekend, a hot pink citadel popped up in a Malibu looking very much like the living embodiment of the Dream itself.
Aerial footage posted by KCAL News’ helicopter cameraman John Schreiber shows a three-story dwelling replete with the iconic dance floor and a second story pink slide feeding into a swanky zero edge pool that containing giant floating letters that spell out “K-E-N.” As if that weren’t plain enough, Mattel’s famous sunburst Barbie logo appears on what looks to be a step-and-repeat. Curiously, however, the name “Ken” seems to be written in blue over the top of “Barbie.”
Spotted this thing from 10 miles away flying over #Malibu today. Is that a…. real life #Barbie Malibu House?? Seems to be. Pink everything… a water slide… floating "KEN" letters. Publicity stunt? Huge Barbie fans? Filming location #BarbieMovie ? Who knows. @kcalnews pic.twitter.com/6x9gEcFoVf
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A 'real life' Barbie models her outfits, car and home on the famous doll - but fears her obsession will stop her finding love.
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plays the real-life Barbie in the $100 million live-action “Barbie” movie coming to theaters on July 21.Depending on who a Barbie fan believes, however, the genuine, in-the-flesh Barbie who inspired the doll is either the late Barbie Ryan or the now 82-year-old Barbara Handler Segal.The two origin stories could not be more different. Either Barbie exists thanks to one man’s obsession with the “perfect woman” — or because of an apparently sweet story revolving around a mother’s love for her two children.But both come with far darker sides than the innocent child’s toy would suggest, including orgies, sex toys, embezzlement, AIDS, and suicide.The battle over who really inspired Barbie only exploded into the open decades after the doll made her debut at the International Toy Fair in New York in 1959.She was an immediate hit: 11 inches tall, long-legged, slim-waisted, perky-breasted and either blonde or brunette, dressed in a hand-made black and white swimsuit, and soon after advertised on The Mickey Mouse Club.
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“Barbie” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. HGTV is onboard too, with its new reality competition show “Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge,” which counts HGTV star Tiffany Brooks among its judges. “My immediate reaction [to being asked on the show] was ‘Of course.’ I didn’t care what else I had planned. I needed to be there,” Brooks told The Post. “Having been on some of their competition shows before, I know that all of the network stars eat, breathe and live to be competitive,” she said.
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The Barbie soundtrack, to its credit, has produced more memorable pop moments than most major motion picture soundtracks. Highlights include Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj's "Barbie World" (which interpolates Aqua's "Barbie Girl" and is now a top 10 hit), Charli XCX softening up the edges of her Vroom Vroom era for "Speed Drive," and PinkPantheress mixing club music, '90s pop, and Irish fiddle for the delightful and supremely weird "Angel." On Thursday, K-pop group FIFTY FIFTY and Kaliii kept the streak going with "Barbie Dreams," the soundtrack's latest cut.
Barbie, Mattel’s next film will focus on the brand’s beloved purple dinosaur, Barney.Said Barney film will see Get Out and Nope‘s Daniel Kaluuya serve as a producer, with the actor previously saying via a press statement: “Barney was a ubiquitous figure in many of our childhoods, then he disappeared into the shadows, left misunderstood. We’re excited to explore this compelling modern-day hero and see if his message of ‘I love you, you love me’ can stand the test of time.”While it unclear if Kaluuya will also star in the film, a Mattel Film executive has newly revealed in an interview with the New Yorker that the movie will take on a “surrealistic” approach geared towards adults.“We’re leaning into the millennial angst of the property rather than fine-tuning this for kids,” Mattel Films exec Kevin McKeon said about the Barney movie.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director With Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” gearing up for box office domination this month, the movie is being eyed as a launching pad for Mattel Films. The studio has dozens of more films in the pipeline based on its toys and popular IP, including a Barney movie with Daniel Kaluuya. The “Get Out” Oscar nominee and “Us” star first attached himself to Mattel’s Barney movie in 2019, and a new profile of Mattel Films published by The New Yorker confirms the project remains in development. Mattel Films executive Kevin McKeon told The New Yorker that the Barney movie is “surrealistic” and in the vein of films directed by Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Those directors are probably not the first two filmmakers one thinks of when the family-friendly Barney name comes up.
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she confessed to the New York Times. “I felt really spoiled,” Eastwood said, noting that she was part of a limited cast and crew on set in the shoot’s first days and even had her own trailer.She also got to wear the same exact pretty-in-pink costumes made for Robbie, as the two share identical measurements.“They didn’t make anything for me specifically,” she said.