Damien Chazelle's Babylon will hit theaters nationwide a little earlier than originally planned
The wide release of Babylon has been moved from January 6 to December 23

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Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy in Babylon Image: Paramount Pictures
After years of seeing film release dates shift back, and back again, it feels quite rare for a feature’s theatrical debut to move up on the calendar, but it seems Paramount is just that confident in the potential success of Damien Chazelle’s Babylon.
The production company has announced that instead of arriving in select theaters on December 25, then going nationwide on January 6, everyone now has the chance to see the new epic on December 23. Babylon will now enter the box office ring with James Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar: The Way of Water (which opens wide on Dec. 16), as well as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.