Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

It's the sweetest way to start the month. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online ...

It's about a year late, but the Barbie Phone is finally here. This is not a smartphone, but a clamshell-style feature phone that's all pink and branded with Mattel's Barbie logo. The handset has a ...

Attention all Barbies and Kens who like to have the latest accessory: Stanley just announced a new collaboration with the iconic brand. The drinkware company will be launching a Barbie-inspired line ...

The inclusive world of Barbie is expanding yet again — this time, with the first-ever blind Barbie doll and a Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Toy manufacturer Mattel announced the two new additions ...

Eric Bridges, CEO of American Foundation for the Blind, tells PEOPLE that the new Barbie "can help get blindness out into society in a way that is accurate and attention-getting" Mattel Barbie is ...

Netflix’s 'Black Barbie' tells the story of how the first Black Barbie came to be — and the lasting impact she left behind Courtesy of Netflix Barbie dolls first hit the shelves in 1959 — but it would ...

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more ...

Wags on social media were quick to joke: It was just like the plot of the Barbie movie. A pair of charismatic, smart, girl-power entertainment figures – responsible for the only billion dollar movie ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

There’s no shortage of coverage on Barbie’s box office dominance, the result of bold filmmaking and a marketing launch that was more of a pop culture takeover than an ad campaign. The film became the ...

The Barbie movie begins with a parodic nod to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, where in the opening scene, the appearance of a black obelisk signals a milestone in the evolution of ...