{"id":1926936,"date":"2023-05-08T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-barbie-end-margot-robbies-streak-of-box-office-flops\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:05:01","slug":"can-barbie-end-margot-robbies-streak-of-box-office-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-barbie-end-margot-robbies-streak-of-box-office-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Will &#8220;Barbie&#8221; break Margot Robbie&#8217;s box office losing streak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcan-barbie-end-margot-robbies-streak-of-box-office-flops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926936&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Is Margot Robbie Finally Breaking Her Box Office Curse with &#8220;Barbie&#8221;?<\/h2>\n<p>The new Warner Bros. movie \u201cBarbie\u201d looks poised to be one of the summer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zoey-saldana-makes-box-office-history-after-four-films-cross-incredible-milestone\/\" title=\"Zoey Saldana Makes Box Office History After Four Films Cross Incredible Milestone\">big box office hits<\/a>. It\u2019s got everything going for it: A fun and instantly recognizable brand, sex appeal and a creative team of Hollywood darlings.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been renewed interest in the beachy doll in the lead-up to the film\u2019s July 21 release, with Mattel-backed pop-up cafes making news and pink \u201cBarbiecore\u201d fashion becoming a legitimate wardrobe trend.<\/p>\n<h3>Robbie&#8217;s Box Office Struggles<\/h3>\n<p>But, somewhat surprisingly, it\u2019s the final name on the aforementioned list that gives me the most pause. Robbie, 32, is a phenomenal actress without a doubt, but she\u2019s drawn to box office bombs like flies to rotting meat.<\/p>\n<p>Why would an actress with so much skill and appeal, as natural in prestige dramas as she is at the Met Gala, struggle so much to put butts in seats?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is a combination of factors. Several of Robbie\u2019s biggest roles came during the pandemic; the actress has often latched onto flimsy franchises; and some of her projects have been just plain heinous.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, though, Robbie was sitting pretty. \u201cThe Big Short,\u201d \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d and the first \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d all were popular hits.<\/p>\n<p>Then, things went south right after 2018\u2019s \u201cI, Tonya,\u201d the Tonya Harding biopic that grossed a modest $53.9 million off an $11 million budget and earned Robbie a Best Actress Oscar nomination (she lost to Frances McDormand in \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Cue the Flop Parade. Her 2018 \u201cTerminal,\u201d a thriller starring Simon Pegg and Mike Myers, grossed an impossibly low $843,970. The true-life film \u201cBombshell\u201d that she co-starred in with Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron in 2019 got mixed reviews and grossed only $62 million of a $32 million budget before marketing costs. And her 2018 go at playing Queen Elizabeth I, \u201cMary Queen of Scots,\u201d made no waves either.<\/p>\n<p>She also slumped in her more recent DC Comics as Harley Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirds of Prey,\u201d which was released in February 2019, lost $50 to 100 million according to Variety. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-a-lister-claims-male-directors-throw-the-biggest-hissy-fits\/\" title=\"Hollywood A-Lister Claims Male Directors \u2018Throw The Biggest Hissy Fits\u2019\">female-led movie<\/a> with a largely female cast might\u2019ve been a turn-off for superhero-loving audiences (though that didn\u2019t hurt DC\u2019s \u201cWonder Woman\u201d). Also, the film was just really odd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Suicide Squad\u201d fared even worse, taking in a measly $168.5 million after its Aug. 2021 release. Although brick-and-mortar theaters were having difficulty re-opening then, Disney\u2019s \u201cFree Guy\u201d did double that business the very same month. Same goes for Marvel\u2019s \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u201d in September.<\/p>\n<p>But it was 2022 that was a real shocker. Robbie starred in two \u201cdisasters,\u201d as one Hollywood source told The Post, that were primed to be major Oscars players and \u2014 due to star wattage \u2014 expected to do respectable business.<\/p>\n<p>The first was \u201cAmsterdam,\u201d director David O. Russell\u2019s unwieldy history piece about a little-known attempted coup against the US government. The October drama starred Christian Bale, Chris Rock, Taylor Swift, Robert De Niro, John David Washington and a slew of other heavy hitters. But it was atrocious, grossed a paltry $32 million \u2014 losing an estimated $100 million for 20th Century Studios \u2014 and went totally un-nominated during award season.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later came an even-surer thing \u2014 \u201cBabylon.\u201d Robbie\u2019s co-star was Brad Pitt, one of the few remaining A-list actors who can still, occasionally, lure audiences to theaters on his fame alone. The director was Damien Chazelle, whose \u201cLa La Land\u201d was a critical favorite ln 2016. And it was a lush, but seedy, backlot showbiz story (like Robbie\u2019s one oasis of success, 2019\u2019s \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood\u201d). It crashed and burned, losing an estimated $150 million.<\/p>\n<h3>Can &#8220;Barbie&#8221; Save Robbie&#8217;s Box Office Reputation?<\/h3>\n<p>Can \u201cBarbie\u201d prevent Robbie from earning that dreaded old industry moniker \u201cbox office poison\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated flick, whose every trailer release becomes a major event and inspires social media memes, should reverse course for Robbie. One producer said the movie was bound to be an enormous success and is effectively \u201ccritic proof,\u201d whether it\u2019s ultimately good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope so. Because, for now, she\u2019s a Barbie girl in a flop world.<\/p>\n<h3>More From Johnny Oleksinski<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Leave Meg Ryan and Bridget Fonda alone, losers<\/li>\n<li>2023 Tony Award nominations reflect a rocky Broadway season<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3&#8217; review: A grotesque, exhausting adventure<\/li>\n<li>Kudos to Steven Spielberg for speaking out against wacko censorship<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;New York, New York&#8217; review: Broadway musical can&#8217;t make it here, anywhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More From: Johnny Oleksinski Leave Meg Ryan and Bridget Fonda alone, losers 2023 Tony Award nominations reflect a rocky Broadway season &#8216;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3&#8217; review: A grotesque, exhausting adventure Kudos to Steven Spielberg for speaking out against wacko censorship &#8216;New York, New York&#8217; review: Broadway musical can&#8217;t make it here, anywhere The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9754,8660,5324,8371,10835,5660,10836,20619],"class_list":["post-1926936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-barbie","tag-box","tag-break","tag-losing","tag-margot","tag-office","tag-robbies","tag-streak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}