The Barbie Effect on Female Filmmakers

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Matt is joined by The Hollywood Reporter’s senior film editor, Rebecca Keegan, to discuss how the success of Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ will influence female filmmakers and the industry at large. Matt finishes the show by giving a prediction about the upcoming negotiations between the WGA and the AMPTP. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Rebecca Keegan Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.9	By most calculations, the Barbie movie from Greta Gerwig should cross a billion dollars worldwide sometime in the next week.
1:28.5	And if it continues on this trajectory and gets to 1.3 billion,
1:33.7	which I think it will, it would join the top 20 movies of all time worldwide, not accounting for inflation. That's pretty nuts, considering if you look at that current top 20 list,
1:38.2	there are only three films with female protagonists, the Frozen Movies and Titanic.
1:43.3	And those are either directed or co-directed by men.
1:46.7	In fact, USC's Inclusion Initiative puts out numbers on female film directors in general,
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