Netflix Removes 'Babylon' After $87 Million Loss: Why the Film Failed
As of June 7, Damien Chazelle's 2022 film Babylon , starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie , will no longer be available on Netflix. Its removal comes just six months after Netflix added Babylon to its library in December 2025. Babylon was a three-hour epic star-studded spectacle about the rises and falls of silent-era movie stars as Hollywood transitioned to talkies in the 1920s. Indirectly, it was riding the success of other projects. Chazelle had a massive hit six years earlier with La La Land , which won him an Oscar for best director — though famously, not for best picture . Then, there was the combined star power of Pitt and Robbie, who both starred in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood in 2019 — another fictionalized account of old Hollywood, albeit a few decades later in the '60s. By all means, Babylon should have been a success. Instead, it flopped — massively . It was a major failure at the box office , earning less than $65 million against its $80...
