One can argue that Oppenheimer may not have reached that achievement, or even the total domestic gross that it did, were it not for the accompanying Barbie factor alongside it, but nonetheless, the film has now hit the target by grossing over $270 million in four weeks of release.
Director Christopher Nolan's film, Oppenheimer, is a box office success, grossing nearly $900 million worldwide in less than two months. It has surpassed Nolan's previous film Inception at the global box office, becoming his third-biggest release of all time.
Oppenheimer overtakes Bohemian Rhapsody to become biggest biopic of all time. Oppenheimer has overtaken Bohemian Rhapsody to become the highest ever grossing biopic at the worldwide box office.
Produced on a reported budget of $100 million, Oppenheimer has been massively profitable for Universal, considering that it broke even when it passed the $400 million mark worldwide — itself an unusually high benchmark, considering its budget.
Oppenheimer has made $311.2 million domestically and $542.8 million at the international box office. Without adjusting for inflation, the movie is 53-year-old Nolan's biggest box office hit worldwide since 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, which did cross the $1 billion mark globally.
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Why is Oppenheimer budget so low?
With the cast and visual effects likely taking up the vast majority of the budget, Oppenheimer takes full advantage of its limited filming locations. Most of the movie takes place in the deserts of New Mexico, which is likely a pretty cheap location to film in.
Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new sense of precariousness.
Chinese ticketing app Maoyan forecasts Oppenheimer will finish its local run with approximately $57 million, which will make it the fourth-biggest U.S. film release in China in 2023 behind Fast X ($139.5 million), Meg 2: The Trench ($116.5 million, but a China co-production) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
According to Variety, and it's quite clear by just looking at the current numbers, “Oppenheimer” will not be breaking the billion dollar mark at the global box office.
Universal's Oppenheimer surpassed Warner Bros' Barbie in the global box office race, claiming the top spot in its sixth week of release. Oppenheimer earned $8.2 million in North America and $30.7 million in international markets, contributing to a total of $777.9 million worldwide.
So it was no real surprise that both films utterly smashed the Box Office: Barbie has so far made a whopping $1.4 billion worldwide, while Oppenheimer has made $912 million.
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How long was Oppenheimer working on the atomic bomb?
Robert Oppenheimer, in full Julius Robert Oppenheimer, (born April 22, 1904, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 18, 1967, Princeton, New Jersey), American theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (1943–45) during development of the atomic bomb and as director ...
The lead figure in that heroic tale was a man named Deng Jiaxian. Regarded as the father of China's nuclear program, Deng was born in my home province of Anhui in the tumultuous 1920s. After completing his undergraduate studies in China, he went to the United States for graduate school.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was a very successful man in his lifetime. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer served as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb. His estimatedIQ scores range from 160 to 310 by different measures.
As great as the film is, the sex scenes and prolonged nudity (which helped earn “Oppenheimer” an R rating) seem unnecessary, and given the use of religious elements during those scenes, also patently offensive. In “Oppenheimer,” Nolan chose to use the Hindu holy scripture Bhagavad Gita in a scene with sex and nudity.
Oppenheimer was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times, but never won. Kunetka said that the simplest explanation is that before WWII, Oppenheimer's published work was not considered significant enough.
According to a Variety report, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. each received $4 million for their roles in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Well, also note that this is just a fraction of their usual salary.
How much did Robert Downey Jr make from Oppenheimer?
Downey Jr. who played Lewis Strauss, a naval officer who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) earned $4 million while Murphy took home $10 million.
In the first six months of 2023, the Barbie brand made $459.6 million in global gross billings, a 23% decline from the same period in 2022. Gross billings represent amounts invoiced to customers and don't include the impact of sales adjustments, such as trade discounts.
