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List of Barbie films
Barbie, a fashion doll manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel, has starred or featured in 52 animated feature films and streaming television films since 2001, which has become a core component of an eponymous media franchise.
In response to a growing rise of digital and interactive media as well as the gradual decline of the sales in dolls, toys and accessories in the 1980s, Mattel collaborated with animation studios to produce films which were broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States from 2002 and released on home video formats, originally by Family Home Entertainment and successor Lionsgate, then predominantly by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, both until 2017. From 2012 onward, Mattel expanded the franchise beyond just the films to other audiovisual media such as web series, television shows and streaming television content, with the latter following the growing trend of streaming services and online platforms. In 2020, Mattel revamped the films into streaming television films, branding them as animated "specials" and integrating them into the canon of the inaugural television show in the "Barbie" media franchise, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures.
A 2023 live-action film featuring the character and toyline was theatrically released by Warner Bros. and Mattel Films, alongside LuckyChap Entertainment and Heyday Films. Its release became part of a suggested double-feature phenomenon named Barbenheimer.
News broke from inside sources on 16 August 2024, following the success of the live-action film, that Mattel announced plans for a theatrically released animated Barbie film, with Illumination from Universal Pictures as a potential production partner and the respective director and lead star of that film, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, are said not to be involved. The project was confirmed to have entered development on July 17, 2025.
Mattel launched its eponymous in-house entertainment division in 2001 and began the Barbie film series by adapting pre-existing stories/tales, with CGI animation provided by Canadian studio Mainframe Entertainment. Elise Allen introduced original storylines to the series through screenwriting the main entries of the Barbie: Fairytopia franchise. In between their co-productions, American studio Curious Pictures pitched in by animating The Barbie Diaries (2006).
In 2007, Mainframe was acquired by local post-production company, Rainmaker Animation and Visual Effects, rebranding it as Rainmaker Animation initially and then Rainmaker Entertainment the following year. The films during this period were originally distributed on VHS and DVD by Artisan Entertainment and Family Home Entertainment from 2001 until 2004, when both were acquired by and folded into Lionsgate. In 2006, Mattel ceased distribution of the films on VHS and focused solely on DVD; at the same time, Universal (which already held their foreign distribution rights) took over the domestic distribution rights, after negotiations with Lionsgate broke down over the low amount offered by Mattel to continue distributing future Barbie films. Lionsgate was permitted to continue distribution of the titles released by them up to The Barbie Diaries for several years after; these rights eventually reverted to Mattel, who then authorized Universal to begin reissuing these titles.
Based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann and The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, this inaugural film in the series stars Barbie narrating to her younger sister, Kelly, a story about a young girl named Clara who gets a beautiful wooden nutcracker from her aunt Elizabeth as a Christmas gift. Later that night, the toy comes alive to protect Clara from the evil Mouse King's soldiers. Clara gets shrunk to toy size, and, along with her brave Nutcracker, she searches for a magical Sugarplum Princess to reverse a spell.
This 2nd entry based on the classic tale by the Brothers Grimm stars Barbie as Princess Rapunzel, who is trapped in a tall tower by an evil witch named Gothel. Hidden from the outside world, Rapunzel spends much of her day painting and dreaming of a happier life. After many years alone, Rapunzel goes on a journey with her friends Penelope and Hobie to look for her happily ever after life with Prince Stefan.
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Barbie, a fashion doll manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel, has starred or featured in 52 animated feature films and streaming television films since 2001, which has become a core component of an eponymous media franchise.
In response to a growing rise of digital and interactive media as well as the gradual decline of the sales in dolls, toys and accessories in the 1980s, Mattel collaborated with animation studios to produce films which were broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States from 2002 and released on home video formats, originally by Family Home Entertainment and successor Lionsgate, then predominantly by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, both until 2017. From 2012 onward, Mattel expanded the franchise beyond just the films to other audiovisual media such as web series, television shows and streaming television content, with the latter following the growing trend of streaming services and online platforms. In 2020, Mattel revamped the films into streaming television films, branding them as animated "specials" and integrating them into the canon of the inaugural television show in the "Barbie" media franchise, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures.
A 2023 live-action film featuring the character and toyline was theatrically released by Warner Bros. and Mattel Films, alongside LuckyChap Entertainment and Heyday Films. Its release became part of a suggested double-feature phenomenon named Barbenheimer.
News broke from inside sources on 16 August 2024, following the success of the live-action film, that Mattel announced plans for a theatrically released animated Barbie film, with Illumination from Universal Pictures as a potential production partner and the respective director and lead star of that film, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, are said not to be involved. The project was confirmed to have entered development on July 17, 2025.
Mattel launched its eponymous in-house entertainment division in 2001 and began the Barbie film series by adapting pre-existing stories/tales, with CGI animation provided by Canadian studio Mainframe Entertainment. Elise Allen introduced original storylines to the series through screenwriting the main entries of the Barbie: Fairytopia franchise. In between their co-productions, American studio Curious Pictures pitched in by animating The Barbie Diaries (2006).
In 2007, Mainframe was acquired by local post-production company, Rainmaker Animation and Visual Effects, rebranding it as Rainmaker Animation initially and then Rainmaker Entertainment the following year. The films during this period were originally distributed on VHS and DVD by Artisan Entertainment and Family Home Entertainment from 2001 until 2004, when both were acquired by and folded into Lionsgate. In 2006, Mattel ceased distribution of the films on VHS and focused solely on DVD; at the same time, Universal (which already held their foreign distribution rights) took over the domestic distribution rights, after negotiations with Lionsgate broke down over the low amount offered by Mattel to continue distributing future Barbie films. Lionsgate was permitted to continue distribution of the titles released by them up to The Barbie Diaries for several years after; these rights eventually reverted to Mattel, who then authorized Universal to begin reissuing these titles.
Based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann and The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, this inaugural film in the series stars Barbie narrating to her younger sister, Kelly, a story about a young girl named Clara who gets a beautiful wooden nutcracker from her aunt Elizabeth as a Christmas gift. Later that night, the toy comes alive to protect Clara from the evil Mouse King's soldiers. Clara gets shrunk to toy size, and, along with her brave Nutcracker, she searches for a magical Sugarplum Princess to reverse a spell.
This 2nd entry based on the classic tale by the Brothers Grimm stars Barbie as Princess Rapunzel, who is trapped in a tall tower by an evil witch named Gothel. Hidden from the outside world, Rapunzel spends much of her day painting and dreaming of a happier life. After many years alone, Rapunzel goes on a journey with her friends Penelope and Hobie to look for her happily ever after life with Prince Stefan.