Barbie

After a social media storm swirled in Japan after the U.S. social media accounts for the Barbie movie acknowledged the “Barbenheimer” mashup memes, Warner Bros.

It’s the summer of Barbenheimer in the west, as the twin successes of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer have bought a soothing balm to an industry wracked by uncertainty, and plenty of memes

The summer movie season is often one of the most stable periods of the year: studios show off their big tentpoles (usually about a superhero, or something close to one) whose primary goal is to be crowd pleasers and make a lot o