Will Oppenheimer earn a billion at the box office?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While Christopher Nolan only broke the $1 billion barrier twice throughout his career, Oppenheimer could potentially change this trend. Christopher Nolan is a very commercially successful director and his work throughout the 2000s helped shape the tone and atmosphere of the decade’s blockbuster franchises.
Nolan’s latest movie is a biopic and an adaptation of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s biography American Prometheus. Oppenheimer sees Cillian Murphy play the tortured physicist who was instrumental in the construction of the atom bomb prototype. An unconventional biopic, Oppenheimer jumps back and forth between various stages of his life to give viewers an immersive look at his political views, his changing perspective on nuclear warfare, and his personal foibles.
Why Christopher Nolan Has Never Made A $1 Billion Movie Outside Of Batman Now, Oppenheimer looks like it could become the first Nolan movie outside of the director’s Dark Knight trilogy to earn a billion at the box office. 2014’s Interstellar made an impressive $715 million, but it was 2010’s Inception that came closest to this achievement when that hit netted $837 million. This proves just how hard it is for non-franchise movies to break that barrier as both these movies were critically lauded.
Oppenheimer cost around $100 million. While this is hardly a low budget, it is far lower than Interstellar and Inception’s price tags, which came to $165 million and $160 million respectively. Since Oppenheimer cost less than Nolan’s earlier blockbusters and boasted such an unwieldy subject as its focus, it would have been reasonable to expect the movie to underperform in comparison.
How Much More Oppenheimer Needs For $1 Billion & What Its Chances Are Having already brought in a staggering $912 million, Oppenheimer needs to make just under $88 million to hit $1 billion. According to Variety, Nolan’s biopic made $12.8m on the third weekend in September. As such, Oppenheimer needs to perform at a similar level for another seven weeks to hit $1 billion, or somehow start earning more money after its eighth week in theaters.
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