Documentary/Biopic Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

[Filmfreak]

There really needs to be a greater number of IMAX 70mm aka True IMAX theaters in the USA. They are almost always sold out for most films and it seems like such a no brainer to add a few more per year.

I would expand that wish. Some of us don't even have regular IMAX in our cities/countries.

 

[Kane52630]

I think there was talk of expanding IMAX screens 10 years ago but I think what happened instead was they expanded the all fake IMAX screens.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Unfortunately, not a lot of studios/filmmakers know how to shoot for Imax properly like Christopher Nolan. Or didn’t spend the money to. Even Mission Impossible dropped the ball this year in that regard compared to Fallout.

 

[Detective Conan]

Just saw the film today in 70mm and yeah believe the hype this is a masterpiece. Nolan really outdid himself this time. Wow.

 

[Boom]

One of the best endings to a movie I've seen in a long long time.

And yeah, after that gym scene, I'd be curious to see Nolan take a stab at a horror film. Put a pit in your stomach.

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

After years of disappointments with Nolan's recent output (Dunkirk & Tenet) I thoroughly enjoyed Oppenheimer and think it's a great movie, with great performances led by the always great Cillian Murphy (who I was excited got the role) and storytelling and comes together well in the end. Despite its very long runtime it's fast-paced, and if anything some scenes could have used some more time but it's fine enough as is. For a long time I felt and said that Nolan needed to get back to something smaller and character-based and more talky instead of action and special effects and now that that's happened it's turned out to meet/exceed my expectations. Bottom line is everybody should give this movie a chance even if you too felt Nolan's recent stuff was lacking.

 

[BatLobster]

One of the best endings to a movie I've seen in a long long time.

When it comes to knowing how to deliver a memorable and impactful ending to a movie, he's the best in the business as far as I'm concerned.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Finally saw this tonight and was engrossed for 90 mins. Then I unfortunately became unbearably hot and couldn't enjoy the rest of the movie. Had a bit of a bug all day which I thought I had gotten rid of but evidently not.

Gonna have to give this a 6/10 for now but will need to watch it again.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Boom]

Unreal. I had this capping at $500 mil. Could do nearly double that.

 

[-Arya-]

An R rated 3 hour drama is attracting more business worldwide than Indiana Jones, The Flash, Antman 3, Transformers, Mission Impossible, and The Little Mermaid.

Insane

 

[DarkKnight88]

Universal bet big on the filmmaker and it paid off.

I’d say WB must be kicking themselves for letting him go, but then they had Barbie.

Crazy to think though that they could’ve had both Barbie AND Oppenheimer this summer.

 

[Kane52630]

If they had both movies, I really couldn't see them releasing both in the summer. I would guess because Nolan loves that date, they would move Barbie to November or December for the holidays.

 

[BatLobster]

All things considered, I'm thinking both studios are probably happy that Barbenheimer happened the way it did.

An R rated 3 hour drama is attracting more business worldwide than Indiana Jones, The Flash, Antman 3, Transformers, Mission Impossible, and The Little Mermaid.

Insane

It's amazing, but unfortunately I'm not sure there's a lesson here that can be so easily replicated. This is just the result of a decades-long building of trust between filmmaker and audience (and that trust goes both ways) paying off beautifully.

But its success coming in the wake of a bunch of franchise IP bombs is still a positive in that it makes it unmistakably clear that there is an underserved adult audience out there that is hungry for something different and ready to show up for it. How studios take in that information, I have no idea, but there it is.

 

[Gothamsknight]

This summer has been incredibly unpredictable. And once again, Nolan proves why hes in a league of his own.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Nolan's power. People forget Tenet made almost $400 million when theaters were closed in 2020.

 

[Detective Conan]

An R rated 3 hour drama is attracting more business worldwide than Indiana Jones, The Flash, Antman 3, Transformers, Mission Impossible, and The Little Mermaid.

Insane

That’s why this movie’s success is far more impressive than IP based movies like Barbie. It’s undeniably the most impressive box office success story just simply for the fact it doesn’t rely on nostalgia for an old IP. An optimistic sign that audience taste in movies if you ask me. Movie has no action and is most of the time a talk my drama with little explosions yet is managing to beat pretty much any of big blockbuster movies that gives you plenty of that. It is insane - in all the best possible ways.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

That’s why this movie’s success is far more impressive than IP based movies like Barbie. It’s undeniably the most impressive box office success story just simply for the fact it doesn’t rely on nostalgia for an old IP. An optimistic sign that audience taste in movies if you ask me. Movie has no action and is most of the time a talk my drama with little explosions yet is managing to beat pretty much any of big blockbuster movies that gives you plenty of that. It is insane - in all the best possible ways.

I agree, it's interesting to see a film like this do well. I do however think that Nolan's name is so well known that he brings the same effect as an IP (the Batman IP was also a big factor why he became a household name). Have an unknown person make the exact same film and I think it does significantly worse at the BO.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

Nolan's power. People forget Tenet made almost $400 million when theaters were closed in 2020.

People mocked the Box office run of that movie. But if you look at the context it was released in, the run was pretty impressive.

 

[Dr.]

According to reports, Nolan* will pocket 20% of the box office gross. But I’m not clear whether this means just North American $$$. With NA, there’s a relatively clear formula as to how much the studio gets from the BO; and from there, said studio can decide if it makes sense to give 20% away to Big Name Talent. However, different international markets have different (usually lower) net income formulas. So it strikes me as doubtful that the 20% could apply — universally — to the world-wide total. In any case, Nolan’s current take on Oppenheimer would be between $48M (at a bare minimum) and $116M. And, obviously, those aren’t the final numbers.


* Probably not Nolan, solely. Very likely the deal is with Syncopy; so the 20% also covers renumeration for Emma Thomas.

 

[Filmfreak]

And I think all that is additional to another 20 million paycheck he got back when the deal for this movie was made.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I would assume Universal is Nolan's home now, at least for his next film.

 

[Dr.]

And I think all that is additional to another 20 million paycheck he got back when the deal for this movie was made.

Is that how it works? I got the impression that these “up front payments” represented minimums. I.e./e.g., if the movie absolutely bombed, Nolan was still guaranteed $20M. So it’s $20M or 20% of the gross — whichever is bigger. But not both. I admit, however, that I’m fairly clueless when it comes to Hollywood deals and Hollywood accounting. So maybe it is both.

 

[Detective Conan]

I agree, it's interesting to see a film like this do well. I do however think that Nolan's name is so well known that he brings the same effect as an IP (the Batman IP was also a big factor why he became a household name). Have an unknown person make the exact same film and I think it does significantly worse at the BO.

Oh you’re definitely right about that. No doubt Nolan’s name is a major reason for this success. Though even with Nolan’s name recognition I still think this is quite impressive feat because this is the movie with the least amount of action or conventional “blockbuster spectacle” This seems like it’s on track to surpass Inception as the highest grossing non-Batman movie he’s done. Which is simply astonishing to me and it’s the movie with the least amount of action.