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The toy company is copying the Marvel blueprint with UNO, Hot Wheels, Barney and more – and we're already tired

After the success of the Barbie movie, Mattel announced a Polly Pocket film, and the internet has some thoughts.

It features some unconventional adaptations

Mattel reported financial earnings Wednesday. Impacts from the Barbie movie remain to be seen, but she still stole the show.

Pre-release expectations were already “stratospheric”, but the unlikely pairing of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” around the world has “helped fuel the biggest collective weekend at the box office since the pandemic”, said Rebecca Rubin in Variety – music to the ears of their respective film studios, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal,…

The Barbie movie is being celebrated (and slammed) as a feminist film, with its themes of female empowerment and critiques of the patriarchy. Can the same be said for the doll at the center of it?

‘That was just like the opposite of what it was like working there,’ woman says of Barbie movie

Toy company reports Q2 earnings per share of 10 cents, exceeding expectations; anticipates further monetization of IP

‘That was just like the opposite of what it was like working there,’ woman says of Barbie movie