People walk past a promotional poster of film 'Barbie' in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO — The Japan opening of the hit film 'Barbie' was dealt additional setbacks as an online petition gained steam calling on Hollywood studios to disavow a grassroots marketing movement that made light of nuclear holocaust. A Change.org petition collected more than 16,000 signatures over two days as of Thursday, demanding that Warner Bros and Universal Pictures, the studio behind the 'Oppenheimer' biopic, call a halt to the 'Barbenheimer' hashtag that has helped make the film a global blockbusters.

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