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  • MWC 2024: HMD Announces Barbie Flip Phone

    Feature phones are making a comeback with HMD reporting Flip Phone sales alone more than doubled in Europe (2022 vs 2023) and expects further growth in 2024.

  • Will Ferrell forums Margot Robbie’s ‘Barbie’ film at Warner Bros

    By way of PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actor Will Ferrell is the most recent to enroll in the star-studded solid of Warner Bros’ “Barbie” film, led through Margot Robbie.

    Gerwig is directing the film from a script she co-wrote along with her filmmaker spouse Noah Baumbach.

    Ferrell, 54, joins Robbie in addition to actors Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey and The us Ferrera within the venture.

    In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrell is alleged to be taking part in the CEO of a toy corporate that can or now not be Mattel.

    Along with starring, Robbie is generating the film underneath her LuckyChap Leisure banner together with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara.

    Mattel’s Robbie Brenner and David Heyman also are on board as manufacturers.

    LuckyChap’s Josey McNamara and Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz will function govt manufacturers.

    Ferrell was once closing observed in Netflix film “Eurovision”, co-starring Rachel McAdams and Pierce Brosnan.

    He additionally gave the impression in Apple TV’s black comedy sequence “The Shrink Subsequent Door” with Paul Rudd.

  • Ariana Greenblatt joins Margot Robbie-fronted ‘Barbie’

    Through PTI

    LOS ANGELES: “A Quiet Position” kid megastar Ariana Greenblatt is the newest to board Warner Bros’ “Barbie”, a movie centred at the iconic doll line from Mattel.

    Directed by means of Greta Gerwig, the film stars Margot Robbie within the name position and Ryan Gosling as Ken.

    It’s unknown who 14-year-old Greenblatt might be taking part in, reported Closing date.

    Additionally a part of the ensemble forged are The united states Ferrara, Kate McKinnon and Simu Liu Plot main points are unknown and Gerwig co-wrote the script along with her spouse, filmmaker-writer Noah Baumbach.

    Robbie is generating the movie underneath her LuckyChap Leisure at the side of manufacturing banner’s Tom Ackerley.

    Robbie Brenner additionally will produce “Barbie” thru Mattel, as will David Heyman by the use of Heyday Motion pictures.

    LuckyChap’s Josey McNamara and Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz are hooked up to govt produce the film.

    Greenblatt will subsequent be noticed in Eli Roth’s “Borderlands” adaptation and the mystery “65”, a Sony movie.

  • Civil Rights Icon Ida B. Wells Is Venerated With A Barbie Doll

    Famed Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells is the newest feminine historic icon to be immortalized as a Barbie doll.

    Mattel’s Barbie emblem introduced that Wells was once the newest addition to its Inspiring Ladies sequence, which spotlights function fashions who prepared the ground for generations of women.

    “When youngsters know about heroes like Ida B. Wells, they don’t simply believe a greater long run ― they know they have got the facility to make it come true,” the corporate stated.

    Wells, born into slavery right through the Civil Warfare, fought racism, sexism and violence in her paintings as a distinguished journalist who uncovered injustices in opposition to Black other folks within the South within the overdue nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She led an anti-lynching motion, traveled national and in a foreign country to reveal the apply at nice private chance, and went on to take part within the founding of the NAACP.

    Different Barbies within the assortment have integrated Maya Angelou, Florence Nightingale, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Billie Jean King and Ella Fitzgerald.