‘Babylon’ Flops Hard At Box Office, Won’t Recoup $80M Production Budget: Report

“Babylon” underperformed expectations at the box office over Christmas weekend, leaving industry insiders to speculate that the film won’t break even financially.

Damien Chazelle’s $80 million historical comedy-drama The golden age of Hollywood Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt starred in the movie. There was certainly hype behind it. Moviegoers chose to not buy tickets to the movie. “Babylon,” The result was a poor $5.3 million opening in four days.

Deadline reports that the film will need to gross $250 million to turn a profit. reportedThis means that the majority of that money will now need to come from abroad. The publication noted that it’ll be almost impossible to achieve that amount even though one insider said the movie’s three hour plus runtime won’t be a hindrance in Europe like it is in the United States.

The movie was nominated multiple times for Golden Globe awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress. However, both critics as well as audiences are not impressed by its film. The movie currently has a 55% new critic rating. Rotten Tomatoes A 49% audience score.

Salon’s reviewer said Observe “Babylon” It was an “exasperating” experience, saying, “It tries to do too much but ends up doing not saying very little. Less would have been more.”

“What a sprawling, grotesque, self-indulgent, wretched, occasionally mesmerizing but ultimately over-the-top mess we have in Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood epic ‘Babylon,’ which one imagines was supposed to be a lurid and show-stopping and unvarnished celebration of the hedonistic madness that enveloped the movie business in the 1920s but comes across as a three-hour plus attack on our senses — a flashy, sometimes dazzling but curiously uninvolving and often nauseatingly gross spectacle,” Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times agreed. 

He spoke out about some of the most graphic scenes in the movie, such as an elephant urinating at the beginning.

“We’re also ‘treated’ to scenes of a woman urinating on an obese party animal; a sad-sack moron getting his head stuck in a toilet; a muscle-bound and crazed giant of a man munching on a live rat, and various showbiz types getting coked up and liquored up and on and it goes,” Roeper continued by saying “Babylon” We will be there for you “feeling like you need to take a shower” By the end.

Being gross isn’t the only complaint people have about this hyped-up film about Hollywood’s history. “What’s really, truly embarrassing is how completely sure Damien Chazelle is that he’s absolutely nailing every scene in this movie,” One reviewer noted.

Many audience reviews mention that “Babylon” Was “too long” “boring,” plus didn’t have enough character development. 

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