Oscar-Winner Damien Chazelle Explores Early Hollywood in "Babylon"

Academy Award-winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash) is taking things to a whole new level. Go behind the scenes and experience the movie magic of Babylon in a newly released featurette about the director.

Watch the film’s “Damien Chazelle” featurette at https://youtu.be/IdLdRK5XyC8

From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo and Li Jun Li. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. 

"Babylon" First-Look Images Capture Decadence of Early Hollywood

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess. Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Tobey Maguire lead the stellar cast of Paramount Pictures’ new original epic, Babylon from La La Land director Damien Chazelle.

Check out the film’s first-look images below and watch Babylon in cinemas across the Philippines January 2023.

Watch the film’s uncensored trailer at https://youtu.be/JDokeoHR7_w

Experience the Impossible Journey to the Moon in "First Man"

Based on James R. Hansen’s book “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong,” Universal Pictures’ First Man reveals intimate insights into the global hero’s private life and previously unknown character-defining moments.  

Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) approached the film from interior angles in order to immerse audiences in this impossible journey.  

Chazelle’s fascination with the messiness of mastery drew him to Armstrong’s story.  As well, his interest in injecting into a massive period movie—one filled with action set-pieces—a genuine sense of raw spontaneity felt like a natural evolution.  While the director admits that type of filmmaking is usually impossible within the constraints imposed by scale or big technical effects, he felt that a tight collaboration with Ryan Gosling—extending to their bond with their fellow production team—would make it feasible.

"La La Land" Duo Gosling, Chazelle Re-teams for "First Man"

On the heels of their six-time Academy Award®-winning La La Land, Oscar®-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures’ First Man, the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/PSoRx87OO6k 

A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong’s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost—on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself—of one of the most dangerous missions in history.

Chazelle’s interest and stories continue to focus on the cost of achievement…and whether or not excellence is worth the price for those who reach.  Just as he reimagined the discipline of mentorship on the road to mastery in Whiplash—and deconstructed the movie musical in La La Land—Chazelle now challenges expectations of what a “mission picture” should resemble.  Discovering First Man alongside numerous collaborators, Chazelle approaches the film from interior angles in order to immerse audiences in this impossible journey.