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For more than 25 years, Barbie’s animated life existed exclusively on home video shelves. That era is officially over. Illumination and Mattel Studios finalized a partnership in July 2025 to develop ...

Who could forget Barbie? It was the pop culture moment of 2023. Like, truly, the moment. From the Barbiecore pink explosion to viral collabs with brands like Stanley, Crocs and even Burger King, ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more ...

A new Barbie film is on the way, though it is not a sequel to the live-action adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Though details on the project are scarce, it has been reported that ...

Today, Deadline reported that Mattel Studios has finalized a deal with Illumination to develop a new Barbie movie, which will make it the first animated Barbie film created for theaters. The report ...

“Barbie” – the movie – was a smash success, hauling in over $1.4 billion globally to become the biggest movie of 2023. But that was just Mattel’s first entry into Hollywood, as the storied toy company ...