Barbenheimer

The 96th Annual Academy Awards returned to the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 10. The awards show began an hour earlier than previous years, starting at 4 p.m. For many viewers at home, the most talked-about night in Hollywood was also the conclusion of the nearly yearlong Barbenheimer saga. today we are officially saying goodbye to one of the most iconic era in cinematic history pic.twitter.com/ef3n76nuSR — َ (@popcultfilm) March 10, 2024 Fans enjoyed various moments between the cast of the “Barbie” Movie such as Ryan…

Actors Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt brought the "Barbenheimer" rivalry to the stage while presenting a special tribute to stunt performers, which also included a still from the Indian film `RRR`. The two co-stars were both nominated for supporting actor Oscars this year. Blunt for "Oppenheimer", Gosling for "Barbie" and playfully roasted the rivalry between the two blockbusters. "I`m just happy that we can finally put this `Barbenheimer` rivalry aside," Gosling told Blunt on the stage. "The way this award season has…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAt last year’s Baftas, a number of things happened: a two-hour-and-a-half German-language film won Best Picture; Irish actors swept the supporting categories; and a Californian heartthrob picked up the Best Actor award for playing a Mississippian heartthrob. These moments, however, have been almost totally erased in our collective memory in favour of a short rap interval in which…

Baftas 2024 host David Tennant hailed the simultaneous releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer as a turning point for cinema.The two films both came out in the UK on 21 January 2023, prompting the widespread use of the portmanteau to refer to the cultural phenomenon surrounding their release.Barbie and Oppenheimer have since grossed $1.44bn and $954m respectively.Speaking from the red carpet ahead of Sunday’s (18 February) ceremony, the Doctor Who star, 52, said: “It almost marked a return to going out... we had those very odd…

The 2023 Barbenheimer phenomenon was something that had to be experienced to be believed. When it was announced that Greta Gerwig’s hilarious feminist take on Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s cerebral biopic Oppenheimer would both be released on July 21st, some thought a double billing would be hysterical. The two films could not be more different, and memes about a double feature ended up taking over the internet. People ended up buying tickets to both films on opening weekend, leading to a massive big box office turnout…

Image: ParamountMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One finally came to theaters last year after a longer than expected wait due to COVID. If you decided to wait for it to hit streaming, good news: it’s hitting Paramount+ next Friday, January 25.Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023But when it arrives there, it’ll be dropping the “Part One” from its subtitle. It’s been known for a few years that it and its eventual follow-up were coming as a two-part package deal that was originally meant…

While Barbenheimer might have been the dominating box office story of 2023, the new year promises a new kind of battle as the two hit movies compete for awards, kicking off this weekend with the Golden Globes.Greta Gerwig’s Mattel comedy Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb drama Oppenheimer both lead this year’s field with eight and seven nominations apiece and while they are mostly competing in separate genre categories – comedy/musical and drama – it’s likely the two films will still monopolise the night. Last…

Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s crime epic set in 1920s Osage County, is leading the pack alongside Barbie and Oppenheimer at the first stage of voting for this year’s Bafta film awards.The film, which has 15 nods on the longlist and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, is toe to toe with this summer’s box office victors Barbie and Oppenheimer, which also have 15 mentions apiece.Yorgos Lanthimos’s steampunk feminist comedy horror Poor Things follows with 14, followed by Leonard…

Hallucination, Barbenheimer and acabó were among the new and breakthrough words of 2023, according to an analysis of the Guardian archive. And do you have “rizz”?Dozens of new words appeared on the newspaper’s pages this year. And while the majority of these relate to people and placenames previously unrecorded on the news pages, some words were truly newly minted.Foremost in this list was the unlikely phenomenon that was Barbenheimer, a portmanteau of two films released on the same day but light years apart in terms of…

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