Christopher Nolan's WWII drama, which starred Cillian Murphy, is now the fourth-biggest movie of 2023 so far.
The Big Picture Like most films directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is registering minimal week-to-week drops in revenue as it completes over a month-and-a-half in theaters across the globe. The three-hour epic passed the $300 million mark at the domestic box office this weekend, having recently overtaken Inception to become Nolan’s third-biggest domestic hit of all time.
In addition to the $300 million that the movie has made in domestic theaters, Oppenheimer has grossed $477 million from overseas markets, which takes its running worldwide haul to $777 million. Not only is this among the best performances by any movie this year, the achievement is all the more special because Oppenheimer is certainly not the kind of film that you’d expect to play like this.
While the filmmaker has mostly played around in the sandbox of genre cinema, Oppenheimer is only his second historical drama, following 2017’s Dunkirk. It’s also his first R-rated release in over 20 years, and easily his most dialogue-heavy and mature film yet.
Oppenheimer Has Performed Like Superhero Movies Used To In a year when major superhero tent poles such as The Flash and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania have underperformed, despite having a combined reported budget of around $500 million, the $100 million Oppenheimer is playing like a four-quadrant hit. It’s currently the four-biggest release of 2023, behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 , and is now also the fourth-biggest R-rated movie in history, ahead of The Matrix Reloaded .
Based on the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film also stars Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and Florence Pugh in supporting roles. Oppenheimer is also an awards season favorite, and it’ll be interesting to see if it finally wins Nolan that elusive Best Director Academy Award. You can watch our interview with the filmmaker here, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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