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Full Moon Features is gearing up to go into production on their “crazy, candy-colored” comedy Barbenheimer, which was inspired by the portmanteau we all saw a thousand times last summer, as movie-goers headed out for double features of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Full Moon founder Charles Band took to social media to let us know that Barbenheimer will begin filming on April 8th, aiming for a summer 2024 release.

In this post, Band tagged his wife, actress Robin Sydney, genre icon Barbara Crampton, legendary drive-in movie critic and TV host Joe Bob Briggs, and Joe Bob’s “mail girl” Darcy, a.k.a. Diana Prince. We’ll have to wait and see if that means Sydney, Crampton, Joe Bob, and Prince are all going to appear in the movie.

Barbenheimer will be telling the story of Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer, a brilliant scientist doll living in Dolltopia, a world of endless summers and beach parties,...

Full Moon Features hasn’t yet gone into production on their “crazy, candy-colored” comedy Barbenheimer, but the film’s title is already famous, since that was the portmanteau was all saw a thousand times this past summer, as movie-goers headed out for double features of Barbie and Oppenheimer. So it makes sense that they’re already selling T-shirts and hoodies with the film’s title and poster art on it. Images of those items can be seen at the bottom of this article, and they can be purchased at This Link.

Barbenheimer will be telling the story of Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer, a brilliant scientist doll living in Dolltopia, a world of endless summers and beach parties, and her boyfriend Twink Dollman. Dr. Barbenheimer, incensed by the brutal treatment the dolls receive at the hands of human children, ventures into the real world, where she experiences humanity at its worst and,...

Back in August, the mad geniuses at Full Moon Features announced that they will be taking the portmanteau Barbenheimer – which we all saw a thousand times this summer, as movie-goers headed out for double features of Barbie and Oppenheimer – and turning it into a movie of its own. Now producer and Full Moon founder Charles Band has taken a moment to talk to both The Hollywood Reporter and People about Barbenheimer, describing it as a “crazy, candy-colored romp”.

Barbenheimer will be telling the story of Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer, a brilliant scientist doll living in Dolltopia, a world of endless summers and beach parties, and her boyfriend Twink Dollman. Dr. Barbenheimer, incensed by the brutal treatment the dolls receive at the hands of human children, ventures into the real world, where she experiences humanity at its worst and, naturally, decides to build a giant nuclear bomb to take it all out.

It’s B-Movie Barbie! Survivors of this summer’s “Barbenheimer” phenomenon will get the chance to catch a feature-length film nominally inspired by the dual July premiere weekend of Greta Gerwig’s Mattel toy reimagining Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s explosive biopic Oppenheimer.

Barbenheimer, from prolific low-budget filmmaker and Puppet Master series creator Charles Band, will focus on Dr. Bambi J. Barbenheimer, a scientist doll living in Dolltopia with her boyfriend Twink Dollman, who becomes disillusioned with humans’ treatment of dolls and decides to build a giant nuclear bomb to destroy the real world. Fittingly, the synopsis reads: “They got great looks and a super attitude! Oh, and now they’ve got the bomb.”

Despite the apocalyptic stakes, Barbenheimer will actually try to add some levity to a box office that’s taken itself too seriously lately, according to Band. “It’s so silly,” the director told The Hollywood Reporter.

Film industry cynics may take one look at a newly announced low-budget comedy called Barbenheimer and a poster that uses Barbie’s iconic pink font over a picture of a nuclear explosion and features the tagline “D-Cup, A-Bomb,” and immediately assume it’s simply a shameless attempt to cash in on a very recent cultural phenomenon. And those cynics would be absolutely correct, says Charles Band, the prolific B-movie icon who has been making low-budget horror comedies since the early 1970s.

“It’s 100 percent true,” he says. “But it’s also an opportunity to have fun with the bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe and the darkness of Oppenheimer. You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humor.”

Barbenheimer, selling at the American Film Market (where else?) with Amp, follows Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer, a brilliant scientist doll living in Dolltopia,...

News Den Of Geek Feb 8, 2013

Comedy and geekery arrives in London, at The Geekatorium. details here...

From The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Red Dwarf, the worlds of geekdom and comedy have had a long and happy association, and lately they seem to be closer than ever. In recent times we've had Dara O Briain doing maths on the telly, comics such as Robin Ince and Helen Keen educating us about science on the radio, and the likes of Toby Hadoke speaking about their nerdy passions at the Edinburgh Festival.

Continuing that grand tradition, February 10th sees the launch of The Geekatorium, a London-based comedy night promising a mixture of stand-up, sketches, live music and improvisation, with acts invited to come along and perform material on the subjects they're most passionate about, be that Star Wars or Sartre – no subject is off limits. “I wanted The Geekatorium to be...