.Barbie is projected to top $1 billion in ticket sales by the end of this weekend
, “Barbie” star/producer Margot Robbie recalled telling Warner Bros. execs that the movie had the potential to make a billion bucks when she first pitched the project, but admitted she was “overselling” how much money it could make.
“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” she said, describing the idea of multiple Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig directing. “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that — pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years,” she added. “And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.
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