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Cillian Murphy is Oppenheimer on poster for Christopher Nolan’s new film

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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s biographical thriller Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy as Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Oppenheimer “The IMAX-shot epic thriller thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in […]

Steven Spielberg says The Dark Knight should have received a Best Picture nomination

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If we remembered the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, we’d recall the push to see The Dark Knight take home some major awards. While the film was nominated for various awards, it was left out of the conversation for Best Picture come Oscar night. One of the Oscar’s most beloved filmmakers, Steven Spielberg, is saying […]

The Good and Bad of Indulged Filmmakers

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Some filmmakers get full autonomy. Sometimes this is good. Sometimes, not so much… When you hit a level of success in filmmaking as a director (or occasionally a producing star actor) you find that studios increasingly bend over backwards to your every whim. This can even be to the point of risky ventures with huge […]

Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer makes its way online

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After appearing in front of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water in most theatres this weekend, the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has now been released online. Watch it below… “The IMAX-shot epic thriller thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.” Featuring alongside Cillian […]

New poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy

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Coming in hot – white hot, in fact – on the heels of yesterday’s promotional images, we now have a new poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer as he observes first hand the terrifying achievement of the Manhattan Project with ‘Trinity’, the world’s first ever nuclear explosion.  SEE ALSO: […]

Of course, Christopher Nolan recreated an atomic bomb detonation with practical effects for Oppenheimer

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Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker who loves the art of filmmaking. He’ll go to no end to make his art form the truest it can be, like creating the first nuclear weapon detonation with no computer graphics, for example. The Oppenheimer director opened up about his upcoming film, which follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, a key […]

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. featured in new Oppenheimer images

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Universal Pictures has offered fans a sneak peek at Christopher Nolan’s hotly-anticipated next film Oppenheimer with the release of several new images from the biographical thriller featuring stars Cillian Murphy as Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as his wife Kitty Oppenheimer, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, chairman of the US Atomic […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gets a first teaser trailer

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Universal Pictures has released a first teaser trailer for Oppenheimer, the hotly-anticipated new film from director Christopher Nolan and starring his frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy in the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist credited as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ for his work on the Manhattan Project, the Allied development of nuclear weapons […]

Feast your eyes on the poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Following endless casting announcements for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the film’s official Twitter account was christened today with the first poster for his J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic, which is due to land on July 21st 2023. Check it out in all its explosive glory below…. Nolan’s first film with Universal Pictures, Oppenheimer stars (take a deep […]

Christian Bale reveals he’d return to Batman if Christopher Nolan had another story to tell

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Christian Bale has revealed that he would return to the role of Bruce Wayne and Batman, but only if it was Christopher Nolan who was switching on the Bat Signal.  As he prepares to make his debut in the MCU playing the Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder, Bale has been speaking […]