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 an awful $5.3M 4-day start. BABYLON, Brad Pitt, 2022. © Pa…
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 Margot Robbie-Brad 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, that hasn’t shown to impair its Oscar chances. And there’s several examples to prove that, 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 box office.is lucky to hit $20M which puts an immense amount of pressure for 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, $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. Who was the audience for this aside from critics and awards voters? Movies about the inner workings of Hollywood were always low grossers historically.
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