Several films have failed in a big way throughout 2022 -very recently we still have the case of ‘Strange world’-, but there was still one more to go before welcoming 2023, a year full of the most appetizing titles. The victim on this occasion has been ‘Babylon’since the new work of Damien Chazelle It has been starred at the US box office.
Everything points to that ‘Babylon’ has debuted in North American theaters with a pyrrhic 3.34 million dollars during its first weekend, a figure that is expected to increase to 5 million with the income on Monday. A very low figure for a film that it cost 80 million of dollars, especially if we take into account that just a few days ago it was expected to amass 18 million during its first days in theaters in the United States.
There are several reasons that explain this collapse.from the strong division that it has provoked in critics -most journalists love it or hate it with a passion-, the cold wave that devastates the United States -which has not prevented ‘Avatar 2’ is going to go to 55 million this weekend and everything points to 82 if we include Monday-, its bulky duration of more than 3 hours or the fact that the public has simply not liked it, since it has received a fairly general evaluation lazy on the part of those who have gone to see it. Its amazing cast headed by Margot Robbie.
There is always the possibility that the new job of the director of ‘Whiplash’ y ‘The City of Stars (La La Land)’ manage to regain ground at the international box office and also receive a boost if it is nominated for an Oscar, something that until now was almost taken for granted, but most likely it ends up losing a lot of money. Y it would be Chazelle’s second straight flopwell ‘First Man’ it also played at the box office.
