💬 Quoted… "Dinosaurs and Spielberg ... and now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig."

In a recent interview with Collider, Barbie producer and star Margot Robbie revealed the pitch to try and get studios to greenlight the movie revolved around how profitable pairing a big idea with a visionary director (in this case, Greta Gerwig) has been for studios. “I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?!”

• As they say – shoot for the stars and maybe you’ll land on the clouds. While not quite the three-comma club, when all’s said and done analysts project Barbie’s box office could land somewhere around $500 million worldwide (which, considering the movie reportedly cost ~$145 million to make, wouldn't be too shabby).

🚘 Stat of the Day: Car thefts in the US have more than doubled since 2019 (+104.3%), per a new report from the Council on Criminal Justice. And the trend is like a vehicle driving into oncoming traffic – it keeps going the wrong way. Thefts are up roughly 34% since this time last year.

🤔 Did You Know?... America technically had a national speed limit of 55 MPH from 1974 through 1995, though the law was widely disregarded by motorists across the country.

📰 Worth a Read: Why so many brands use sound to make you buy stuff → (The Hustle)