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Released
2022 · FILM

Babylon

A Mexican immigrant in 1926 Hollywood navigates the wild, drug-fueled world of silent film to pursue his dreams—and the heart of a rising star—amidst the decadence and danger of Tinseltown's golden age.

“Always make a scene.”

Directed by
Damien Chazelle, Bob Clendenin
Written by
Damien Chazelle, Jim Magdaleno
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
189 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A story of grand ambition and extreme excess, it follows the rise and fall of several characters during an era marked by unrestrained decadence and depravity in Hollywood.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 961+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom CrossShot by Linus SandgrenScored by Justin HurwitzDesigned by Florencia MartinSound by Carson HigginsCostumes by Mary ZophresStunts by Doug ColemanVFX by Keith Anthony Brown

Box Office

2022 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$65.3M

Budget$78.0M
Worldwide gross$65.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.7M — 24% of worldwide · International: $49.6M (76%)

Opening weekend: $3.6M — 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.4M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,343 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Babylon – Rausch der Ekstasede
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesDec 15, 2022
  • CanadaDec 23, 2022
  • SlovakiaJan 5, 2023
  • FranceJan 14, 2023

Companies

ProductionParamount Pictures, C2 Motion Picture Group, Marc Platt Productions

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