Margot Robbie’s Latest Movie, ‘Babylon,’ Bombs At the Box Office

Margot Robbie‘s newest movie bombed on the field workplace, marking the second such flop she’s been on this yr … each of which had been large ensemble numbers with high A-list expertise.

Of course, we’re speaking about ‘Babylon’ — which hit theaters this vacation weekend … and solely raked in a meager $3.5 million domestically by way of Sunday, with an estimated $5.3 mil anticipated to return in by way of Monday. Either means … it is not an excellent turnout in any respect.

The film — which is about previous Hollywood and the emergence of “talkies” — had huge star energy hooked up to the credit … along with Margot because the lead, it additionally featured Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Chloe Fineman, Eric Roberts, Flea, Max Minghella, and many others.

Plus, there’s the director — Damien Chazelle — who’s an Oscar winner … and with a considerably hefty funds of $80 million (and a whole lot of advertising and marketing) it is unclear why this one did not do effectively with moviegoers this vacation season. The combined evaluations in all probability did not assist.

Interestingly, there’s one other film Margot was part of earlier this fall that had very related vibes — one other star-studded lineup (Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Rami Malek, Taylor Swift, and many others.) that got here collectively for ‘Amsterdam’ … which additionally flamed out in theaters.

It solely made about $6.4M throughout its opening weekend in Oct., and went on to gather simply $16M or so domestically general — this after yet one more $80 mil funds spent to make it.

Bit of a tricky yr for Margot on the movie entrance — not solely had been issues meh on the field workplace … however she additionally stated the ‘Pirates’ film she was hooked up to had been killed by Disney — despite the fact that one of many producers for the franchise insisted that is not fairly the case.

She’s obtained rather a lot on the horizon for 2023, although — MR’s already set to star in ‘Barbie’, in addition to a Wes Anderson flick, ‘Asteroid City,’ … to not point out her personal ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ prequel. The solely (potential) drawback … all of these can have tremendous stacked casts too.