Damien Chazelle: Last News

Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, in its tale of how the talkies rocked the silent motion picture era, is no doubt, a metaphor for the streaming revolution which is impacting the film industry today.

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With 14 nominations, five of them for actors, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once racked up the highest total among films in contention for the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards for Film. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans was next, also grabbing five noms for its cast out of 11 overall to score the including three for Spielberg as producer, director and co-writer of his autobiographical story.

Ahead of the opening of Damien Chazelle’s $80M early Hollywood opus Babylon, the Brian Robbins-run Paramount Pictures studio is doubling down on the filmmaker and his producer wife Olivia Hamilton with a multi-year, first look directing and producing deal with their Wild Chickens Productions.

Sundance has announced its 2023 lineup of episodic projects and 64 shorts, the latter culled from the fest’s highest number of submissions at 10,981.

Margot Robbie knows how to make things happen.

Not throwing away her shot. Margot Robbie admitted that she suggested that her and Brad Pitt‘s Babylon characters needed to kiss because she wanted a chance to smooch the Oscar winner.

Margot Robbie confessed to being responsible for a show-stopping kiss with her costar Brad Pitt in their upcoming Oscar-hopeful film Babylon.The 32-year-old actress, who plays an unhinged starlet taking advantage of every debauched opportunity in 1920s-era Hollywood, revealed to E! News that the kiss wasn't part of the original screenplay by director Damien Chazelle.Instead, the Wolf Of Wall Street star proposed the kiss with Pitt, 58, as a chance to check off a major bucket list desire.  Passionate addition: Margot Robbie, 32, revealed to E! News that she talked Babylon writer–director Damien Chazelle into writing a kiss for her with Brad Pitt, even though it wasn't scripted'That wasn't in the script,' Margot explained, 'but I thought, "When else am I gonna get the chance to kiss Brad Pitt? I'm just gonna go for it."'Asked for her reaction to the kiss, she let out a laugh and said, 'It was great!'  The blond beauty explained how she sold Chazelle, who won the Best Director Academy Award for his hit Hollywood musical La La Land, on adding in a kiss between her and Brad.'I said, "Damien, I think Nellie would just go up and kiss Jack,"' she continued. 'And Damien was like, "Well, she could — wait, hold on.

UPDATED, 12:02 p.m.: Paramount has unveiled a new trailer for Babylon — the latest awards contender from filmmaker Damien Chazelle, which opens wide on December 23rd.

Margot Robbie looked gorgeous as she joined director Damien Chazelle at a photo call for their new movie Babylon at the Burlington Arcade in London on Monday. The actress, 32, donned a chic pale yellow suit for the event and posed up a storm ahead of special screening at Cineworld Leicester Square.Margot, who plays Nellie LaRoy in the period movie, paired her oversized blazer with cropped trousers and layered the look over a simple white vest.  Sensational: Margot Robbie, 32, looked gorgeous as she joined director Damien Chazelle, 37 at a screening of their new movie Babylon in London on MondayThe statuesque stunner added extra height to her frame with a pair of stylish brown snakeskin platforms.  The Wold of Wall street actress accentuated her features with a radiant make-up palette and let her blonde tresses cascade to her shoulders.Meanwhile Damien, 37, looked smart in a grey cardigan which he teamed with plaid trousers and wore over a crisp white shirt.  Sensational: The actress donned a chic pale yellow suit for the event and posed up a storm on the red carpet at Cineworld Leicester Square Stylish: Margot, who plays Nellie LaRoy in the period movie, paired her oversized blazer with cropped trousers and layered the look over a simple white vest Share Follow If you make a purchase using links on this page, MailOnline will earn an affiliate commission Get suited like Margot in Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta Resort 2023 trouser suit Explore the brand Buy now Margot Robbie was suited and booted for the Babylon photocall in London. The actress opted for a sleek two-piece by Bottega Veneta, elevated by the brand’s ‘Mostra’ pumps.

Drug-induced decadence is nothing new in Los Angeles, but director Damien Chazelle sought to capture it in its extreme in Babylon, his exploration of 1920s Hollywood during the advent of the “talkies era.”

Writing and directing a short is a potential passageway to creating a full-length feature film.

One of the most anticipated presumed Oscar contenders, and one of the very few remaining to debut before year-end, dropped last night with the first screening of Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Paramount’s big Christmas release, and hopeful awards magnet chose the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre for the unveiling in front of entertainment pundits, industry members, and most importantly guild and Oscar voters, a perfect venue with both sides of the massive screen bookended by those imposing large Oscar statues. In addition to the screening there was a post Q&A with Chazelle and stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, and Tobey Maguire followed by a dessert reception in the lobby.

Disney’s Margot Robbie-led Pirates of the Caribbean spinoff has been killed by the studio, per the Oscar-nominated actress.

EXCLUSIVE: The ensemble for Greg Berlanti’s mysterious Apple Original Project Artemis has continued to expand, with the addition of up-and-comer Donald Elise Watkins (Emergency). The anticipated film scripted by Rose Gilroy will have Watkins star alongside the previously announced quintet of Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Ray Romano and Anna Garcia.

Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle, 37, shared some happy news over the weekend.On Saturday his wife of four years Olivia Hamilton showed off her baby bump when at the 11th Annual LACMA Art + Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.The 35-year-old blonde beauty cradled her large bump while in a slinky gold gown as she smiled for the camera.The director is next working with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in the December movie Babylon.  Baby number two: Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle, 37, shared some happy news over the weekend. On Saturday his wife of four years Olivia Hamilton showed off her baby bump when at the 11th Annual LACMA Art + Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum DailyMail.com has reached out to his rep for comment.The couple got engaged in October 2017 at Point Dume in California. They tied the knot just under a year later in Malibu, California.

Babylon, the epic period comedy-drama from Oscar-winning writer-director Damien Chazelle, is living up to its epic description, by clocking in at three hours and eight minutes.Set in the 1920s, during Hollywood's transition from silent films to talkies, the film is 'a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, as it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during the early Hollywood era,' according to Variety.With a star-studded cast led by Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva, Chazelle has called the production 'definitely the hardest thing I've done' in terms of 'the logistics, number of characters' and 'the scale of the set pieces', on top of the span of time chronicled in the story. Epic production and length: Babylon, the epic period comedy-drama from Oscar-winning writer-director Damien Chazelle, starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva, is clocking in at three hours and eight minutes long Much anticipated: Set in the 1920s, during Hollywood's transition from silent films to talkies, the film is 'a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, as it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during the early Hollywood era'; Pitt and Calva are pictured in a sceneWhile Chazelle, 37, called this particular filmmaking 'particularly challenging', he did go on add that 'it was a challenge that was pretty exciting to take on.'After having seen the start date pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic,  filming finally kicked off on July 1, 2021 and went on for nearly four months, wrapping on October 21.

He spoke in a raspy monotone that was at once commanding, yet menacing. Howard Strickling officially was the public relations boss of MGM during its heyday, but his real responsibility, he would explain, was protection more than publicity.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood epic “Babylon” will open in theaters across the country on Dec. 23. Paramount initially planned to debut the movie in select theaters on Dec. 25 before expanding it nationwide on Jan. 6. Sources close to “Babylon” suggest the earlier release date points to the studio’s confidence in the film, which carries a $78 million production budget. The news comes the day after Sony amended release plans for “A Man Called Otto,” starring Tom Hanks, which was supposed to debut nationwide on Dec. 14 and will now open in select theaters on Dec. 25 before expanding nationwide on Jan. 13.

The Margot Robbie-Brad Pitt Hollywood yesteryear ensemble is no longer going limited on Christmas, rather wide on Dec. 23 as Sony’s A Man Called Otto switches to a New York-LA engagement on Christmas and a wide break on Jan. 13. Babylon was going to go wide on Jan. 6.

Ella Kemp Guest Contributor Janelle Monáe reflected on her multifaceted career at a Screen Talk hosted by BFI London Film Festival programmer Grace Barber-Plentie. The conversation, which took place ahead of the European premiere of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” included the musician-actor citing Johnny Depp’s career as one she’d like to emulate given the “transformative” characters he has played. Monáe stressed that it was only Depp’s acting career that she admired, and not Depp as a person. “When I think about careers, this person’s life as an actor, only… Johnny Depp has a very badass career,” Monae said, citing Willy Wonka and Sweeney Todd as “dramatic roles” she aspires to play in her own work. “Whatever the Janelle Monáe version of them is, maybe it’s something even better, I want to be able to do those transformative characters that people are dressing up as for Halloween.”