Posted on 09/20/2023 6:54:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Hopes were always high for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” The studio knew the film was great, and commercial. But no one in the industry expected that a long, talky, R-rated drama released at the height of the summer movie season would earn over $900 million at the box office.
After an early screening, “ Dune” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve said he knew he’d just seen “a masterpiece.” He even remembered saying that it would be a big success.
“But where it is right now has blown the roof off of my projection,” Villeneuve told The Associated Press. “It’s a three-hour movie about people talking about nuclear physics.”
As of Monday, “Oppenheimer’s” global total was nearly $913 million, making it Nolan’s third highest grossing film, trailing only the “Dark Knight” sequels. It’s also the third biggest film of the year behind “Barbie” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and the most successful biopic ever, surpassing “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It’s a staggering sum that has been driven by audiences of all ages and an enthusiasm for film and large format screenings.
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Well, that's disappointing.
Barbie and Mario Bros. is a tough nut to crack in this country. Oppenheimer didn’t stand a chance. ROTFL.
With ticket prices as high as they are... Earnings are obviously overblown.
If Gone with the Wind had as many ticket sales today as when it was released, it would’ve likely have made 2 or 3 billion dollars in revenue. Making todays films appear more like ‘B’ movies, rather than ‘A’ list movies.
Don’t do movies much at all any more. Haven’t seen any of these three and don’t plan on it. Not even if you can eventually rent the VHS. Or is that something else now? \_(**)_/
I’ll see it when it’s free on streaming
Haven’t paid to see a new release since ‘94 when I took my daughter and her friend to see The Lion King
I saw it and it was a great film although I wondered how many in the audience really understood it. I would never have thought a serious film like Oppenheimer would have done almost $1 Billion at the box office. It goes to show that a well made film without a Woke agenda to it can do very well when it tells a great story.
The question is will the rest of Hollywood see this and abandon the WOKE? I think some will, Universal is avoiding it, but Disney seems determined to Double Down and do as much as they can. They have hired Jenna Ortega for some film roles, like a reboot of Pirates of the Caribbean, Jenna is no fan of woke and has told Disney she will not play a Woke character in any film for them. So let’s see what Disney does.
It played at the same time as Barbie and Sound of Freedom.
Many showings of the above 2 were sold out and Movie goers chose Oppenheimer as their second choice.
At a multi-plex one screen shows Sound of Freedom. 3 screens show Barbie. Both had sold out crowds, no seats available. But the total for Barbie was 3 times that of Freedom.
But Oppenheimer was a good movie, as was Sound of Freedom.
I never saw Barbie so can’t comment.
I've heard our interest payment alone with be a trillion dollars a year, and inflation only makes it worse. Wait until the unfunded liabilities start becoming due. They used t o criticize Ronald Reagan for making the debt a trillion. We've added another 32 trillion in just 35 years.
From where I sit, if my bank account looked like that my only way out would be bankruptcy or a bullet to the brain.
Either way that is not rich. But it's rather interesting that he would make this claim. More proof that he's an idiot.
With adultery, a bomb test, and Cold War politics ground thoroughly into the mix.
I have not see Barbie. But Margot Robbie has never disappointed me.
This movie is successful because Nolan directed it.
Nolan is the best director of the 21st Century. What draws audiences to his films are the story lines, the character struggles. He minimizes special effects as much as possible.
I would love for him to do a biopic on George Washington, to be released in 2026. I think such a movie would easily top $5 billion.
Even after accounting for simple inflation, each ticket costs more than twice as much as it used to.
I took my kids to see Barbie.
I enjoyed it. It was fun and entertaining. All the conservative handwringing over it was misplaced, IMHO.
And Margot Robbie remains so freakin' incredibly beautiful.
“Oppenheimer” was the best movie I’ve seen in several years, and it’s the best film Christopher Nolan has made, which is saying something.
Oppenheimer is a great movie because its story was well crafted from the book, “American Prometheus”. Nolan had a great and complex character to work with, a perfect goal (build the bomb to end the war), and a tragic aftermath when Oppie’s leftist sympathies opposing racism and fascism in the ‘30s, became grist for his political enemies in the McCarthy era.
It wasn’t brought out in the film, but he realized he had been a useful idiot regarding the Russians when they totally dismissed his efforts to negotiate nuclear arms controls after the war.
What I didn’t see was the purpose of using 70mm. It was interesting for some of the bomb test scenes, but superfluous for most of the lab dialog and the clearance hearing scenes. It may have been something Nolan likes to work with, but it didn’t add to the great story enough to justify its expense or complexity.
I haven't seen it yet but yes it seems as if he loves 70mm and it was especially well used in the Batman movies...especially the first one.
I actually meant the second one....the Dark Knight and the scenes in Singapore(?) where he snatched the squealer from his office building.
Great point.
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