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.
Funnily enough, both movies feature performances by Rami Malek. After hitting $912 million in ticket sales at the global box office this past weekend, writer-director Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (currently playing in theaters everywhere) is now the highest-grossing biopic of all time.
Its simultaneous release with Warner Bros.'s Barbie led to the Barbenheimer cultural phenomenon, which encouraged audiences to see both films as a double feature. The film received critical acclaim for Nolan's direction, the screenplay, score, and the cast performances (particularly that of Murphy, Blunt, and Downey).
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, the phenomenally successful and critically acclaimed dramatic thriller from Christopher Nolan, has achieved a new record milestone in US theatrical history, as it is poised surpass 2016's Sing to become the highest-grossing domestic movie of all time to never reach the top spot at the box office.
In the realm of cinema, the movie “Oppenheimer” has carved an indelible mark. The film, led by Cillian Murphy as the titular character, has crossed the global box office milestone of $500 million on August 5, 2023. Depicting the saga of J.
Oppenheimer might be the best film I watched in a long, long time. Very different than Nolan's recent films, especially the Sci-Fi ones, but shows that Nolan can master the Biopic/Drama genre just as well as he can any other genre he tried to tackle yet.
By September 1, 2023, Oppenheimer had already grossed $788 million worldwide. That makes it the second most successful R-rated movie of all-time. Oppenheimer was also predicted to gross $50 million over its first weekend. Instead, it made $80.5 million, with strong sales throughout the week.
Barbie wins this one, gaining almost double the box office revenue as Oppenheimer. However, Barbie did have some advantages that must be taken into account. Barbie opened to $155 million over the weekend, meaning it overtook the Super Mario Bros. for biggest debut of the year.
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.
Oppenheimer has received criticism for not showing the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and for overlooking the history and impact of Indigenous Americans at Los Alamos. Christopher Nolan's new movie has been very well received, but that has not stopped a few different Oppenheimer controversies from surfacing.
Oppenheimer's security clearance was suspended in 1953, leading to public hearings in 1954 where he was accused of communist ties, resulting in the loss of his clearance and ending his direct influence on nuclear policy, while his health deteriorated and he reflected on missed opportunities.
With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film's earnings.
How much a company is worth is typically represented by its market capitalization, or the current stock price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. Oppenheimer Holdings net worth as of October 02, 2023 is $0.39B.
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.
But Einstein turned against politicians long before that. "The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him — the United States government," Einstein once said, according to the book "American Prometheus," which the movie is based on. That's an "Einstein-level burn," Wellerstein said.
What movie did better at the box office Barbie or Oppenheimer?
“Barbie” is the highest grossing film of the summer (and the year) with $612 million in North America and $1.36 billion globally to date. “Oppenheimer” also wildly outperformed expectations with $311 at the domestic box office and $850 million worldwide.
9 Barbie's Runtime Allowed For More Showings Than Oppenheimer. At less than two hours long, Barbie had a runtime that fans could tolerate, particularly if they were on the younger side. At three hours long, Oppenheimer's runtime required some serious dedication and wasn't going to be a good fit for all attention spans.
As of Sunday, “Oppenheimer” has generated around $300 million at the domestic box office, the fifth-most this year, and topped $777 million globally, the fourth-highest, since its July 21 debut. The film's success comes at a time when major superhero movies and franchise sequels have underperformed.
As for Nolan, he told Universal Pictures that he wanted 20% of every dollar Oppenheimer made. So far Nolan has earned a respectable $180m. This is sure to go up seeing as he also ordered for the film to be in cinemas for three to four months.
Oppenheimer, with a budget of $100 million, has secured its place as Christopher Nolan's fourth most expensive film, trailing behind the budgets of Batman Begins ($150 million), Interstellar ($165 million), The Dark Knight ($185 million), Tenet ($200 million) and The Dark Knight Rises ($250 million).
YouTuber and WWE star Logan Paul wasn't a fan of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, admitting that he walked out of the theater as he found the film dull and hard to follow.
There is sex (several frontal nudity scenes), infidelity, extremely complex issues at stake with the nuclear explosion killing innocent civilians that plagues the mind of Oppenheimer, and some questionable role models. It should be seen by those interested in the time and the character and the history.
'Oppenheimer' is based on a true story. Even when the plot seems outrageous, we all love a movie based on a true story. "Oppenheimer" is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, and the creation of the atomic bomb.
