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'Barbie' music producer Mark Ronson is calling out Bill Maher for bashing the billion-dollar hit film. Ronson oversaw the 'Barbie' soundtrack album and also co-produced and co-wrote several of the movie's standout songs, including "I'm Just Ken."

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00:00 Barbie music producer Mark Ronson is calling out Bill Maher for bashing the billion-dollar hit film.

00:05 Ronson oversaw the Barbie soundtrack album and also co-produced and co-wrote several of the

00:11 movie's standout songs, including "I'm Just Ken." The music producer and songwriter took to social

00:21 media on Tuesday to share his thoughts on the talk show host calling the movie "preachy,

00:25 man-hating, and a zombie lie." Ronson, imitating Nicole Kidman's famous AMC ad, wrote,

00:31 "We come to this place for magic. We come to AMC theaters to laugh, to cry, to care,

00:36 and to furiously Google Mattel board configuration while others are trying to enjoy a

00:41 magnificent comedy." Maher posted a four-paragraph response to the film Wednesday on social media,

00:46 in which he wrote, "Okay Barbie, I was hoping it wouldn't be preachy, man-hating, and a zombie lie.

00:52 Alas, it was all three. What is a zombie lie? Something that never was true, but certain people

00:57 refuse to stop saying it. Or something that used to be true but no longer is, but certain people

01:02 pretend it's still true. Barbie is this kind of zombie lie." Maher went on to address several

01:07 different parts of the film, including how the fictionalized Mattel board in the movie consists

01:12 of 12 white men. Maher wrote, "The real Mattel board is a pretty close mirror of the country,

01:17 where 45% of the 449 board seats filled last year in Fortune 500 companies were women."

01:23 He continued, "Barbie is fun. I enjoyed it. But it is a zombie lie."

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