Hey, it worked for Barbie. Mattel's next feature film based on a doll will be a live-action, theatrical Monster High movie written and produced by Akiva Goldsman and distributed by Universal Pictures.

"Monster High" is one of many film projects in the ... repeat the commercial and critical triumph that was Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," which grossed $1.4 billion at the global box office last year ...