Paramount Home Entertainment Sets Mar. 21 As The Street Date For Writer/Director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon

Paramount Home Entertainment has tabbed Mar. 21 as the roll-out date for a full spread of home entertainment packaged media product offerings of writer/director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon.

The ARR works out to 88 days and domestic box office receipts currently stand at $15.4 million.

Planned for distribution are stand-alone DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD editions.

With the Hollywood studios celebrating the 100^th Anniversary of their founding, the timing is perfect for a film that looks back at the transition from the silent to the sound era and some of the notable “personalities” that nominated the film scene in the 1920s and early 30s.  

Brad Pitt as leading man Jack Conrad, Margot Robbie as Nellie and Diego Calva as Manny are more or less amalgamated characters, while the likes of Constance Moore (Samara Weaving), Marion Davies (Chloe Fineman), William Randolph Hearst (Pat Skipper), James Wong Howe (Alexandre Chen), Irving Thalberg (Max Minghella) and others were key Hollywood players during the period.

Technically, the film is a marvel, with Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Original Score and Best Production Design.

Bonus goodies include deleted and extended scenes and three production featurettes — “A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon,” “The Costumes of Babylon” and “Scoring Babylon.”