Christopher Nolan: ‘I Feel Great About the State of the Movie Business’ After $954 Million ‘Oppenheimer’ Box Office

‘Barbie’ Leads UK Home Entertainment Charts 

Cillian Murphy has won the Golden Globe for best performance by a male actor in a motion picture drama for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan-directed Oppenheimer. This was Murphy’s second Golden Globe nomination and his first win.

Jaden Thompson Cillian Murphy has won the Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture – drama for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” in which he plays the J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” “I knew the first time I walked on a Christopher Nolan set that it was different,” Murphy said during his acceptance speech. “I could tell by the level of rigor, the level of focus, the level of dedication, the complete lack of any seating options for actors [Laughter] that I was in the hands of the visionary director and master.” Murphy continued, “I want to thank Chris and Emma [Thomas] for having the faith in me for 20 years.

The National Society of Film Critics 58th annual awards has honored Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives for its top prize, beating out runners-up Oppenheimer and The Zone of Interest for Best Picture.

social media detectives tracked the footage down and figured it out. “Directors have a complex emotional relationship with critics and criticism,” the “Interstellar” and “Inception” director said in his Jan 4. acceptance speech for “best director,” after winning that prize from the New York Film Critics Circle on Thursday.

Christopher Nolan has revealed that a Peloton instructor once launched scathing critique of his 2020 film Tenet – and you can now watch a clip of their rant.The director shared the story on Wednesday (January 3) during his acceptance speech for Best Director at the New York Film Critics Circle award ceremony.“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying.

Christopher Nolan is opening up about the time he took a Peloton class and got dissed by the instructor in the middle of the workout.

Oppenheimer” told the room full of journalists that a movie of his was once criticized by a Peloton instructor mid-cycle.“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying,” Nolan, 53, said onstage at Tao.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Thanks to Mario, J. Robert Oppenheimer and M3GAN, Universal Pictures ranked as the highest-grossing studio at the 2023 box office. The company’s slate — a range of 24 films that included “The Super Mario Bros.

As recently covered in a conversation about “Batman Begins,” Academy Award winner Gary Oldman (“The Darkest Hour”) was recently on the Happy Sad Confused at 92 Street Y In New York. In the selection we covered, Oldman revealed that he was up for a villain role in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman’ movie but was sick of playing villains, and through his agent, they suggested Commissioner Jim Gordon instead, one of Batman’s most trusted allies.

British actor Tom Wilkinson, who won a Bafta for his work in The Full Monty and was Oscar-nominated for Michael Clayton and In The Bedroom, has died at 75 on Saturday. No cause was given.

Barack Obama has published his annual list of his favourite films of 2023 – check out the full list below.The former president has long been publishing his personal lists of favourite music, films and books at the end of every year.In a post on X, Obama introduced his list by writing: “Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections. It led to important changes that will transform the industry for the better.”Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections.

box office. But in the last year, many of the movie business’ Tiffany franchises had all the appeal of an Old Navy clearance bin, with the likes of Indiana Jones and Ethan Hunt swinging back into action for more high-flying adventures only to be greeted with grosses that were decidedly Earthbound. And cinema’s mightiest heroes, from Ant-Man to Aquaman, were told to hang up their tights and tridents as comic book movies suffered a historic collapse at the box office.

Warner Bros. comedy “Barbie” capping off 2023 as the highest-grossing movie ($1.44 billion) and Universal‘s historical biopic “Oppenheimer” as the third-biggest hit (a staggering $951 million). Studios were (finally!) rewarded for bucking the overly familiar and embracing the new and novel.

Christopher Nolan is praising Zack Snyder for his influence in the superhero science-fiction film genre.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Zack Snyder is currently leading the Netflix charts with his space opera “Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire,” and he recently got a huge sign of support from none other than Christopher Nolan. In a profile published by The Atlantic, Nolan said Snyder’s influence on cinema is so dominant that part of his touch can be felt in any “superhero science-fiction film coming out these days.” Nolan served as a producer on Snyder’s “Man of Steel” (2013), which was based on a story Nolan cracked with his “Dark Knight” trilogy co-writer David S. Goyer.

Oppenheimer”).During the simultaneous Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes, the sagging box office was boosted, like NFL ratings and the economy of East Rutherford, New Jersey, by Taylor Swift.Marvel Studios, which used to be the surest thing in Hollywood, began to underperform (“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”) and then downright flop (“The Marvels”).And DC was revealed to actually stand for Dud Central, with all of the studio’s comic-book films of 2023 (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash” and “Blue Beetle”) turning out to be financial failures.In a win for Gen Z, studio execs determined Zendaya’s star wattage is so huge now that two of her movies — “Dune: Part 2” and “Challengers” — were delayed a year due to the strikes, so she can promote them to her hoards of fans. And baby boomers were dinged by the big-time tanking of the nostalgic “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” starring a now 81-year-old Harrison Ford who schlepped around New York and Europe.Despite all the madness — and a sea of schlock — some excellent films hit theaters this year.

Andrew Haigh’s drama All of Us Strangers has landed nine London Critics’ Circle Awards nominations, ahead of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which has scored seven.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan wrote the script about the titular complicated and brilliant physicist tasked with leading the Manhattan Project, the secret effort to create the atom bomb, and the moral and political struggles that followed.

Christopher Nolan is reflecting on the movie business and explains why Oppenheimer is his most successful film to date.