Oppenheimer’s dazzling opening weekend domestic box office gross outdoes all of Christopher Nolan’s non-Batman movies, including Inception.
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Summary
- Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s latest film, had an impressive opening weekend, grossing $80.5 million domestically.
- The star-studded ensemble cast and the storyline revolving around physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb have attracted audiences.
- This is Nolan’s highest-grossing opening weekend for a film outside of the Dark Knight trilogy, surpassing the earnings of Interstellar and Inception.
Oppenheimer has scored a huge opening weekend for director Christopher Nolan. The movie, which is his first since his 2020 science fiction epic Tenet, opened in theaters on July 21. Boasting a huge ensemble cast that includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Gary Oldman, and many more, it follows the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) and the creation of the atomic bomb.
Per Variety, the Oppenheimer box office has raked in a dazzling opening weekend domestic gross of $80.5 million. While this still led the movie to open at No. 2 behind the smash hit Barbie, it is the best opening weekend for a Christoper Nolan movie outside of his Dark Knight trilogy. It beat the opening weekends of his previous hits Interstellar ($47.5 million) and Inception ($62.7 million) by a considerable margin.
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Source: Variety
