The Barbie movie is breaking one record after another right now. But leading actress Margot Robbie also starred in a gigantic box-office flop this year that lost $87 million.
With Barbie, Margot Robbie has finally proven that she is one of the biggest Hollywood stars of our time. After one week, the toy adaptation has broken a considerable number of records and grossed over 500 million US dollars. There is no end in sight to the success. Barbie could become a billionaire.
At the beginning of the year, Robbie nevertheless had to take a beating. The three-hour Hollywood epic Babylon suffered a shipwreck at the box office. Now you can stream the film on subscription at Paramount+. Don’t let the flop put you off: Babylon is an incredibly stirring 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 on its toes. People party until the early hours of the morning before the stars drag themselves hungover to the set to shoot the next film. Young Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) also dreams of one day being in front of the camera.
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Before she knows it, she lands on a film set and matures into a scene stealer. The audience is thrilled and Nellie becomes a star. However, her fame is not to last too long. The era of silent films is drawing to a close and the so-called talkies take over the cinema. A cinema in which Nellie no longer has a place.
Just as rapidly as the talkies change Hollywood thinking, Babylon is set in scene. Forgotten are the dreamy images with which Damien Chazelle bowed to film history in La La Land. With Babylon, he has created an uncompromising, intoxicating screen experience that leaves no time to catch one’s breath.
