Damien Chazelle’s $80M 1920s-set Hollywood epic Babylon went up in a blaze of fire at the domestic box office this past weekend with a $5.3M four-day start
four-day start, lower than its anticipated $5.3M outlook on Monday morning.Say what you will about harsh winter conditions impacting moviegoing across the country, however, this movie, which was greenlit by a previous Paramount regime and greatly supported by the new Brian Robbins administration, was against the odds as soon as it previewed to a cynical press more than a month ago at the Academy theater to lackluster reviews at 56% Rotten Tomatoes.
BABYLON, from left: Kaia Gerber, Li Jun Li, 2022. ph: Scott Garfield / Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collectiona choice to see over the holidays even though there’s a lack of adult competition. According to finance sources, it’s too soon to determine how much bleeding will go on here because the Robbie-Pitt movie doesn’t start its overseas rollout until mid-January.
Important to note that in the new Covid era, whatever a movie grosses at the box office hasn’t shown to impair its Oscar chances. And there are several examples to prove that, a chief case being Searchlight’s 2021 Best Picture Winnerwhich did single-digit grosses and on which the Disney arthouse label never reported the pic’s official ticket sales.is lucky to hit $20M which puts an immense amount of pressure on overseas to deliver, meaning another $230M which is mission impossible.
made 57% of its $105M WW total overseas. Japan, South Korea, UK and France were key territories for that movie, as well as for Chazelle’s multi-Oscar winnermade $11.3M domestic and $39.6M WW.‘s results, it’s important to distinguish the movie from all others. The pic with its inside-Hollywood period tale was already a gamble, not to mention its hard ‘R’ story which in the first 30 minutes before the title credit includes an elephant pooping on a human and a Fatty Arbuckle-type getting defecated on by a hooker. Robbie’s Clara Bow-like character vomits at a stuffy Hollywood soiree much later in the film.
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