This is Black Panther for white girls, which I thought was kind of funny. Nobody wanted to leave from my experience. They wanted to stay through the credits. Everybody was waiting for something to be revealed during the credits. Fun fact about that scene, you know, they tested many different versions of a final scene. Greta Gerwig wanted the one that ended up in the movie and others I won't name did not want the movie to end on that joke. And she went out and people seemed to love it.
Hollywood is still shut down by its historic dual strike, but this weekend the industry saw its most explosive box office numbers of the year. So far, Barbie has made over 200 million domestically and Oppenheimer has surpassed 100 million. So are the movies back in business? Or is BarbenHeimer a cultural phenomenon that will be impossible to replicate?
Kara discusses this question with a panel that includes entertainment reporter Matthew Belloni, producer Franklin Leonard and communications expert Brooke Hammerling.
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