David Ayer may never get to release his director’s cut of “Suicide Squad,” but he’s maintaining relevancy thanks to the success of “The Beekeeper.” Ayer’s latest made $152.6 million at the global box office off a $40 million budget: a big enough success to guarantee that he’ll at least make mid-budget movies for the foreseeable future.

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And that’s precisely what Ayer has up next.

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It’s official: Damien Chazelle‘s “Babylon” is a box office bomb, and one of the biggest bombs of 2022, to be precise. The film made only $5.3 million over the four-day holiday weekend off a budget of $80 million. So, safe to say this one won’t turn a profit for Paramount. Of course, there are myriad reasons audiences didn’t show up for “Babylon” beyond it being Christmas, like the polar vortex last weekend or the film’s bloated three-hour runtime.

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