The summer of 2023 will likely be remembered as the season where audience members came back to the movies. It actually began when The Super Mario Bros. Movie took off at the box office, becoming the first movie this year to cross the $1 billion mark. That movie soon would be joined by Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which stars Margot Robbie as the titular hero and continues to dominate at the box office, setting all sorts of miraculous records for Warner Bros. While reflecting on the push of moviegoers returning to multiplexes in droves, NATO Executive Vice President and General Counsel Jackie Brenneman compared the sensation around Barbie to another powerhouse blonde who took America by storm this summer… Taylor Swift.
