Damien Chazelle’s latest film Babylon is all set for a successful release following its limited and wide release date announcement, know the budget
The 37-year-old American filmmaker feature his directorial debut with Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench released in 2009.
Babylon Movie Limited And Wide Release Date, Cast Member List, Plot Story And Budget
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BabylonRelease Date:
December 25, 2022 (Select Theaters)
January 6, 2023 (Everywhere)
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First trailer for Babylon starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie – UK release date 6th January 2023 #babylon
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Movie fans more popularly know Chazelle for his second movie Whiplash in 2014 which grabbed the attention of major audiences.
Following which he directed the highly ambitious musical La La Land in 2016 and the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man in 2018.
Now most recently, a trailer for his upcoming movie Babylon was recently unveiled receiving a lot of positive hype. According to California Film Commission, Paramount Pictures’ Pitt starring period drama ‘Babylon’ has been made on a budget of $109 million.
Babylon Limited and Wide Release Date Explained
Babylon will have a limited theatrical release date on Sunday, December 25th and a wide release on Friday, January 6th 2023.
The tickets for the release are yet to go on sale but audiences can hopefully squeeze in a viewing in select cinemas before this year concludes. The movie will probably make its way onto many “best of 2022” movie lists.
However, the first release release will be limited and won’t have as many showings as when it opens wide. The first limited release is exclusively in theaters and as of now, there has been no information regarding a streaming release date.
Babylon Cast Member List
The recently unveiled movie trailer showed a star-studded cast list. Given below is a list of the central cast members alongside their respective roles:
- Brad Pitt as Jack Conrad
- Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy
- Diego Calva as Manny Torre
- Jovan Adepo as Sidney Palmer
- Li Jun Li as Lady Fay Zhu
- Jean Smart as Elinor St. John
- Lukas Haas as George Munn
- Tobey Maguire as James McKay
- Max Minghella as Irving Thalberg
Besides those in the list, stars like PJ Byrne, Flea, Spike Jonze, Samara Weaving, are also expected to feature.
A “Multicharacter” movie
Babylon features in at just over three hours and takes place in the 1920s. A time when Hollywood was transitioning from silent cinema into sound, introducing the era of the talkies.
Damien Chazelle recently spoke to Vanity Fair about the movie , explaining that
the basic idea was just to do a big, epic, Multicharacter movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as.
He further revealed that he:
kept putting it off, because it was just a little too massive and he’s had the idea in his head for over a decade now. However, he finally got to work on it after First Man
Chazelle also shared some of his insight into the time he depicts in the movie, adding that:
Everything is shifting underneath people’s feet and I became really fascinated by the human cost of disruption at that magnitude, at a time when there was no road map, when everything was just new and wild.
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