How ‘Oppenheimer’ and Christopher Nolan’s Oscar Prospects Dramatically Improve With ‘Dune 2’ Moving to 2024

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Lights, camera, Oscars. When you chat with someone about filmmakers and mention Steven Spielberg, even the most oblivious Hollywood consumer knows who you’re talking about. Yet the helmers of the year’s most critically acclaimed and top-grossing movies aren’t typically household names.

The X Factor star Christopher Maloney looked bloody and bruised after undergoing eyelid surgery in Poland.The surgery that conducted the cosmetic procedure, which aims to improve hooded or drooping eyelids and eye bags, posted a video of the 45 year old singer following the surgery, where he could been seen with rather bruised-looking eyes. He said: "I think obviously people worry about coming abroad for surgery because it's a foreign country and they think people don't speak English, and the cleanliness and how good is the surgeon.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.

A man has been left fighting for his life following a 'targeted attack' in north Manchester. Greater Manchester Police says the 34-year-old was rushed to hospital last night (September 11) with serious injuries consistent with the use of a bladed article.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Every awards season, pundits leave themselves open to late-year breakers. This is where a film not necessarily on anyone’s radar comes in and walks away with the industry’s most coveted prize for best picture.

Todd Gilchrist editor “I’ve never really had a marketing plan ever in my career,” says Gerald Maxwell Rivera, better known as Maxwell. Though he acknowledges “I’m sure someone was doing one in the building somewhere,” the reason why a more concerted effort wasn’t made may be because the R&B singer, songwriter and producer seemed to arrive fully-formed upon the release of “Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite,” his lush, libidinous 1996 debut album.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Christopher Nolan’s dark historical epic “Oppenheimer” has crossed another remarkable box office milestone with $850 million in global ticket sales. The movie, starring Cillian Murphy as the so-called “father of the atomic bomb,” has generated $311 million in North America and $542.7 million internationally to date. The film continues to crush expectations, especially for a somber, R-rated biographical historical drama that unfolds largely in dreary rooms of fast-talking scientists and politicians.

The two seemingly unstoppable phenoms of summer 2023 are each setting new milestones this weekend as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie through Friday has become the No.1 film of the year globally, overtaking The Super Mario Bros Movie with $1.365B. In the same breath, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer this frame is continuing its incredible run with the Universal title set to pass $850M globally through Sunday. This will see it surpass the filmmaker’s 2010 Inception as his 3rd highest-grossing title ever worldwide.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor How much longer will the Oscars wait? That is, wait to embrace the quality and sheer brilliance of documentary filmmaking in a significant way, meaning nominating one in the best picture category? Matthew Heineman’s deeply moving “American Symphony,” which follows Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Jon Batiste as he prepares for his performance at Carnegie Hall, is yet another home run for the filmmaker behind “Cartel Land” and “City of Ghosts,” not to mention a singular love story. Batiste’s larger-than-life personality was on full display following the Telluride screening of the documentary, when he led a band down to the main street of Telluride.

Popular Channel 4 series, The Traitors, will soon be returning as filming gets underway at Scotland's Ardross Castle.The show proved a hit over the Christmas period last year when 22 strangers competed for a £100,000 prize in a game of subterfuge and drama in the Gothic castle. Aerial photos of the castle show black cars arriving as this year's contestants make their way to the place they'll be staying for the next few weeks as the murder mystery game gets underway.

Christopher Nolan cut the Oppenheimer shoot by a month in order to free up money for set design, it has been revealed.Speaking on the Team Deakins podcast, production designer Ruth De Jong discussed Nolan re-allocating the budget from 30 planned filming days to production design.“It felt like a $100 million indie,” De Jong said. “This is not Tenet. Chris wanted to shoot all over the United States…just plane tickets alone and putting crew up all over the place [is expensive].

Christopher Nolan gave up filming time for Oppenheimer in order to increase the budget for the production designer and recreate Los Alamos.

“You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”Director Sammi Cohen told People recently how the Sandler clan got together to celebrate his now 14-year-old daughter Sunny’s big day.“What’s really funny is right before we started prepping for the film, Sunny had her actual bat mitzvah,” Cohen revealed.“So I went to that service, and we got to do the real-life bat mitzvah and then left to make the movie. It was a really fun life movie moment.”Cohen continued that the bash “felt equally as fun as the parties you see [in the film].”“It was really, really fun.

Time was, Hollywood filmmakers would regularly travel to China in support of their movies, attending premieres and holding Q&As to drum up buzz in the massive box office market. The pandemic halted that ritual — until this week when Christopher Nolan became the first major Hollywood filmmaker since Covid to stroll a red carpet in China as his Oppenheimer was premiered at Universal Studios’ CityWalk IMAX theater in Beijing, followed by a stop in Shanghai for more screenings and fan interaction.

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Florence Pugh might not have had a large part in Oppenheimer, but it certainly made an impact.

Florence Pugh is among the stars of “Oppenheimer”, playing Jean Tatlock, lover of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), a relatively small role in the film.

Christopher Nolan apologised to her over the size of her role in Oppenheimer.The actor stars in the historical drama as Jean Tatlock, a communist party member who had a romantic relationship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy).Speaking to MTV UK, Pugh explained how Nolan apologised when she was being offered the part.“I didn’t really know what was going on or what it was that was being made,” Pugh said.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has surpassed $700 million at the global box office, becoming the fourth-highest grossing movie of the year. After five weeks of release, the R-rated historical drama has generated $718 million at the worldwide box office, including $285 million in North America and $437 million internationally. The film has outperformed “Fast X” ($704 million) and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ($686 million) and trails behind “The Super Mario Bros.

Katie Maloney is throwing shade at Rachel Leviss. After Leviss, the woman at the heart of Scandoval, gave a bombshell interview to Bravolebrity Bethenny Frankel, Maloney took to Instagram to express her distaste with her former co-star.«What in the hot garbage is this?» Maloney commented on Frankel's post promoting her interview with Leviss.Later, Maloney shared a video to her Instagram Story that appeared to be about the situation.«You know that trending sound that was like, 'Why the f**k you lying?'» Maloney questioned in the video.