Barbie co-writer/director Greta Gerwig dug in when it came to actor Ryan Gosling‘s big dance number, “I’m Just Ken.”
Studio executives questioned the part in the script that indicated: “And then it becomes a dream ballet and they work it out through dance.” Gerwig envisioned that number to mirror the iconic, “Singing in the Rain.” She won her argument with executives but later held her breath, wondering if her gut was right.
‘Barbie’ needed a ‘dream ballet’
Gerwig recalled being summoned into a “big meeting” where she was asked “‘Do you need this?’” she recalled, People reports.
“I was like, ‘Everything in me needs this,'” Gerwig said. “They were like, ‘What do you even mean? What is a dream ballet?’ And I was like, ‘A dream ballet? Where do I begin!'”
The scene in question was set in an empty room filled with Kens dressed in black.
Studio executives questioned the part in the script that indicated: “And then it becomes a dream ballet and they work it out through dance.” Gerwig envisioned that number to mirror the iconic, “Singing in the Rain.” She won her argument with executives but later held her breath, wondering if her gut was right.
‘Barbie’ needed a ‘dream ballet’
Gerwig recalled being summoned into a “big meeting” where she was asked “‘Do you need this?’” she recalled, People reports.
“I was like, ‘Everything in me needs this,'” Gerwig said. “They were like, ‘What do you even mean? What is a dream ballet?’ And I was like, ‘A dream ballet? Where do I begin!'”
The scene in question was set in an empty room filled with Kens dressed in black.
- 10/10/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
HGTV Bargain Block house-flipping stars Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas admit they had no idea what they were in for when they moved from Denver, Colorado to Detroit, Michigan.
The construction and design couple found house flipping in Denver “cost prohibitive” so they sought an emerging market with promise: Detroit.
“The market was really tricky to navigate and you had to have just so much cash. So we were looking for a market that would have made our job a little easier,” Bynum explained to Showbiz Cheat Sheet.
“So a little over six years ago I flew out on my birthday actually to Detroit, never been here,” he admitted. “Saw eight houses. Put offers on two, we got one of them and we sold our place in Colorado and moved out here. We thought the house was livable, but it wasn’t. It looked nice from the outside. And then when I got here,...
The construction and design couple found house flipping in Denver “cost prohibitive” so they sought an emerging market with promise: Detroit.
“The market was really tricky to navigate and you had to have just so much cash. So we were looking for a market that would have made our job a little easier,” Bynum explained to Showbiz Cheat Sheet.
“So a little over six years ago I flew out on my birthday actually to Detroit, never been here,” he admitted. “Saw eight houses. Put offers on two, we got one of them and we sold our place in Colorado and moved out here. We thought the house was livable, but it wasn’t. It looked nice from the outside. And then when I got here,...
- 9/23/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Push a pink button and champagne is served. Or turn a purple crank handle on the plastic bedroom wall and voilà – here comes the handbag of your dreams.
What Barbie Dreamhouse fan didn’t wish that they too could actually live the Barbie life inside their pink plastic home? Well, now they can – sort of.
On July 16, Barbie lovers’ dreams will come to life on HGTV‘s Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge! Eight design teams tackle a specific room in a hand-selected home with the challenge of transforming it into a specific Barbie era.
Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge finale | HGTV
Guided by a Barbie superfan and historian, the design teams are tasked with re-creating a Barbie Dreamhouse room. The design should include their signature flair, but also the iconic and often futuristic gadgetry found in most Barbie Dreamhomes.
Design star Tiffany Brooks and guest stars will judge the competition. And the winning team...
What Barbie Dreamhouse fan didn’t wish that they too could actually live the Barbie life inside their pink plastic home? Well, now they can – sort of.
On July 16, Barbie lovers’ dreams will come to life on HGTV‘s Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge! Eight design teams tackle a specific room in a hand-selected home with the challenge of transforming it into a specific Barbie era.
Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge finale | HGTV
Guided by a Barbie superfan and historian, the design teams are tasked with re-creating a Barbie Dreamhouse room. The design should include their signature flair, but also the iconic and often futuristic gadgetry found in most Barbie Dreamhomes.
Design star Tiffany Brooks and guest stars will judge the competition. And the winning team...
- 7/16/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: Hgtv has raised the stakes for its upcoming home renovation competition series Rock The Block.
In the series, top home reno experts Mina Starsiak Hawk (Good Bones), Alison Victoria (Windy City Rehab), Leanne Ford (Restored by the Fords) and Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential) go head-to-head in a showdown to max-out four identical properties and add the most property value to each home. With just four weeks and an individual budget of a $175,000, the competitors must renovate and design such spaces as a master suite, kitchen, great room and outdoor living space.
At the end of each weekly challenge, a special guest star from Hgtv will judge the rooms and crown a winner, who will land a showcase of her own Hgtv series immediately following the one-hour airing of Rock the Block.
Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop) will judge the reveals of the master suites, Mike Holmes (Holmes & Holmes) will review the kitchens,...
In the series, top home reno experts Mina Starsiak Hawk (Good Bones), Alison Victoria (Windy City Rehab), Leanne Ford (Restored by the Fords) and Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential) go head-to-head in a showdown to max-out four identical properties and add the most property value to each home. With just four weeks and an individual budget of a $175,000, the competitors must renovate and design such spaces as a master suite, kitchen, great room and outdoor living space.
At the end of each weekly challenge, a special guest star from Hgtv will judge the rooms and crown a winner, who will land a showcase of her own Hgtv series immediately following the one-hour airing of Rock the Block.
Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop) will judge the reveals of the master suites, Mike Holmes (Holmes & Holmes) will review the kitchens,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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