The film business is doing very well, according to Christopher Nolan
The director takes his latest film, Oppenheimer, as an example: “It’s literally the most profitable of my career!”
In an interview with the magazine Empiredirector Christopher Nolan returns to the summer phenomenon of his latest film. Oppenheimer grossed almost $1 billion at the worldwide box office (951 million to be precise) and became one of the biggest successes of his career. Alone The Dark Knight Rises crossed this symbolic milestone in 2012, but it was the continuation of a very popular saga. The Dark Knight stopped at 998 million greenbacks four years earlier.
In terms of profitability, his biopic of the father of the atomic bomb did better than his Batman, since it cost around 100 million dollars without its promotion, half as much as them. In particular, he hardback in IMAX in the United States, taking advantage of the higher prices for this type of broadcast for an entire month. “I’ve been doing this for 20 years and it’s my highest grossing film in the UK.” he told the British magazine, delighted. In France, the film has had more than 4 million admissions.
Released during the summer, causing the tsunami Barbenheimer along with the film of Greta Gerwigthis biopic carried by Cillian Murphy would be for Nolan an indicator of the good health of international cinema.
“I made a three-hour film, about Robert Oppenheimer, forbidden to minors unaccompanied by an adult, half of which is in black and white – and it made a billion dollars. Of course I think that the films are doing well“, he analyzes. Even if it is based on his own experience, it is no less true that the summer of 2023 was particularly good for the industry.
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Competing with sequels and franchises like Indiana Jones 5 Or Mission Impossible 7, Oppenheimer had the advantage of being a blockbuster unpublished. Let us remember, however, that it benefited from an extraordinary casting (Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr.., Matt Damon) and especially the name of Chris Nolan as a guarantee of quality.
Another particularity of the film: at a time when DVD and Blu-ray are selling poorly, Oppenheimer was a hit in physical format, its HD/4K editions being quickly sold out.
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