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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
Fay Watson

Barbie’s marketing budget was reportedly bigger than the film itself, but it’s clearly been worth it

Margot Robbie in Barbie

If you’ve been within a few meters radius of a movie theater recently, you will no doubt have felt the Kenergy. Seas of pink-clad cinemagoers have been attending sold-old screenings of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, giving the movie the best box office opening of 2023 so far.

This has been a long time coming too, with Barbie's marketing campaign for the movie stretching back months. There were real dreamhouses on Airbnb, Ryan Gosling going method when talking about Ken, and a whole host of impeccable Barbie-themed outfits from lead actor and producer Margot Robbie.

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