It is laborious to understate simply how a lot of a world phenomenon Barbie was. Boosted by its unlikely partnership with Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning biopic Oppenheimer, Greta Gerwig‘s feminism-fueled comedy wasn’t only a field workplace smash; it was additionally a essential darling. The Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-led favourite was nominated for a formidable eight Academy Awards, sadly solely successful a single trophy for Greatest Authentic Music.
However the greatest repercussion of Barbie‘s monocultural mania is the indication to studio executives that audiences are hungry for toy-based motion pictures, particularly these from Mattel. The newest of this new movie phenomenon is Matchbox: The Film, primarily based on the toy model of the identical title that originated in 1953. The movie first hit streaming on October 9 and was instantly met with critiques that could not be farther from Barbie‘s.
There’s little probability that Matchbox: The Film finally ends up as a part of the awards dialog. “The stellar forged deserves so significantly better than this,” mentioned Shawn Van Horn in certainly one of a number of poor critiques the movie obtained, with the forged in query led by John Cena and together with Sam Richardson, Jessica Biel, Arturo Castro, Teyonah Parris, and Danai Gurira. However these poor critiques have not stopped the movie from proving standard on streaming. On the time of writing, Matchbox: The Film has surpassed the 30-day mark on the Apple TV prime ten within the U.S., and ranks because the most-watched film on the platform worldwide. Extraction‘s Sam Hargrave directed the movie, with David Coggeshall writing the script.
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Matchbox: The Film may’ve hit a formidable streaming milestone, nevertheless it’s not presently the most-watched film on Apple TV within the U.S. That title goes to Barbie star Ryan Gosling‘s 2016 gem, The Good Guys, during which he starred alongside Russell Crowe as a pair of unlikely investigators wrapped up in a conspiracy. It won’t have confirmed successful upon arrival, however a decade later, The Good Guys is taken into account one of many defining cult classics of the 2010s and top-of-the-line fashionable installments in each Gosling and Crowe’s careers.
Matchbox: The Film has surpassed the 30-day mark on the Apple TV prime ten within the U.S. Ensure that to remain tuned to Collider for all the newest streaming tales.
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October 9, 2026
- Runtime
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127 minutes
- Writers
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David Coggeshall
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Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Don Granger, Jules Daly, Robbie Brenner, Ynon Kreiz
