With Barbie, Margot Robbie has finally proven that she is one of the biggest Hollywood stars of our time. After a week, the toy adaptation has broken a significant number of records and Grossed over $500 million. There is no end to the success in sight. Barbie could become a billionaire.
At the beginning of the year Robbie still suffered a defeat. The three-hour Hollywood epic Babylon suffered Shipwreck at the box office. Now you can stream the film on Paramount+ by subscription. Don’t be put off by the flop: Babylon is an incredibly rousing declaration of love for cinema.
Babylon: Before Barbie, Margot Robbie conquered the Hollywood of a bygone era
Hollywood in the 1920s: wild parties with lots of sex and drugs keep the dream factory busy. The party goes on until the early hours of the morning before the stars meet dragged hung over to the setto shoot the next movie. Young Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) also dreams of one day being in front of the camera.
You can watch the trailer for Babylon here:
Babylon – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Before she knows it, she ends up on a movie set and becomes a scene thief. The audience is enthusiastic and Nellie becomes a star. However, her fame will not last too long. The era of the silent film is coming to an end and the so-called talkies take over the cinema. A cinema in which Nellie no longer has a place.
Babylon is staged just as rapidly as the sound film is changing thinking in Hollywood. Forgotten are the dreamy images with which Damien Chazelle bowed to film history in La La Land. With Babylon he has one uncompromising, intoxicating screen experience created that leaves no time to breathe.
Despite Barbie star Margot Robbie: Babylon is one of the biggest flops in recent years
Paramount invested $80 million in the production of Babylon, not to mention additional marketing costs. However, the film only grossed $63 million worldwide. As Deadline reported in April, the studio should end $87 million loss have made.
That didn’t hurt Margot Robbie’s career. Unlike Nellie LaRoy, who she embodied, her star in Hollywood is not yet on the wane. Her next blockbuster is already taking shape: Along with her Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling, she is in the new Ocean’s movie to see, which takes place in the 1960s.
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