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How Christopher Nolan bounced back from Tenet to make £750 million at the box office with Oppenheimer, writes ALISON BOSHOFF
As director Christopher Nolan prepares to take the Best Picture and Best Director statuettes for his movie, has it also been the most financially successful project of all?
He demanded a production budget of about $100 million and an equal marketing spend; total creative control; 20 per cent of first-dollar gross; and a blackout period, meaning the company would not release another movie three weeks before or after his film. Lily Gladstone — hoping for an Oscar for her portrayal of Mollie Burkhart in Killers Of The Flower Moon — put director Martin Scorsese in mind of golden age screen icon Olivia de Havilland. Research shows that the under-35 audience will just watch highlights like this on TikTok and YouTube, rather than bothering to sit down for the broadcast — 54 per cent of them plan to follow the Academy Awards on social media, which is one way of skipping the boring bits.
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