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As they say in Hollywood quite often, “Who knew?” Take the 2022 film Babylon. It had Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt starring, and Oscar-winning La La Land writer/director Damien Chazelle handling that end. Then it went out and did just $15 million domestically against an $80 million budget. Reviews…

Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studios' respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that brink, the studios have…

Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz has found himself back in the awards race this season, having garnered both a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination for his lavish Babylon score. Creating music that complemented the decadence and destructive glamor of 1920s Hollywood found in Damien Chazelle’s Baby…

For filmmaker Damien Chazelle, one of the most compelling aspects of Justin Hurwitz’s score to Babylon is the way it plays with “all colors of the spectrum,” seamlessly synthesizing a lifetime of musical influences on the part of the composer. “I hear the guy who was writing rock songs…and sort of…

The 3x Oscar-nominated Damien Chazelle-directed early Hollywood epic Babylon will hit Paramount+ on Feb. 21 in U.S and Canada, which is 61 days after its theatrical window. The Paramount/C2 movie which stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva and Lukas Haas will also debut in U.K., Australia…

For both Margot Robbie and costume designer Mary Zophres, Paramount Pictures’ Babylon was one of the most difficult and rewarding projects yet. “After week one…I said, ‘This is the hardest I’ve ever worked,’ and I only know hard work,” says Robbie. “That’s like what I’m addicted to, is hard work, and…

The curtain is being raised Thursday night on what looks to be an idiosyncratic festival awards season, as organizers of the Palm Springs Gala to kick off the Palm Springs Film Festival with a hope that audiences somewhere, somehow, will start talking about…

EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle will be recognized with the Advanced Imaging Society’s Gene Kelly Visionary Award at the 13th annual Lumiere Awards, taking place at The Beverly Hills Hotel on February 10.  AIS’ honor will be bestowed upon the Babylon filmmaker by Kelly’s widow and biographer, Patricia…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE: .20th Century Studios/Lightstorm/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water came out of New Year’s weekend on a roll scoring the best January Monday ever with $21.1M, ahead of American Sniper‘s Jan. 19 day back in 2015 of $17.9M. The 4-day run was $88M for the James Cameron directed sequel, -8%…

After earning the highest grossing Tuesday of 2022 with $24.1M, 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm’s Avatar: The Way of Water also notched the best Wednesday of the year yesterday with $20.4M beating Top Gun: Maverick‘s June 1 take of $14.8M, and Avatar 2‘s first Wednesday of $14.4M. At a running…

Any cynicism about a broken down Christmas box office, impacted by weather, was wiped away Tuesday as 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm’s Avatar: The Way of Water racked up $23.8M sending its domestic cume to $317.1M. In addition, the sequel flew past the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office…

TUESDAY AM: Final 4-day holiday numbers 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water came in with $95.5M in its second 4-day weekend. Global is nearing $1 billion. Nancy will have more on that soon. That 4-day weekend is just under that of Rogue One‘s 4-day second weekend of $96.1M, the…