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Barbenheimer is the latest Hollywood couple, and an unlikely one at that.
The social and entertainment media mash up of « Barbie » and « Oppenheimer, » two big-budget movies released Friday, is what people are buzzing about, and many are planning to see the films together, as a double feature. The two films don’t seem like they’d go together, but in the run-up, they’ve become a thing.
« They are two, non-sequel, original movies are being released at the same time, » said Carly Gomez, 26, of Grosse Pointe Woods, who headed into a 9 a.m. Saturday showing of « Oppenheimer » at the Emagine Royal Oak theater with boyfriend Matt Burns, also 26, of Grosse Pointe Woods. « And they are just so different. »
They were meeting up with another couple, who planned to later see « Barbie, » for a double feature, double date.
One film is a comedy based on a doll; the other is a biopic about the making of the atomic bomb.
