Barbie

Warner Bros. Apologizes After ‘Barbenheimer’ Posts Sparks Backlash from Studio’s Japan Unit

TOKYO — The Japanese distributor of the Warner Bros. movie “Barbie” has apologized for its U.S. parent company’s reaction to social media posts about the “Barbenheimer” blitz that combined images of Barbie and a mushroom cloud. The memes triggered criticisms in Japan for what many described as minimizing the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The marquee for the Los Feliz Theatre features the films "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie," Frida

Vietnam Bans ‘Barbie’ Movie over Pro-China Map

Vietnam banned the upcoming film Barbie from theaters on Monday because a scene in the film shows a map with China’s “Nine-Dash Line” in it, a fictitious border the regime in Beijing created that puts almost the entire South China Sea under Chinese control.

Vietnam on Monday banned the upcoming film Barbie from theaters because a scene in the fi