After its summer success, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is returning to IMAX screens for a special one week engagement in theatres worldwide starting this Friday, November 3.
The film told the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, as the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II. He is often cited as the father of the atomic age for his discovery and Nolan’s film examines how he achieved it as well as the personal and political fallout Oppenheimer faced from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oppenheimer will be re-released worldwide including on six IMAX 70mm film projectors in AMC theatres located in California, New York City, London and Melbourne. This is in keeping with Nolan’s preference to shoot on film over digital and his love of IMAX, a format he has shot each of his films on since The Dark Knight in 2008.
Oppenheimer‘s return to screen doesn’t come as much of a surprise given its current worldwide total of $946.9 million at the box office. The re-release could potentially put it over $1 billion by the end of its week, but more than that is the fact so many films have been delayed due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Dune: Part Two, for instance, was originally set for a release of November 20th and was meant to take up IMAX screens for several weeks, but Warner Bros. pushed it back to March 15, 2024 since the cast will not be able to promote the film per strike rules. With it and so many other films having vacated the fall schedule in the past few weeks, it only made sense for Universal and IMAX to bring back one of the year’s most successful and popular films.
Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER, thrusts audiences into the mind of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work as the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory created the first atomic bomb.
Starring alongside Cillian Murphy’s titular scientist are Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Casey Affleck, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy, Michael Angarano, Guy Burnet, Danny Deferrari, Matthias Schweighöfer, Gary Oldman, Harrison Gilbertson, Emma Dumont, Devon Bostick, Trond Fausa, Christopher Denham and Josh Zuckerman
Oppenheimer will be re-released on IMAX screens for one week beginning November 3. It will be released on 4K UHD and Blu-ray November 21.
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