'Oppenheimer' continues to explode at the box office. It's Christopher Nolan's third-highest grossing domestic release ever.
Universal is banking on the longevity of "Oppenheimer" at the box office, as it does not plan to make the movie available on streaming until February, which falls in what's usually the thick of Oscar campaign season. The film itself, Nolan, and stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. are considered early favorites for next year's Academy Awards.
The film's success also comes at a time when major superhero movies and franchise sequels have underperformed. Meanwhile, original storytelling has thrived, with Warner Bros.' funky and metafictional "Barbie" and Angel Studio's conservative-friendlyNolan himself has parlayed his success with Batman movies into the kind of big budget trust from studios to ambitious, twisty movies on a large scale, like "Dunkirk" and "Interstellar.
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