Damien Chazelle’s Upcoming ‘Babylon’ Moves Up Countrywide Release to Christmas

Damien Chazelle’s upcoming Babylon will currently open wherever Dec. 23, Paramount declared Tuesday.

The film — with a star-packed cast that incorporates Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt — was previously set to open in select theaters Dec as it were. 25 preceding growing cross country on Jan. 6.

Paramount’s decision came a day after Sony deferred A Man Called Otto from Christmas to January 2023. Babylon desires to act as counterprogramming to Avatar: The Way of Water, which opens wide Dec. 16. Other Christmas wide offerings incorporate the animated family film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which makes it to movie theaters Dec. 21 close by Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

Set in late 1920s Hollywood during the film industry’s change from silent movies to talkies, Babylon investigates the ascent and fall of various characters and has been depicted as “The Great Gatsby on steroids.”

The cast additionally incorporates Jovan Adepo, Diego Calva, Flea, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde and Samara Weaving.

“Babylon is the biggest number of roles I have juggled by far. The casting process took a long, long time. It’s a mostly fictional film where almost all of the characters are inspired by composites of real-life people,” Chazelle said last month at the Toronto Film Festival.

The Christmas box office has historically supported different titles, in any event, when a mega-tentpole is on the marquee, like Avatar 2.

Babylon has awards desires and desires to partake in a box office bump from nominations. It is not yet clear whether Pitt curtails publicity, whether for the actual film or the awards campaign, in view of new claims about a domestic incident that occurred on a plane in 2016 when he was traveling with then-spouse Angelina Jolie and their children.