Judd Apatow has directed such comedy films as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Trainwreck, among others. Despite his recent The King of Staten Island and The Bubble going straight to streaming, he still believes comedy films have a place in theaters. “The highest-grossing comedy last year made over a billion dollars.
Barbie was a comedy,” Apatow said in an interview with Cinemablend. Barbie is “not a drama,” Apatow said. “There are some emotional moments in it, but it’s just wall-to-wall jokes.
There’s something about it where I feel like no one wants to give comedy the win there. Like, why can’t we say Barbie is a comedy?
What other category would it be?” Apatow thinks the genre just needs “another hit or two” to mount its theatrical comeback, citing Hollywood’s propensity to imitate success.
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