The film follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, the scientist who famously led the Manhattan Project - the effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II. In February 2022, Murphy spoke with Esquire U.K. about the film and revealed what very little he could.

“The sharpness and the clarity and the depth of the image is unparalleled. The headline, for me, is by shooting on (IMAX film), you're really letting the screen disappear. You're getting a feeling of 3D without the glasses. You've got a huge screen and you're filling the peripheral vision of the audience.

Universal also became well known for its horror films of the early 1930s. These productions included such classics as Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein. In 1936, Carl Laemmle retired from the movie industry and sold Universal to the Standard Capital Company.

The strong contrast between Barbie - a fantasy comedy by Greta Gerwig about the fashion doll Barbie - and Oppenheimer - an epic biographical thriller by Christopher Nolan about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project - prompted a comedic response from Internet users, including memes and ...

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), cast Cillian Murphy in the title role of a film that explored Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb and the events that led to the 1954 security hearing.

Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - currently no. 1 on Amazon's bestseller chart, thanks to the film - the movie jumps back and forth through time as it explores the life and legacy of its subject.

Sequences of "Oppenheimer" were shot with an IMAX camera so some scenes will be able to expand to fit the wider IMAX screen, according to the movie theater company. Nolan employed a similar tactic of shooting some scenes in IMAX and others in a different format with his previous film "The Dark Knight."

Oppenheimer recently surpassed the $900 million mark at the box office and is currently sitting behind Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the third highest-grossing movie of 2023. Both Villeneuve and Anderson's comments highlight how Oppenheimer has been able to become such a big office success.

With today's business included, Universal Pictures is crossing the $3B mark at the global box office for 2022 so far, becoming the first studio to reach the milestone since 2019. The grosses broken out to date are $1.74B at the international box office and $1.281B domestically.

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' “Barbie” would be released in theaters the same day as Universal Pictures' “Oppenheimer.” Twitter instantly latched onto the dichotomy of the two films, cracking jokes about the light and dark nature of the respective movies, and their tongue-in-cheek battle for the soul of America.

While the two films have been commercially successful beyond initial expectations, it's their combined resonance with the public through the themes and messages explored in both films and the general critical approval - roughly an 8/10 for “Barbie” and a 9/10 for “Oppenheimer” - that has been the biggest blessing.

As Oppenheimer recalled in a 1965 NBC News documentary called The Decision to Drop the Bomb, he thought of Hindu scripture while watching the first-ever atomic bomb explode during the Trinity Test: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer No one person can be credited with producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in that effort: physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves.

Based on the life of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the eponymous film explores his invention of the atomic bomb – and the implications of creating such a deadly weapon.

Nolan is well known for his innovative use of sound, so I should have been aware going in that the movie would be loud - in the general decibel level of 74-104.