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Christopher Nolan Says ‘Oppenheimer’ Making Almost $1 Billion Points to a ‘Post-Franchise, Post-IP Landscape’: ‘It’s Kind of Encouraging’
Christopher Nolan is celebrating the box office for "Oppenheimer," which has earned over $950 million worldwide.
Christopher Nolan recently appeared on the “Countdown to the BAFTAs” podcast and reflected on the record-breaking box office success of “ Oppenheimer,” which has earned $958 million worldwide to become the highest-grossing biographical drama in film history. Those box office numbers are more or less unheard of for an incredibly dense, three-hour, R-rated historical drama that barely features any action scenes. But even with franchises being a necessary element to Hollywood, Nolan stressed to Empire magazine that “the audience’s desire to be surprised, to see something new, to see something they did not know they wanted, that’s always been the most powerful force in theatrical film.”
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