“After ‘Barbie,’ Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox”:

I.P.-based filmmaking has become so commonplace that Gerwig—who made her name acting in tiny mumblecore projects—was caught off guard by complaints that she’d sold out.

I.P. being, of course, the acronym for intellectual property — amusing, since there is absolutely nothing intellectual about the properties in question. The movies have never been so colorful yet depressing as they are now.