#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering 5M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes M

#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering $155M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes $77M

The summer box office just went nuclear. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s female-fueled Barbie started off with a stupendous $70.5 million on Friday, including $22.3 million in previews. If early modeling is correct, the Warner Bros. movie is headed for a historic $155 million-plus opening domestically, a threshold usually reserved for male-driven superhero fare or marquee IP…

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#Greta Gerwig on Adding an Author Proust “Easter Egg” in ‘Barbie’, Connection to ‘Oppenheimer’

#Greta Gerwig on Adding an Author Proust “Easter Egg” in ‘Barbie’, Connection to ‘Oppenheimer’

The playful rivalry between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues. Not only has the films’ release dates being on the same day, July 21, started a “Barbieheimer” phenomenon across social media but the two movies, with completely contrasting themes, have some other similarities. During a recent interview with the Associated Press, published online…

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#‘Cocaine Bear’ Star Alden Ehrenreich on Lord Miller Reunion, ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Ironheart’ and Falling Behind on ‘Star Wars’

#‘Cocaine Bear’ Star Alden Ehrenreich on Lord Miller Reunion, ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Ironheart’ and Falling Behind on ‘Star Wars’

‘Cocaine Bear’ Star Alden Ehrenreich on Lord Miller Reunion, ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Ironheart’ and Falling Behind on ‘Star Wars’ Years from now, when Alden Ehrenreich looks back on his Cocaine Bear experience, he’s not going to recall dancing with the title character first and foremost. He’s instead going to think of the two producers who surprised him…

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#NBCUniversal Inks Major Film/TV Deal With Germany’s SevenOne Entertainment

#NBCUniversal Inks Major Film/TV Deal With Germany’s SevenOne Entertainment

NBCUniversal Inks Major Film/TV Deal With Germany’s SevenOne Entertainment NBCUniversal Global Distribution has signed a major licensing deal in Germany, inking a multi-year agreement for several thousand hours of programming with German broadcasting group Seven.One Entertainment. The deal, the largest of its kind for the two companies in the territory, gives Seven.One digital, streaming and…

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