Before Margot Robbie was Barbie, she was Harley Quinn, Naomi Lapaglia, Tonya Harding, and many more characters. There's no doubt Robbie loves her job as an actor, and while tackling the role of an iconic children's toy wasn't initially on her career bucket list, it's clear she's happy she took a chance with the role.
A month before the highly anticipated July 2023 release of "Barbie," Robbie spoke to Vogue about how playing the role never even crossed her mind. "It wasn't that I ever wanted to play Barbie, or dreamt of being Barbie, or anything like that," she explained. "This is going to sound stupid, but I really didn't even think about playing Barbie until years into developing the project."
And while "Barbie" might arguably be Robbie's most hyped-up movie in her career so far, it's by no means the only role she's slayed. Take a look back at Robbie's best movies below.
A month before the highly anticipated July 2023 release of "Barbie," Robbie spoke to Vogue about how playing the role never even crossed her mind. "It wasn't that I ever wanted to play Barbie, or dreamt of being Barbie, or anything like that," she explained. "This is going to sound stupid, but I really didn't even think about playing Barbie until years into developing the project."
And while "Barbie" might arguably be Robbie's most hyped-up movie in her career so far, it's by no means the only role she's slayed. Take a look back at Robbie's best movies below.
- 7/21/2023
- by Jessica Vacco-Bolanos
- Popsugar.com
Babylon is a movie written and directed by Damien Chazelle (First Man) starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt.
Babylon is a movie which from its failure in the box office recalls the echoes of Intolerance (1915), in which they built those sets with elephants that were so grandiose, in a film making style of another era and an impossible dream, disconcerting, ambitious and almost orgiastic spirit.
About the Movie
Babylon captures all of this spirit from a grandiose production which did not convince the more traditional audience.
Babylon (2022)
This movie tries to reconstruct the chaos experienced in the first Hollywood times, the arrival of sound, the excesses, disconcerting situations and the fight to not wake up from an impossible dream and, in some way, reconstruct that lost Babylon that the creator of modern cinema, David Wark Griffith tried to find too.
This is a movie with a stellar cast (Margot Robbie...
Babylon is a movie which from its failure in the box office recalls the echoes of Intolerance (1915), in which they built those sets with elephants that were so grandiose, in a film making style of another era and an impossible dream, disconcerting, ambitious and almost orgiastic spirit.
About the Movie
Babylon captures all of this spirit from a grandiose production which did not convince the more traditional audience.
Babylon (2022)
This movie tries to reconstruct the chaos experienced in the first Hollywood times, the arrival of sound, the excesses, disconcerting situations and the fight to not wake up from an impossible dream and, in some way, reconstruct that lost Babylon that the creator of modern cinema, David Wark Griffith tried to find too.
This is a movie with a stellar cast (Margot Robbie...
- 7/21/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Gofer and quick-witted fixer Manny Torres (Diego Calva) effortlessly determines how to haul an overstuffed elephant up a steep hill to a Bel Air party, sneak a dead body out of said packed bacchanal and satisfy his producer boss’ black-tie dress code with minimal financial means.
“It’s actually not even a tuxedo. It’s cobbled together,” says Babylon costume designer Mary Zophres, who received her fourth Oscar nomination for her work on the sprawling ode to Hollywood. It’s her second nom for collaborating with director Damien Chazelle, after 2016’s La La Land.
Zophres imagined Manny taking precious care of his only white, but now-yellowed, dress shirt, modeled after an original late-1920s button-down with gathers on the sleeves and shoulder yoke. “He hand-washes it. He line-dries it, and he has a way to press it,” she says.
Manny likely resourcefully borrowed the mismatched jacket and bow tie from the producer’s suited henchmen.
“It’s actually not even a tuxedo. It’s cobbled together,” says Babylon costume designer Mary Zophres, who received her fourth Oscar nomination for her work on the sprawling ode to Hollywood. It’s her second nom for collaborating with director Damien Chazelle, after 2016’s La La Land.
Zophres imagined Manny taking precious care of his only white, but now-yellowed, dress shirt, modeled after an original late-1920s button-down with gathers on the sleeves and shoulder yoke. “He hand-washes it. He line-dries it, and he has a way to press it,” she says.
Manny likely resourcefully borrowed the mismatched jacket and bow tie from the producer’s suited henchmen.
- 3/7/2023
- by Fawnia Soo Hoo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
- 2/27/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Babylon (2022).Hollywood has been making movies about movies for almost as long as there have been movies. This is not surprising given the town’s penchant for self-mythologizing; the dramatic potential of silver-screen fame, always an Icarus flight on wax wings melting in the California sun; and the allure of a glimpse behind the scenes into the factory where the dreams are made. It would be hypocritical to mock the self-importance of a place that exerts such an inexhaustible fascination—on me, I own, and probably on you—and Hollywood’s addiction to turning the cameras on itself has produced a few masterpieces of clear-eyed ambivalence. It has also revealed, even in less successful efforts, a strain of insecurity and self-loathing under the celebratory tinsel. Some films portray the industry as crass and cruel, spitting out used-up stars and corrupting artistic integrity; some exploit chaotic, unhinged movie sets for laughs or thrills.
- 2/3/2023
- MUBI
You can tell filmmakers are worried about the future of cinema. James Cameron is demanding that we all give Imax escapism another go in his three-hour Avatar sequel. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is offering a fictionalised look at his childhood fascination with movie magic. And Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light has Olivia Colman whimsically gushing over the power of the big screen experience – like that viral Nicole Kidman advert, only more sincere. But if the ending of Babylon is anything to go by, Damien Chazelle is clearly the most worried director of all.
Yet another ode to the majesty of movies, Babylon concludes with a nauseatingly saccharine sequence: a flourishing, Oscars-style montage, pulling together clips of various notable films throughout history. Spanning from the silent era to the 21st century, it features everything from Un Chien Andalou and The Passion of Joan of Arc, to Tron, Terminator 2,...
Yet another ode to the majesty of movies, Babylon concludes with a nauseatingly saccharine sequence: a flourishing, Oscars-style montage, pulling together clips of various notable films throughout history. Spanning from the silent era to the 21st century, it features everything from Un Chien Andalou and The Passion of Joan of Arc, to Tron, Terminator 2,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Chris Edwards
- The Independent - Film
You can tell filmmakers are worried about the future of cinema. James Cameron is demanding that we all give Imax escapism another go in his three-hour Avatar sequel. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is offering a fictionalised look at his childhood fascination with movie magic. And Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light has Olivia Colman whimsically gushing over the power of the big screen experience – like that viral Nicole Kidman advert, only more sincere. But if the ending of Babylon is anything to go by, Damien Chazelle is clearly the most worried director of all.
Yet another ode to the majesty of movies, Babylon concludes with a nauseatingly saccharine sequence: a flourishing, Oscars-style montage, pulling together clips of various notable films throughout history. Spanning from the silent era to the 21st century, it features everything from Un Chien Andalou and The Passion of Joan of Arc, to Tron, Terminator 2,...
Yet another ode to the majesty of movies, Babylon concludes with a nauseatingly saccharine sequence: a flourishing, Oscars-style montage, pulling together clips of various notable films throughout history. Spanning from the silent era to the 21st century, it features everything from Un Chien Andalou and The Passion of Joan of Arc, to Tron, Terminator 2,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Chris Edwards
- The Independent - Film
Babylon is Damien Chazelle’s rocket-powered dive into the early days of Hollywood, decorated with orgies, elephant faeces and cocaine. There is spanking. Bacchanalian dancing. Chairs tossed through windows. And that’s all in the first 15 minutes. La La Land, Chazelle’s Oscar-winning, Bambi-eyed paen to artists, poets and the “fools that dream”, would drop dead from fright if it ever came face-to-face with it.
Tailor-made to divide audiences, this debauched drama – and a clear repudiation to those who once accused Chazelle of being too sentimental a director – puts a bullet in the head of any notion that the film industry’s silent era was ever austere or quaint. This was a frontier time, where the art of cinema was built from the ground up with zero rules and very little restraint. It was a place where the soul-sick and hungry could reinvent themselves, but not without considerable personal cost.
Tailor-made to divide audiences, this debauched drama – and a clear repudiation to those who once accused Chazelle of being too sentimental a director – puts a bullet in the head of any notion that the film industry’s silent era was ever austere or quaint. This was a frontier time, where the art of cinema was built from the ground up with zero rules and very little restraint. It was a place where the soul-sick and hungry could reinvent themselves, but not without considerable personal cost.
- 1/21/2023
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
In 1952, Singin’ in the Rain delivered an indelible celluloid portrait of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Released some 70 years later, but during the same tumultuous transition from silent pictures to the ‘Talkies’, Babylon is both a call and response to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s masterpiece, beautifully speaking to the timeless allure of cinema. In a little over three hours, Damien Chazelle masterfully captures the wonder and eccentricities of stardom, and does so with such panache that it’s easy to see Babylon becoming an all-time classic.
The eyes and ears of the story belong to Manny Torres (Diego Calva), a Mexican-American film assistant who aspires to more. Yet Manny is not alone in his intoxication with cinema. Early on, he meets the effervescent Nellie LeRoy (Margot Robbie), an actor hoping to find her way onto the silver screen. Their respective rises – Manny in the background, Nellie very much...
The eyes and ears of the story belong to Manny Torres (Diego Calva), a Mexican-American film assistant who aspires to more. Yet Manny is not alone in his intoxication with cinema. Early on, he meets the effervescent Nellie LeRoy (Margot Robbie), an actor hoping to find her way onto the silver screen. Their respective rises – Manny in the background, Nellie very much...
- 1/14/2023
- by Luke Walpole
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle is back on the awards circuit with his ode to Old Hollywood, “Babylon.”
The star-studded ensemble film charts the chaos, glory, and mayhem of the City of Angels during the transition between silent films and talkies. Set in the 1920s, “Babylon” immortalizes the A-listers of today by placing them in the context of yesterday’s golden era. Brad Pitt stars as world-weary aging film icon Jack Conrad, who crosses paths with rising starlet Nellie Laroy (Margot Robbie) as she does whatever it takes to reach stardom. The foray into fictionalized film history is told through the eyes of both “Babylon” and real-life Hollywood newcomer Diego Calva, who plays aspiring filmmaker Manny Torres. Outsider Manny’s true love is cinema, and he flirts with the elusive art form as the entire industry is turned on its head.
As an IndieWire exclusive, you can now read the...
The star-studded ensemble film charts the chaos, glory, and mayhem of the City of Angels during the transition between silent films and talkies. Set in the 1920s, “Babylon” immortalizes the A-listers of today by placing them in the context of yesterday’s golden era. Brad Pitt stars as world-weary aging film icon Jack Conrad, who crosses paths with rising starlet Nellie Laroy (Margot Robbie) as she does whatever it takes to reach stardom. The foray into fictionalized film history is told through the eyes of both “Babylon” and real-life Hollywood newcomer Diego Calva, who plays aspiring filmmaker Manny Torres. Outsider Manny’s true love is cinema, and he flirts with the elusive art form as the entire industry is turned on its head.
As an IndieWire exclusive, you can now read the...
- 1/12/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures © 2022 20th Century Studios)
The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.
The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.
The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.
SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler...
The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.
The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.
The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.
SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler...
- 1/11/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The Screen Actors Guild unveiled nominations Wednesday for its 29th annual SAG Awards as the movie awards season arrives full-steam, coming the same week as last night’s Golden Globes and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards.
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The marquee ensemble film award category this year features Paramount’s Babylon, Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, Universal’s The Fabelmans and United Artists’ Women Talking. Banshees and Fabelmans are having a good week, having taken the top film prizes at last night’s Globes.
Banshees and Everything Everywhere led all films with five nominations apiece in today’s noms announcement.
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The marquee ensemble film award category this year features Paramount’s Babylon, Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, Universal’s The Fabelmans and United Artists’ Women Talking. Banshees and Fabelmans are having a good week, having taken the top film prizes at last night’s Globes.
Banshees and Everything Everywhere led all films with five nominations apiece in today’s noms announcement.
- 1/11/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Colin Farrell won best actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy, for The Banshees of Inisherin at the 2023 Golden Globes, marking his second career win in the category.
From the podium, Farrell was quick to thank director Martin McDonagh, who directed him in this film and 2008’s In Bruges, for which the star previously won the same prize. “Martin McDonagh, I owe you so much, man,” Farrell said. “Fourteen years ago, you put me in work with Brandan Gleeson, my dance partner, and you changed the trajectory of my life forever in ways that I, begrudgingly, will be grateful to you for the rest of my days.”
The actor continued, “I never expect films to work or to find an audience, so when they do, it’s shocking to me. So I’m so horrified by what’s happened here on Banshees over the last couple of months in a thrilling kind of way.
From the podium, Farrell was quick to thank director Martin McDonagh, who directed him in this film and 2008’s In Bruges, for which the star previously won the same prize. “Martin McDonagh, I owe you so much, man,” Farrell said. “Fourteen years ago, you put me in work with Brandan Gleeson, my dance partner, and you changed the trajectory of my life forever in ways that I, begrudgingly, will be grateful to you for the rest of my days.”
The actor continued, “I never expect films to work or to find an audience, so when they do, it’s shocking to me. So I’m so horrified by what’s happened here on Banshees over the last couple of months in a thrilling kind of way.
- 1/11/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Diego Calva knows that his experience on Babylon was not traditional. First of all, to get the role of Manny Torres, a wide-eyed striver who moves up the ranks of the film industry in its nascent days, the Mexican actor did “30 or 40” self-tapes. Then he moved into the Los Angeles home of director Damien Chazelle and his wife, producer and actress Olivia Hamilton, for about 12 days. “We rehearsed the whole movie in his backyard, like a bizarre kind of summer camp,” says Calva. In the evening, they’d watch movies and film clips, studying Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon or Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights.
There was a “metafictional” element to Calva’s experience on Chazelle’s ambitious film. Like his character, Calva, 30, is a newbie to Hollywood suddenly in the orbit of some of the biggest stars in the business, in this case Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
There was a “metafictional” element to Calva’s experience on Chazelle’s ambitious film. Like his character, Calva, 30, is a newbie to Hollywood suddenly in the orbit of some of the biggest stars in the business, in this case Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
- 1/7/2023
- by Esther Zuckerman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From giddy highs to tragic lows, writer-director Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is an exhilarating ensemble piece that covers everyone in the motion picture industry from movie stars and studio heads to extras recruited from skid row and animal handlers dealing with elephant dung, and shows how quickly someone can go from one to the other and back again. It’s a film about what Hollywood does to the people who work there — what it gives them, and what it takes away.
Unsurprisingly, given the subject matter, the circumstances of the film’s creation occasionally mirrored the story it was telling, Perhaps the most obvious example of life imitating art was the casting of unknown Diego Calva in the pivotal role of Manny Torres, a character who works his way up from the bottom rungs of the industry to become a pioneering executive. Just as some of the characters in “Babylon...
Unsurprisingly, given the subject matter, the circumstances of the film’s creation occasionally mirrored the story it was telling, Perhaps the most obvious example of life imitating art was the casting of unknown Diego Calva in the pivotal role of Manny Torres, a character who works his way up from the bottom rungs of the industry to become a pioneering executive. Just as some of the characters in “Babylon...
- 1/6/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
This post contains major spoilers for "Babylon" and "Boogie Nights."
Damien Chazelle's newest film, "Babylon," might be one of his biggest swings to date. After his trip to the Moon in "First Man," Chazelle is back in his element, once again telling a story of ambitious dreamers making their way through a beautiful depiction of Hollywood. However, Chazelle crucially takes a big step away from his cleaner image, characterizing 1920s Hollywood through cocaine, chaos, bodily fluids and scandal. The opening scenes of "Babylon" make it definitively clear to the audience that we're not in "La La Land" anymore.
Despite finding himself in edgier, darker territory, Chazelle's reverence for the medium of film and the artists that came before him are as clear as day. Like Chazelle's other films, "Babylon" is a hodgepodge of different influences and inspirations, from a perversion of "Singin' in the Rain," to the ironic amounts...
Damien Chazelle's newest film, "Babylon," might be one of his biggest swings to date. After his trip to the Moon in "First Man," Chazelle is back in his element, once again telling a story of ambitious dreamers making their way through a beautiful depiction of Hollywood. However, Chazelle crucially takes a big step away from his cleaner image, characterizing 1920s Hollywood through cocaine, chaos, bodily fluids and scandal. The opening scenes of "Babylon" make it definitively clear to the audience that we're not in "La La Land" anymore.
Despite finding himself in edgier, darker territory, Chazelle's reverence for the medium of film and the artists that came before him are as clear as day. Like Chazelle's other films, "Babylon" is a hodgepodge of different influences and inspirations, from a perversion of "Singin' in the Rain," to the ironic amounts...
- 1/5/2023
- by Tyler Llewyn Taing
- Slash Film
Typically, director Damien Chazelle and his Oscar-winning editor Tom Cross (“Whiplash”) start cutting a movie from the last scene, since it’s the most challenging. So it went for the “Caravan” showdown in “Whiplash,” the “What if?” epilogue in “La La Land,” and the suspenseful Apollo 11 mission in “First Man.” But for their magnum opus, “Babylon,” they began at the top: The opening bacchanal at the mansion of Kinoscope Studios executive Don Wallach (Jeff Garland), a nearly 30-minute tour de force that sweeps through the colorful cast of characters and sets the manic, hedonistic tone for a Wild West Hollywood caught between silents and talkies in the late ’20s.
“Here we did something different because Damien wanted to make the party to end all parties, and thought it had more of the ingredients of the rest of the movie instead of the end, where we go to these dark places,...
“Here we did something different because Damien wanted to make the party to end all parties, and thought it had more of the ingredients of the rest of the movie instead of the end, where we go to these dark places,...
- 1/5/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" may not have had the best of luck at the box office, but that doesn't necessarily speak to the quality of the movie. The film is a sweeping and bold epic that revels in the chaotic nature of the period in which it's set while also having themes focused on, as Robert Daniels wrote for /Film, "the fight between identity and assimilation." Just as Chazelle put his fascination and love for old Hollywood into the work, the actors he cast for the ensemble were sure to find interesting ways to get into the mindset of their characters. In the case of Diego Calva, who played the role of Manuel "Manny" Torres in the film, Chazelle found a way to get Calva to basically live out the role he would play in the movie.
In "Babylon," Manny is a Mexican immigrant who works odd jobs in Los...
In "Babylon," Manny is a Mexican immigrant who works odd jobs in Los...
- 1/3/2023
- by Ernesto Valenzuela
- Slash Film
There’s a whole other, very rough version of “Babylon” out there.
At a recent Q&a in Los Angeles, director Damien Chazelle revealed that he shot a whole 2-hour version of the film with actors Diego Calva and Olivia Hamilton during rehearsals.
Read More: Brad Pitt Says He Asked ‘Babylon’ Bosses To ‘Write In’ That Margot Robbie Kiss
“It’s a very tight, two-hour version of the entire movie, [filmed] on an iPhone in our backyard,” he said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“We rehearsed the whole movie in his backyard, only Olivia, Damien and I,” Calva recalled. “It was a very uncommon kind of situation.”
In the ’20s Hollywood-set epic, Calva plays assistant-turned-producer Manny Torres, while Hamilton, who is also Chazelle’s wife, plays director Ruth Adler.
Read More: Li Jun Li Dishes On ‘Babylon”s ‘Exhilarating’ On Set Energy, ‘Messy’ Kiss With Co-Star Margot Robbie And ‘Improvising’ With Brad...
At a recent Q&a in Los Angeles, director Damien Chazelle revealed that he shot a whole 2-hour version of the film with actors Diego Calva and Olivia Hamilton during rehearsals.
Read More: Brad Pitt Says He Asked ‘Babylon’ Bosses To ‘Write In’ That Margot Robbie Kiss
“It’s a very tight, two-hour version of the entire movie, [filmed] on an iPhone in our backyard,” he said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“We rehearsed the whole movie in his backyard, only Olivia, Damien and I,” Calva recalled. “It was a very uncommon kind of situation.”
In the ’20s Hollywood-set epic, Calva plays assistant-turned-producer Manny Torres, while Hamilton, who is also Chazelle’s wife, plays director Ruth Adler.
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- 12/28/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is one of the biggest box office bombs of the year, opening to just 5.3 million over the four-day Christmas weekend despite a production budget north of 80 million. Many box office pundits have cited the film’s gargantuan 189-minute runtime as one reason the Hollywood epic failed to connect with audiences. “Babylon” clocks in at three hours and nine minutes long, but it turns out Chazelle has a far shorter and far scrappier version of the film on his iPhone.
During a recent Los Angeles Q&a for the movie (via Entertainment Weekly), Chazelle revealed that he prepared for “Babylon” by filming a two-hour cut of the movie in his backyard. The “La La Land” Oscar winner shot the project on his iPhone. This two-hour version of “Babylon” only starred two actors: Diego Calva, who plays assistant-turned-producer Manny Torres in the film, and Olivia Hamilton, who stars...
During a recent Los Angeles Q&a for the movie (via Entertainment Weekly), Chazelle revealed that he prepared for “Babylon” by filming a two-hour cut of the movie in his backyard. The “La La Land” Oscar winner shot the project on his iPhone. This two-hour version of “Babylon” only starred two actors: Diego Calva, who plays assistant-turned-producer Manny Torres in the film, and Olivia Hamilton, who stars...
- 12/28/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Spike Jonze plays Otto Von Strassberger, Lukas Haas plays George Munn and Robert Clendenin (back) plays Otto’s Assistant Director in Babylon from Paramount Pictures.
LA LA Land director Damien Chazelle gives a different take on the movie industry with ‘s Babylon, focused on Hollywood pre- and post- the transition from silent films to sound, but as if that took place in an alternate reality partly in the 1920s and partly in the late 1970s, eras that share reputations for excess, partying and drugs, although the 1920s had much better clothes.
This tale of a wild silent-era Hollywood opens in 1926, according a title card, at the height of the Hollywood’s Babylon of partying excess and creative freedom and shortly before the debut of talking films brought the party to a halt. The opening sequence features an elephant as studio employee Manny Torres (Diego Calva) negotiating with someone hired to...
LA LA Land director Damien Chazelle gives a different take on the movie industry with ‘s Babylon, focused on Hollywood pre- and post- the transition from silent films to sound, but as if that took place in an alternate reality partly in the 1920s and partly in the late 1970s, eras that share reputations for excess, partying and drugs, although the 1920s had much better clothes.
This tale of a wild silent-era Hollywood opens in 1926, according a title card, at the height of the Hollywood’s Babylon of partying excess and creative freedom and shortly before the debut of talking films brought the party to a halt. The opening sequence features an elephant as studio employee Manny Torres (Diego Calva) negotiating with someone hired to...
- 12/23/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This post contains major spoilers for "Babylon."
Is Damien Chazelle's newest film a love letter to cinema or an ode to a dying medium?
Complete with a staggering three hour runtime, "Babylon" is a bonafide epic of debauchery and bodily fluids (that's right!) that is sure to cause some debate when it opens in theaters this weekend. Like Chazelle's previous movies, "Babylon" initially starts with an ensemble cast of dreamers with high ambitions making their way into the industry, but instead of an optimistic Hollywood tale, it quickly nosedives into something darker and unexpected.
There's a little bit of everything in "Babylon," taking cues from Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights," a perversion of "Singin' in the Rain," and the ironic excess we've typically associated with Martin Scorsese's best. Despite the clear influences, one thing that remains characteristically "Chazelle" is his commitment to making a true spectacle out of his finales.
Is Damien Chazelle's newest film a love letter to cinema or an ode to a dying medium?
Complete with a staggering three hour runtime, "Babylon" is a bonafide epic of debauchery and bodily fluids (that's right!) that is sure to cause some debate when it opens in theaters this weekend. Like Chazelle's previous movies, "Babylon" initially starts with an ensemble cast of dreamers with high ambitions making their way into the industry, but instead of an optimistic Hollywood tale, it quickly nosedives into something darker and unexpected.
There's a little bit of everything in "Babylon," taking cues from Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights," a perversion of "Singin' in the Rain," and the ironic excess we've typically associated with Martin Scorsese's best. Despite the clear influences, one thing that remains characteristically "Chazelle" is his commitment to making a true spectacle out of his finales.
- 12/23/2022
- by Tyler Llewyn Taing
- Slash Film
When it came time to recreate 1920s Los Angeles for Damien Chazelle’s sprawling Hollywood epic “Babylon,” production designer Florencia Martin wanted audiences to really feel the history of the central city.
“Damian and I met over Zoom for the first time actually, because we were in the pandemic, and started immediately sharing images of these depravity-stricken characters mixed in with a barren Los Angeles,” Martin tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview. “It’s unbelievable to look at these images of early Los Angeles and see how it was really a city in formation – which is how Damian wrote and wanted to kick off the film and the story. So we spoke about creating a world that was really visceral, that allowed the audience to step into all these amazing circumstances that our characters find themselves in. So you really wanted to create a world that was like...
“Damian and I met over Zoom for the first time actually, because we were in the pandemic, and started immediately sharing images of these depravity-stricken characters mixed in with a barren Los Angeles,” Martin tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview. “It’s unbelievable to look at these images of early Los Angeles and see how it was really a city in formation – which is how Damian wrote and wanted to kick off the film and the story. So we spoke about creating a world that was really visceral, that allowed the audience to step into all these amazing circumstances that our characters find themselves in. So you really wanted to create a world that was like...
- 12/22/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Before the Hays Code and censors came in—and honestly for long afterwards as well—Hollywood was considered to be a regular Sodom and Gomorrah by the heartland. There, out in the desert, a sinister den of iniquity had supplanted New Orleans as damnation made flesh. That reputation of course faded over the years by dint of time and the glossy sheen of fabulous studio publicists that went on to shape our nostalgia. They turned infamy into respectability. Decadence into a lost golden age.
Which is perhaps why that golden hue looks all the more sickly in Damien Chazelle’s seedy bacchanal of a movie: this Christmas’ Babylon. Named after the biggest film set ever assembled for a notorious box office flop, D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, the new film’s title also doubles as a nod to the Biblical scale on which Chazelle is mounting his fourth feature.
Babylon is...
Which is perhaps why that golden hue looks all the more sickly in Damien Chazelle’s seedy bacchanal of a movie: this Christmas’ Babylon. Named after the biggest film set ever assembled for a notorious box office flop, D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, the new film’s title also doubles as a nod to the Biblical scale on which Chazelle is mounting his fourth feature.
Babylon is...
- 12/22/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
In the late 1920s, silent era filmmaking was at the height of its artistry, and Hollywood was one big, debaucherous party. This was the roaring twenties, after all. In fact, it was the depravity — on screen and off — of this era that led to the creation of the Production Code that would handicap studio films for decades to come.
Although many films have paid tribute to these wild, early days like James Ivory’s “The Wild Party” or Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist,” few have boasted as impressive a grasp the magic and darkness of its history and mythology as Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.” This era is a perfect collision of all the Oscar winner’s interests.
In his three-hour epic “Babylon,” the romantic cinephilia of “La La Land” meets the obsessive jazz rhythms of “Whiplash” meets the detailed history of “First Man.” Inspired in part by the racier (though often...
Although many films have paid tribute to these wild, early days like James Ivory’s “The Wild Party” or Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist,” few have boasted as impressive a grasp the magic and darkness of its history and mythology as Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.” This era is a perfect collision of all the Oscar winner’s interests.
In his three-hour epic “Babylon,” the romantic cinephilia of “La La Land” meets the obsessive jazz rhythms of “Whiplash” meets the detailed history of “First Man.” Inspired in part by the racier (though often...
- 12/21/2022
- by Marya E. Gates
- Indiewire
Plot: At the dawn of the sound era, a tawdry collection of people working in silent films must reckon with their rapidly changing fortunes as the talkies, and a new strict morality, become commonplace.
Review: Within the first ten minutes of Babylon, you get an anus-first view of an elephant having diarrhea and then, shortly after, a golden shower performed by a woman on a very content customer. This is all lovingly shot by director Damien Chazelle and his Dp Linus Sandgren, as if to announce, “hey – if you thought The Wolf of Wall Street was over the top, get a load of this!” As it turns out, the brown and the golden showers are only the beginning of Chazelle’s nightmarish descent into the seemingly depraved world of 1920s Hollywood. As Al Jolson said in The Jazz Singer, the movie that spells doom to many of the characters here,...
Review: Within the first ten minutes of Babylon, you get an anus-first view of an elephant having diarrhea and then, shortly after, a golden shower performed by a woman on a very content customer. This is all lovingly shot by director Damien Chazelle and his Dp Linus Sandgren, as if to announce, “hey – if you thought The Wolf of Wall Street was over the top, get a load of this!” As it turns out, the brown and the golden showers are only the beginning of Chazelle’s nightmarish descent into the seemingly depraved world of 1920s Hollywood. As Al Jolson said in The Jazz Singer, the movie that spells doom to many of the characters here,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Paramount Pictures are letting fans decide if they are naughty or nice in these two new trailer for Babylon.
The A-list cast include Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde.
From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
See Babylon in theaters this Friday, December 23rd.
https://www.babylonmovie.com/
Diego Calva plays Manny Torres and Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad in Babylon from Paramount Pictures.
The A-list cast include Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde.
From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
See Babylon in theaters this Friday, December 23rd.
https://www.babylonmovie.com/
Diego Calva plays Manny Torres and Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad in Babylon from Paramount Pictures.
- 12/19/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Diego Calva is about to get his big Hollywood break as the star of Damien Chazelle’s upcoming epic “Babylon,” but Netflix subscribers might already be familiar with the relative newcomer thanks to his supporting role on “Narcos: Mexico.” Calva starred as the Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva in six episodes of the show’s third season, but it appears he’s not too fond of the series. Speaking to GQ magazine, Calva said he disagrees with how “Narcos: Mexico” represented his country.
“There’s a moment in your career as an actor that you really can’t choose your roles,” Calva said. “You are just grateful that you’re having a job, and ‘Narcos’ is a great show. But in my case, it’s a little hard because the way they put the story of my country, I don’t agree at all. There’s a lot of truth and that’s amazing,...
“There’s a moment in your career as an actor that you really can’t choose your roles,” Calva said. “You are just grateful that you’re having a job, and ‘Narcos’ is a great show. But in my case, it’s a little hard because the way they put the story of my country, I don’t agree at all. There’s a lot of truth and that’s amazing,...
- 11/29/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Fame and success come at a price in “Babylon”.
The trailer for Paramount Picture’s new thriller exploring Hollywood in the 1920s was released on Monday.
Read More: Nsfw ‘Babylon’ Trailer Drops Starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt & Diego Calva
Set in Los Angeles, the film stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva along with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. The movie tells a story of ambition and the pitfalls of success during early Hollywood.
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. – Photo: Paramount Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. – Photo: Paramount Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy and Diego Calva plays Manny Torres in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. – Photo: Paramount
Robbie plays an aspiring actress with a big personality and even bigger ambitions as she sets her eyes on the top.
“We are going to be...
The trailer for Paramount Picture’s new thriller exploring Hollywood in the 1920s was released on Monday.
Read More: Nsfw ‘Babylon’ Trailer Drops Starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt & Diego Calva
Set in Los Angeles, the film stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva along with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. The movie tells a story of ambition and the pitfalls of success during early Hollywood.
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. – Photo: Paramount Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. – Photo: Paramount Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy and Diego Calva plays Manny Torres in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. – Photo: Paramount
Robbie plays an aspiring actress with a big personality and even bigger ambitions as she sets her eyes on the top.
“We are going to be...
- 11/28/2022
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
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Margot Robbie makes a scene as a 1920s Hollywood bombshell actress in the latest trailer for Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, which dropped on Monday.
“We are going to be more than they ever bargained for,” Robbie’s character declares at one point in the trailer to Diego Calva, who plays Manny Torres, a Latino character in Hollywood’s silent era.
Her sparkler-infused partying sits alongside Pitt’s character, a suave leading man, who when asked about his over-riding ambition in life answers that it is “to stand in the way of progress.”
The duo capture clashing perspectives between the “high art” version of Hollywood and the drugged-up debauchery-turned-depression of Robbie and Pitt’s realities, where they “make it on my terms, not theirs,” as Robbie’s character professes.
Written by Chazelle, Babylon portrays the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies...
Margot Robbie makes a scene as a 1920s Hollywood bombshell actress in the latest trailer for Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, which dropped on Monday.
“We are going to be more than they ever bargained for,” Robbie’s character declares at one point in the trailer to Diego Calva, who plays Manny Torres, a Latino character in Hollywood’s silent era.
Her sparkler-infused partying sits alongside Pitt’s character, a suave leading man, who when asked about his over-riding ambition in life answers that it is “to stand in the way of progress.”
The duo capture clashing perspectives between the “high art” version of Hollywood and the drugged-up debauchery-turned-depression of Robbie and Pitt’s realities, where they “make it on my terms, not theirs,” as Robbie’s character professes.
Written by Chazelle, Babylon portrays the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies...
- 11/28/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the more highly anticipated films of 2022 is Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, which features an all-star cast that includes Brad Pitt (Jack Conrad), Margot Robbie (Nellie Laroy), Diego Calva (Manny Torres), Jovan Adepo (Sidney Palmer), Li Jun Li (Lady Fay Zhu), Jean Smart (Elinor St. John), Tobey Maguire (James McKay), and Lukas Haas (George Munn). The upcoming film will explore the glitz of Los Angeles back in what’s considered the golden age of Hollywood: the 1920s. Babylon focuses on the rise and fall of multiple characters, some are fictional, and others are real. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie’s characters
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon Trailer Has Finally Arrived...
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon Trailer Has Finally Arrived...
- 11/20/2022
- by Jeffrey Bowie Jr.
- TVovermind.com
Drug-induced decadence is nothing new in Los Angeles, but director Damien Chazelle sought to capture it in its extreme in Babylon, his exploration of 1920s Hollywood during the advent of the “talkies era.”
The film’s score was created by Chazelle’s frequent calibrator Justin Hurwitz, who during the Paramount Pictures film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event discussed his struggle to create era-appropriate music.
Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage
“One of the big challenges right from the top was figuring out how to draw enough from the era without sounding anything like the era because the last thing we wanted to do was write 1920s jazz,” Hurwitz said on the panel that included star Diego Calva, costume designer Mary Zophres and production designer Florencia Martin. “We’ve heard it. It’s a little quaint, especially for this movie. This is a wild,...
The film’s score was created by Chazelle’s frequent calibrator Justin Hurwitz, who during the Paramount Pictures film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event discussed his struggle to create era-appropriate music.
Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage
“One of the big challenges right from the top was figuring out how to draw enough from the era without sounding anything like the era because the last thing we wanted to do was write 1920s jazz,” Hurwitz said on the panel that included star Diego Calva, costume designer Mary Zophres and production designer Florencia Martin. “We’ve heard it. It’s a little quaint, especially for this movie. This is a wild,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Alex Cramer
- Deadline Film + TV
Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” was just the warm up for “Babylon,” his epic comedy-drama about Hollywood during the seismic shift from silents to talkies in the late 1920s — think “La Dolce Vita” meets “Nashville” by way of “The Wolf of Wall Street.” This allowed the Oscar-winning director to step out of his comfort zone with a wild, orgiastic ride through hedonistic excess and extreme living before the sound revolution transformed the movies into a cultural phenomenon.
Judging from the mixed response to Monday’s Academy screening, however, “Babylon” might have a bumpier Best Picture ride than its singing and dancing predecessor. It should be a major crafts player, though. That means likely nominations for some or all of Chazelle’s collaborators: cinematographer Linus Sandgren (Oscar winner for “La La Land”); production designer Florencia Martin; costume designer Mary Zophres; composer Justin Hurwitz (Oscar winner for “La La Land” score...
Judging from the mixed response to Monday’s Academy screening, however, “Babylon” might have a bumpier Best Picture ride than its singing and dancing predecessor. It should be a major crafts player, though. That means likely nominations for some or all of Chazelle’s collaborators: cinematographer Linus Sandgren (Oscar winner for “La La Land”); production designer Florencia Martin; costume designer Mary Zophres; composer Justin Hurwitz (Oscar winner for “La La Land” score...
- 11/16/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
It starts with elephant feces and ends with a random clip from “Avatar.”
That narrative leap, one lubricated with scatology and film history, sums up the bulky 188-minute “Babylon” after its first initial, somewhat puzzling screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday evening.
Chazelle’s film is the one of the last awards hopefuls to drop this season. It’s the latest project from an Oscar-winning auteur who has seemed to receive carte blanche on his projects, a practice which is likely coming to an end (as it should). As the significant fall festivals like Telluride, Toronto, New York and AFI passed by, speculation arose regarding the quality of “Babylon,” since Chazelle’s previous films – “Whiplash” (2014), “La La Land” (2016) and “First Man” (2018) — had all made stops at multiple fests before opening. So can we assume that Paramount was nervous about it?
Given the divisive reactions to...
That narrative leap, one lubricated with scatology and film history, sums up the bulky 188-minute “Babylon” after its first initial, somewhat puzzling screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday evening.
Chazelle’s film is the one of the last awards hopefuls to drop this season. It’s the latest project from an Oscar-winning auteur who has seemed to receive carte blanche on his projects, a practice which is likely coming to an end (as it should). As the significant fall festivals like Telluride, Toronto, New York and AFI passed by, speculation arose regarding the quality of “Babylon,” since Chazelle’s previous films – “Whiplash” (2014), “La La Land” (2016) and “First Man” (2018) — had all made stops at multiple fests before opening. So can we assume that Paramount was nervous about it?
Given the divisive reactions to...
- 11/15/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Damien Chazelle’s manic vision of a wild, wild west Hollywood heyday, “Babylon,” screened for the very first time November 14 in Los Angeles for Academy members and select press. The collective reaction in a packed, mostly enthusiastic house was, “That was a lot of movie.” Responses on Twitter (social reactions were encouraged while reviews remain under embargo ahead of the film’s wide Christmas Day release) from the press corps ranged from marveling over the film’s druggy over-the-topness to bewilderment over its wildly swinging tones. See them rounded up below.
Indeed, set in a debaucherous mid-1920s when Los Angeles was still a half-formed desert town, “Babylon” is essentially a three-hour-plus bender of a movie that pummels the audience with Boschian-level set pieces of Jazz Era decadence — mountains of cocaine, graphic overdoses, scatological humor, projectile vomiting, horror-movie-style sex dungeons, murder, suicide, and rattlesnake wrestling. Other than breakout Diego Calva,...
Indeed, set in a debaucherous mid-1920s when Los Angeles was still a half-formed desert town, “Babylon” is essentially a three-hour-plus bender of a movie that pummels the audience with Boschian-level set pieces of Jazz Era decadence — mountains of cocaine, graphic overdoses, scatological humor, projectile vomiting, horror-movie-style sex dungeons, murder, suicide, and rattlesnake wrestling. Other than breakout Diego Calva,...
- 11/15/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle screened “Babylon,” his epic love letter to Hollywood, for the first time on Monday (Nov. 14) in advance of its Christmas Day release. His 3-hour plus picture from Paramount chronicles the turbulent transition from the silent era to the talkies.
Chazelle has crafted a story that blends fact with fiction as it follows the journeys of two newcomers to Tinseltown: would-be starlet Nellie Laroy (Margot Robbie) and filmmaker Manny Torres (Diego Calva). The supporting cast is led by Oscar champ Brad Pitt as matinee idol Jack Conrad and Emmy darling Jean Smart as the tart-tongued Elinor St. John.
In the post-screening Q&a, Pitt spoke about collaborating with Chazelle on creating his larger-than-life character, who is in the vein of screen legends Douglas Fairbanks and John Gilbert. Pitt readily conceded that he had been dismissive of their style of acting for being too over-the-top and admitted, “it...
Chazelle has crafted a story that blends fact with fiction as it follows the journeys of two newcomers to Tinseltown: would-be starlet Nellie Laroy (Margot Robbie) and filmmaker Manny Torres (Diego Calva). The supporting cast is led by Oscar champ Brad Pitt as matinee idol Jack Conrad and Emmy darling Jean Smart as the tart-tongued Elinor St. John.
In the post-screening Q&a, Pitt spoke about collaborating with Chazelle on creating his larger-than-life character, who is in the vein of screen legends Douglas Fairbanks and John Gilbert. Pitt readily conceded that he had been dismissive of their style of acting for being too over-the-top and admitted, “it...
- 11/15/2022
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Six years after winning an Oscar for “La La Land,” writer-director Damien Chazelle is gearing up for a return to Tinseltown with his next feature film “Babylon.” This time, he’s taking it back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, when silent films transitioned to talkies.
In a recent interview, Chazelle said he first came up with the idea for “a big, epic, multicharacter movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as,” about 15 years ago. It was only after completing 2018’s “First Man” that he got to work on the script for the “massive” movie.
Like any Hollywood movie about Hollywood, the cast of “Babylon” is as star-studded as they come, playing a mixture of fictional and historical characters. Among them: Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt; Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Tobey Maguire,...
In a recent interview, Chazelle said he first came up with the idea for “a big, epic, multicharacter movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as,” about 15 years ago. It was only after completing 2018’s “First Man” that he got to work on the script for the “massive” movie.
Like any Hollywood movie about Hollywood, the cast of “Babylon” is as star-studded as they come, playing a mixture of fictional and historical characters. Among them: Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt; Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Tobey Maguire,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
“I always wanted to be a part of something bigger,” Diego Calva’s Manny Torres tells Margot Robbie’s Nellie Laroy over lines of cocaine, opening the first red-band (i.e. Nsfw) trailer for “Babylon.”
“I Love that answer,” Nellie shouts.
It makes sense, then, that Damien Chazelle’s latest feature film boasts the logline, “Always make a scene.” It’s clear that these characters are ready to make theirs.
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Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie Revel in Debauched 1920s Hollywood in First Look at Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’
Per a release from Paramount: “From Damien Chazelle, ‘Babylon’ is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an...
“I Love that answer,” Nellie shouts.
It makes sense, then, that Damien Chazelle’s latest feature film boasts the logline, “Always make a scene.” It’s clear that these characters are ready to make theirs.
Also Read:
Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie Revel in Debauched 1920s Hollywood in First Look at Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’
Per a release from Paramount: “From Damien Chazelle, ‘Babylon’ is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an...
- 9/13/2022
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
One day after Damien Chazelle teased his forthcoming Hollywood-set epic “Babylon” at a special event during the Toronto International Film Festival, Paramount released the frenetic first trailer for the presumed Oscar contender.
“It’s written in the stars, I am a star,” says Nellie Laroy (Margot Robbie) during a cocaine-fueled conversation with a fellow striver named Manny Torres (newcomer Diego Calva) at the start of the “Babylon” trailer. What follows are images of excess – sex, drugs, parties, shocking violence – during the nascent days of Hollywood. Brad Pitt, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, and Jovan Adepo lead the film’s all-star cast, with each playing characters inspired by real-life Hollywood figures.
“It was really a wild West period for these people, this gallery of characters, as they rise and fall, rise, fall, rise again, fall again,” Chazelle told Vanity Fair. “The thing that they’re building is springing back on them and chewing them up.
“It’s written in the stars, I am a star,” says Nellie Laroy (Margot Robbie) during a cocaine-fueled conversation with a fellow striver named Manny Torres (newcomer Diego Calva) at the start of the “Babylon” trailer. What follows are images of excess – sex, drugs, parties, shocking violence – during the nascent days of Hollywood. Brad Pitt, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, and Jovan Adepo lead the film’s all-star cast, with each playing characters inspired by real-life Hollywood figures.
“It was really a wild West period for these people, this gallery of characters, as they rise and fall, rise, fall, rise again, fall again,” Chazelle told Vanity Fair. “The thing that they’re building is springing back on them and chewing them up.
- 9/13/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Alligators, snakes, and a coked-out Margot Robbie: The “Babylon” trailer, which screened for audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival, is about to break the internet. The TIFF audience ate up the trailer — so much so, that Bailey showed it a second time.
In it, you see Robbie in a red dress and wild hair hysterically unraveling amid tableaux of Jazz Age bacchanalia. There’s also a drunken Brad Pitt tap-dancing in his underwear. The sizzle is a propulsive series of images that come at you hard and fast, but one standout is breakout actor Diego Calva, who plays a character called Manny Torres, appears to be the lead.
In a conversation with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, director Damien Chazelle said that the super-sized Hollywood epic, set circa 1920s Los Angeles as silent films transitioned to talkies, isn’t finished. He’s in post, readying for a December 25 Paramount release.
In it, you see Robbie in a red dress and wild hair hysterically unraveling amid tableaux of Jazz Age bacchanalia. There’s also a drunken Brad Pitt tap-dancing in his underwear. The sizzle is a propulsive series of images that come at you hard and fast, but one standout is breakout actor Diego Calva, who plays a character called Manny Torres, appears to be the lead.
In a conversation with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, director Damien Chazelle said that the super-sized Hollywood epic, set circa 1920s Los Angeles as silent films transitioned to talkies, isn’t finished. He’s in post, readying for a December 25 Paramount release.
- 9/12/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Paramount has debuted a set of first-look images from Damien Chazelle’s upcoming feature ‘Babylon.’
The movie is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy
Also in news – Jodie Comer stars in first look image from ‘The End We Start From’
The film stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde.
The film is set for UK cinemas in January 2023.
Tobey Maguire plays James McKay Li Jun Li plays Lady Fay Zhu Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy Jovan Adepo plays...
The movie is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy
Also in news – Jodie Comer stars in first look image from ‘The End We Start From’
The film stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde.
The film is set for UK cinemas in January 2023.
Tobey Maguire plays James McKay Li Jun Li plays Lady Fay Zhu Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy Jovan Adepo plays...
- 9/12/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad in Babylon from Paramount Pictures.
Here’s your first look at the u[coming movie Babylon.
From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures.
The cast features Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde
Babylon opens in select theatres December 25, everywhere...
Here’s your first look at the u[coming movie Babylon.
From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures.
The cast features Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde
Babylon opens in select theatres December 25, everywhere...
- 9/9/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in ‘Babylon’ from Paramount Pictures.
Paramount has released the first batch of photos from Babylon, writer/director Damien Chazelle’s star-studded epic tale of Hollywood in the 1920s. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead the cast, reuniting after starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, a fairy tale take on the Manson family murder of Sharon Tate.
Babylon‘s cast also includes Tobey Maguire, Jean Smart, Lukas Haas, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo, and Diego Calva. P.J. Byrne, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, and Olivia Wilde also star in what’s sure to be a 2023 Oscar contender.
Filmmaker Chazelle spoke to Vanity Fair about directing Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. “Part of what was magical about working with them in these roles is that each of them felt like...
Paramount has released the first batch of photos from Babylon, writer/director Damien Chazelle’s star-studded epic tale of Hollywood in the 1920s. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead the cast, reuniting after starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, a fairy tale take on the Manson family murder of Sharon Tate.
Babylon‘s cast also includes Tobey Maguire, Jean Smart, Lukas Haas, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo, and Diego Calva. P.J. Byrne, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, and Olivia Wilde also star in what’s sure to be a 2023 Oscar contender.
Filmmaker Chazelle spoke to Vanity Fair about directing Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. “Part of what was magical about working with them in these roles is that each of them felt like...
- 9/8/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Six years after winning an Oscar for "La La Land," Damien Chazelle is returning with yet another ode to the Cty of Angels. According to an exclusive chat with Vanity Fair, this particular project has been a long time coming — Chazelle has been working on the story for his upcoming feature film "Babylon" since he first moved to Los Angeles 15 years ago. When the idea first dawned on him, the plan was "just to do a big, epic, multi-character movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as." After years of chipping away at the story, the character and dynamics finally emerged, and later this year, we'll see for ourselves what it all became.
For obvious reasons, it sounds like "Babylon" might share a lot in common with the very successful "La La Land.
For obvious reasons, it sounds like "Babylon" might share a lot in common with the very successful "La La Land.
- 9/7/2022
- by Shania Russell
- Slash Film
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