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A sequel to the Barbie movie is already in the works, according to an industry insider.
The success of the Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling has all but cemented a follow-up.
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“Crew who worked on the ‘Barbie’ film have been contacted to discuss working on the follow-up,” a source told The Sun.
“It is very early days, but it’s become apparent that bosses want the same crew for the sequel as they did for the first.
“Emails have been sent but firmer details have to be finalised.”
Barbie has broken numerous records since opening and the hit film is close to breaking another one.
The film seems destined to gain the top spot for highest grossing film of 2023 in the US.
It raked in a stunning $155 million in the US in its opening week alone, and last week it joined the $1 billion club in global box office sales – a feat only achieved by about 50 films in history.
The combined release of Barbie and Oppenheimer, dubbed “Barbenheimer”, has become a pop culture sensation and one that might revive the struggling movie theatre industry.
Together, “Barbenheimer” was the fourth highest-grossing industry weekend of all time in North America, totalling $302 million.
“I’ve been in this game for 30 years and the ‘Barbie’ and ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon is as unprecedented as it was unpredictable,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told CNN.
He added the movie’s marketing campaign was the first sign Barbie would be a box office smash.
“The marketing campaign for Barbie set into motion a chain of events that led to the word Barbenheimer being added to the popular lexicon by virtue of its shared release date with Oppenheimer, and that’s when we all knew something very special and unique was going to create a much bigger than expected outcome for the film, not only for the opening weekend, but for its global run in theatres,” Dergarabedian said.
In an interview with Collider last month, Margot Robbie, who produced the movie in addition to playing the titular character, shared a premonition she had at a greenlight meeting with studios.
“I think I told them they’d make a billion dollars which, maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make!” she said.
– with CNN
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