These directors and twitter can cry about movies flopping but let´s be honest how was Babylon not flopping? 3-hours, Rated R, horrible reviews and horrible CS score suggesting WOM isn´t that all. It got every ingredient to flop. Everything Everywhere got to 100M from what 25M budget? Dune (I consider it as a orginal film tho it´s prob not really) got to 400M. Original films can succeed, not maybe on the level of a MCU movie, or Avatar but there is room for it. The budget on this was way 2 high. Did he really need 80M to make this movie?