To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place.
Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.
From Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig
(“Little Women,” “Lady Bird”) comes “Barbie,” starring
Oscar-nominees Margot Robbie (“Bombshell,” “I, Tonya”) and Ryan
Gosling (“La La Land,” “Half Nelson”) as Barbie and Ken, alongside
America Ferrera (“End of Watch,” the “How to Train Your Dragon”
films), Kate McKinnon (“Bombshell,” “Yesterday”), Michael Cera
(“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “Juno”), Ariana Greenblatt
(“Avengers: Infinity War,” “65”), Issa Rae (“The Photograph,”
“Insecure”), Rhea Perlman (“I’ll See You in My Dreams,” “Matilda”),
and Will Ferrell (the “Anchorman” films, “Talladega Nights”). The
film also stars Ana Cruz Kayne (“Little Women”), Emma Mackey
(“Emily,” “Sex Education”), Hari Nef (“Assassination Nation,”
“Transparent”), Alexandra Shipp (the “X-Men” films), Kingsley
Ben-Adir (“One Night in Miami,” “Peaky Blinders”), Simu Liu
(“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”), Ncuti Gatwa (“Sex
Education”), Scott Evans (“Grace and Frankie”), Jamie Demetriou
(“Cruella”), Connor Swindells (“Sex Education,” “Emma.”), Sharon
Rooney (“Dumbo,” “Jerk”), Nicola Coughlan (“Bridgerton,” “Derry
Girls”), Ritu Arya (“The Umbrella Academy”), Grammy Award-winning
singer/songwriter Dua Lipa and Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (“The
Queen”).
Gerwig directed “Barbie” from a screenplay by
Gerwig & Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story,” “The Squid
and the Whale”), based on Barbie by Mattel. The film’s producers are
Oscar nominee David Heyman (“Marriage Story,” “Gravity”), Robbie,
Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, with Michael Sharp, Josey McNamara,
Ynon Kreiz, Courtenay Valenti, Toby Emmerich and Cate Adams serving
as executive producers.
Gerwig’s creative team behind
the camera included Oscar-nominated director of photography Rodrigo
Prieto (“The Irishman,” “Silence,” “Brokeback Mountain”), six-time
Oscar-nominated production designer Sarah Greenwood (“Beauty and the
Beast,” “Anna Karenina”), editor Nick Houy (“Little Women,” “Lady
Bird”), Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (“Little
Women,” “Anna Karenina”), visual effects supervisor Glen Pratt
(“Paddington 2,” “Beauty and the Beast”), music supervisor George
Drakoulias (“White Noise,” “Marriage Story”) and Oscar-winning
composer Alexandre Desplat (“The Shape of Water,” “The Grand
Budapest Hotel”).
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a
Heyday Films Production, a LuckyChap Entertainment Production, a
Mattel Production, “Barbie.” The film will be distributed worldwide
by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters only nationwide on
July 21, 2023 and beginning internationally on July 19, 2023.