Last month, Margot Robbie let it slip that her planned female-led “Pirates Of The Caribbean” movie is dead in the water. But according to Jerry Bruckheimer, the man behind the profitable Disney franchise, that may not be the case.
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One of the most anticipated presumed Oscar contenders, and one of the very few remaining to debut before year-end, dropped last night with the first screening of Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Paramount’s big Christmas release, and hopeful awards magnet chose the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre for the unveiling in front of entertainment pundits, industry members, and most importantly guild and Oscar voters, a perfect venue with both sides of the massive screen bookended by those imposing large Oscar statues. In addition to the screening there was a post Q&A with Chazelle and stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, and Tobey Maguire followed by a dessert reception in the lobby.
Reviews of the December 23rd wide release are embargoed for at least a month (Paramount has not chosen the exact date yet but expect mid-December at the earliest), but the studio was encouraging social media reaction – and got it with some mixed twitter response and instant analysis from awards pundits, but from my own unscientific survey among actual Oscar voters I talked to (and there were quite a few ready to offer up their opinions) , it was largely an enthusiastic reception for the movie that takes some very big swings. Expect it to run the whole gamut of opinions as it goes forward this season.
The three hour and eight minute film follows the stories of several characters at the top and on the fringe of Hollywood circa 1926, beginning with the end of the silent era and just as talkies became all the rage with the debut of Al Jolson’s all-talking The Jazz Singer the next year. Pitt is a John Gilbert-like major silent star navigating a
Last month, Margot Robbie let it slip that her planned female-led “Pirates Of The Caribbean” movie is dead in the water. But according to Jerry Bruckheimer, the man behind the profitable Disney franchise, that may not be the case.
UPDATED, 12:02 p.m.: Paramount has unveiled a new trailer for Babylon — the latest awards contender from filmmaker Damien Chazelle, which opens wide on December 23rd.
Coming into awards season, many people were buzzing about Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.” And why wouldn’t they? The filmmaker’s previous films were all awards darlings. But when the first social media reactions were released, it was clear that “Babylon” isn’t as universally beloved as Chazelle’s previous efforts.
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. Paired with her glowing skin, a rosy lip, brushed-up brows, and fluttering lashes, it made for an elegant beauty look. Robbie's look has a long history behind it. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel had a penchant for wearing black bows and regularly included them in her collections.
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Hardly any other movie of the past decade is as big, bawdy, and debaucherous as Martin Scorsese‘s “The Wolf Of Wall Street.” And Margot Robbie would know. Scorsese’s bananas banking biopic was the Australian actress’ stateside breakout.
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.”
Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle’s audacious new film “Babylon” is out in the world. Or rather, the highly-anticipated movie, the last major Oscar contender of the year (Unless “Avatar 2” surprises), has been seen by critics in New York and LA, and the responses to the wild film have been dividing.
“Babylon,” the new film by Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle (“La La Land,” “First Man”), premiered Wednesday night in New York. As you’ve probably heard already, the film—a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of rampant depravity in early Hollywood— has been met with polarizing responses.
Typically, when we see social media reactions to major film releases, especially blockbusters, the results tend to be very, uh, generous. That’s when you get people really go for hyperbolic statements claiming “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” will melt your face and make you pray to the altar of Sam Raimi.