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

Margot Robbie‘s newest movie bombed at the field workplace, marking the second such flop she’s been on this 12 months … each of which have been big ensemble numbers with prime 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 Sunday, with an estimated $5.3 mil anticipated to return in by Monday. Either method … it is not a great turnout in any way.

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

Plus, there’s the director — Damien Chazelle — who’s an Oscar winner … and with a considerably hefty funds of $80 million (and loads of advertising and marketing) it is unclear why this one did not do effectively with moviegoers this vacation season. The blended opinions most likely did not assist.

Interestingly, there’s one other film Margot was part of earlier this fall that had very comparable vibes — one other star-studded lineup (Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Rami Malek, Taylor Swift, and so forth.) 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 total — this after one more $80 mil funds spent to make it.

Bit of a troublesome 12 months for Margot on the movie entrance — not solely have been issues meh at the field workplace … however she additionally stated the ‘Pirates’ film she was connected to had been killed by Disney — although certainly one of the producers for the franchise insisted that is not fairly the case.

She’s bought so much 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.