{"id":623861,"date":"2023-02-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=623861"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:26:02","slug":"beach-blanket-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/beach-blanket-babylon","title":{"rendered":"Beach Blanket &#8216;Babylon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two flapper girls on Colony Beach, circa 1929. Contributed photo.Robbie, Bow, Brad, Balzary: Five Malibu Connections to Damien Chazelle&#8217;s film on Old HollywoodDuring this fractured, tech-turbulent 21st century, when motion pictures are caught in a tug of war between faintly flickering theaters and ever-strengthening streaming, &#8220;Babylon&#8221; looks back almost 100 years to a similar fracture: The late 1920s, when America was roaring and the movies were silent but the &#8220;talkies&#8221; were the usurper shaking up Hollywood. Sound technology forced established silent stars, execs, producers, and technicians to adapt or take the bus back to Kansas.Caught up in the push-me\/pull-you of this digital century, Malibu resident Damien Chazelle&#8217;s $78 million, 189-minute (!) &#8220;Babylon&#8221; went all in on the big screen and opened Dec. 23, 2022, in theaters only. Starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, an elephant, and a cast of thousands, Babylon opened to a disappointing $5.3 million over the four-day Christmas weekend. As of the first week of January,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie, Bow, Brad, Balzary: Five Malibu Connections to Damien Chazelle&#8217;s film on Old Hollywood. During this fractured, tech-turbulent 21st century, when motion pictures are caught in a tug of war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}