Assistant, Independent Producer, AI Barbie Pitches for Mattel Women in Film – The Hollywood Reporter
After Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar triumph Barbie film, Mattel recently revealed that its annual Barbie “Career of the Year” collection will feature women in films. Four puppets were announced — a studio executive, a director, a cinematographer, and a movie star — prompting some on the social networking site
“Where’s the screenwriter Barbie?” Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Emmy-nominated writer, is published Fleishman is in trouble. “Doesn’t Mattel know how to make sweatpants? Doesn’t Mattel know how to put avocado toast on a shirt and leave it there?”
the wire “There is no set of keys for PA Barbie who has to go to the Movie Star Barbie trailer and tell the delicate flower to get to work because 120 other angry Barbies are waiting for her,” creator David Simon wrote. “This movie taught Mattel nothing.”
And where the heck is Barbie Academy to overlook Barbie’s contributions behind it Barbie?!
While it may be too late, Hollywood Reporter It has Mattel pitches for new Women in Film Barbies, with more realistic accessories and designs THR Commissioned by Sports journalism.
Barbie’s assistant
Assistant Barbie has a can-do spirit but Gen Z’s insistence on work-life balance makes her bosses feel very uncomfortable and old. But there are still all the trappings of the classic Assistant Dream Office™ experience: multiple phones, crying in the bathroom, and parents and guardians wondering about post-graduation options. And when things get desperate, when the people at the top don’t retire, when morale is low but wages are even lower, when she reads about another reorganization of her company into the professions, she reminds herself: There’s always law school!
Barbie visual effects
VFX Barbie has been pulling 80-hour work weeks so studios can prepare her release calendars after the Hollywood double-take. And speaking of unions, she’d love to get in on the action, if only her company would stay in business long enough to unionize. Meanwhile, its managers will ignore its very existence. Unless, of course, critics point out that the visual effects in their films weren’t good, in which case they’ll throw her work under the bus.
Independent producer Barbie
Indie producer Barbie is keeping it together thanks to a good mix of Xanax, illusion, and good slippers. It comes complete with a writer director, a disgruntled line producer, and a network TV star who wants an awards play but can only give them six shooting days. It’s a good thing that years of hard fundraising work and mountains of personal debt hinge on social media posts from people who may or may not have been at the Sundance screening.
Below the line Barbie
Below the line Barbie comes with accessories (and outfits) for 40 different poses. She also comes with months of productions in a row that she feels like she can never say no to, so playtime never ends! It’s the lifeblood of Hollywood and they can’t do anything without it. When she is sick, the producers ask her to find her replacement for the day. She really can do it all!
Ai Barbie
In a Malibu dream house somewhere between Topanga Canyon and Uncanny Valley, lives AI Barbie, waiting for the right contractual loophole. Do you look like Margot Robbie? Does she look a bit like Jennifer Lawrence? Does it look kind of like a waking nightmare? Yes! And she has the right number of fingers too. After leaving the industry on its knees for six months, it was put back in its box. But as one studio executive told her, “It’s just a simple no.” There’s no rush because they always take advantage of technology!
This story first appeared in the January 18 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.