Margot Robbie could end up starring in three big studio bombs in a row.

The Rock?

I actually think Babylon looks promising. Margot has made good choices ( or her agent has) thus far but I agree about Barbie. Terrible idea and way too 2004/2005 ish for current audiences. It's one of those movie ideas that just looks outdated rather than vintage.

[quote] Plus, no one gives a shit about old Hollywood.

The Netflix mini-series "Hollywood," about old Hollywood, got pretty good ratings.

She’s taking big paycheck movies and it’s going to hurt her. I think that’s what happens in Hollywood. Once you become a high value, smaller movies can’t afford you and big studios want to make money off you and will put you in bullshit with big budgets.

It’s better to rake in all the cash she can right now. When she ages out of leading lady status (she’s already in her 30s) she can do the artsy independent stuff.

She doesn't have enough talent to make up for her lack of box office prowess.

[quote]When she ages out of leading lady status

Honey, she's never been a leading lady.

I want to see her career flushed down the toilet for being a phony liberal/feminist by working with the likes of Tarantino, James Gunn, David O. Russell and Brad Pitt.

R5 I feel like she’s been in her 30’s for over 10 years.

Hollywood needs to stop foisting these boring aussie women on Americans.

This bitch is doing EVERYTHING right. She is slick and savvy! More power to her! She will be a HUGE star very soon!

She's in demand and not slowing down working on multiple projects. In postproduction is "Asteroid City" the new Wes Anderson film. She's listed as the lead of a large ensemble that includes Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johannson, Steve Carell, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Tilda, Swinton, Leiv Schreiber, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum and Matt Dillion. The film is about an astronomy convention in a desert town in the 1950's, where "students and parents meet and their knowledge, experiences and lives overlap in unexpected ways." She's fine and sends her love.

I don't even really think she's competent. Totally boring.

She's given some very good performances and some mediocre ones. But at least she doesn't do the Michelle Williams/ Amy Adams/ Naomi Watts thing of playing every single role looking like she's on the verge of tears. The sooner Sad Leading Lady goes out of vogue the better. It wasn't like this in the 90s. Say what you will about Julia Roberts and Sharon Stone but at least they didn't seem so comatose and in need of a seroquel infusion.

Robbie should do another 60s/70s era film like OATIH, maybe a 70s noir set in L.A. or something. Her look is very much of that era.

She's very good in "I, Tonya". Even though she's far too beautiful to be Tonya Harding it's told from her perspective so why wouldn't she make herself more beautiful. An excellent film, funny, touching and Allison Janney kills, as always, as her mom.

There is always work in soaps back in Australia for Margot.

I like Gosling and Robbie, but I would never cast them in Barbie. I would think along the lines of Armie Hammer and Charlize Theron.

[quote]Honey, she's never been a leading lady. [quote] She will be a HUGE star very soon!

Christ: delusional much? She's both a huge star and a leading lady.

But I agree, there's a sameness to many of her performances. Of course, one can say that of all stars. But very very competent. And sane.

#18's link shows she's had some minor tweaks done to her face. Softer and prettier than the pic below.

She looks so much fucking older than her age. I thought she was a well preserved 40.

But at least I got $12 million for each bomb, much more than you will ever make in your fat lifetime, fat OP.

R20 No, she's in her early 30s and looks it. Most people that age don't still have the face of teenagers. I like the fact that she actually looks like an adult. It's tiresome watching films where a character well into adulthood still looks 14. People have become so used to unnaturally young faces that they claim that anyone who doesn't look unusually young looks a decade older.

[quote] The Netflix mini-series "Hollywood," about old Hollywood, got pretty good ratings.

No it didn’t. It was a huge flop.

^ Because the casting and writing was mundane! Just like this new one.

[quote]It was a huge flop.

At least we'll always have Bros!

I hate it when trolls are obvious. This OP is sloppy as hell, yet of course there are always DLers who will bite.

This is Hollywood, she’s had a mature look for years and look at those lines around the eyes, she must smoke.

Good that she’s not injecting around her eyes with poison though.

Barbie is not going to bomb.

R15 She's not good in that clip either. Ugh. And the tone of that film? Wannabe citizen Ruth. Same way she does Harley Jane or whatever, it's not even funny or anything.

Barbie should do well as a curiosity object with big stars, but Babylon will bomb badly. Babylon and Amsterdam may just be written off as expensive director’s caprices, though, and Barbie will be seen as the genuine litmus test of her star power.

Everything is working against Babylon -110 million budget, opens a week after Avatar, r-rated with nudity and sexual content which the American audience frown upon, brad child abuse allegations and the ceo of paramount was fired after he green light the movie.

I thought the Babylon trailer was excellent! I can't wait.

Sorry did i miss something? Did Amsterdam bomb?

R34 = Bombed hard. They're predicted to make a $100 million loss on the movie.

Margot is box office poison.

Actually, she's already starred in 3 flops in a row... Birds of Prey (2020), The Suicide Squad (2021), Amsterdam (2022). Bombshell (2019) was also a box office disappointment.

There's something seriously wrong with movie titles these days. They don't capture people's interest. "Bros"? WTF is that- Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen on a road trip?

All those bombs and she's in her thirties too which is not good for a female actor.

Amsterdam was terrible but I actually liked Margot in it. John David Washington is an awful actor and had zero chemistry with her, unfortunately. It’s a mess.

Woe be to her.

[quote]Margot is box office poison.

She’s been in some very successful movies as well (Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad, I Tonya) and she’s twice Oscar nominated. Also arguably the most beautiful actress working in Hollywood today. She’s fine.

R39 Don't go talkin' about my son like that! I'll send Will over to your place to slap your white face.

Also from this decade:

Birds of Prey: Not a total flop, but certainly a disappointment and pretty mediocre as a movie.

Dreamland: Did not make any money, but wasn't really supposed to. Medicore film. I heard the original script was better.

Suicide Squad 2: A box office bomb, but performed relatively well on streaming services and has its fans (I'm not one of them).