Clint Eastwood’s 9 Year Old Record is In Danger as Cillian Murphy’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Races Past $400 Million Box Office Collection in 2 Weeks
Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer is making waves across the world after its theatrical release in July. The movie is based on the life of the celebrated theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who went on to change the history, geography, and geopolitics of the world. The highly esteemed project of Christopher has already become a critical and commercial success around the world.
The R-rated sci-fi drama is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer authored by the writer duo Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird.
Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer Comes Closer To Beating Clint Eastwood’s Record
Christopher Nolan’s R-rated biographical saga has led to full theatres after a long time. According to the stats, theatres around the world are house full post-pandemic after the theatrical release of Barbie and Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer. The massive financial success of Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus project is not only scaling at the box office but also breaking records created by legendary directors. Oppenheimer is coming close to breaking the record of Clint Eastwood’s R-rated biographical drama American Sniper.
Bradley Cooper’s war drama was based on the life of a sniper who had been deployed in the Iraq war area after the 9/11 twin towers incident. The movie comes under the list of one of the most successful movies by Clint Eastwood. With six Academy Award nominations and a critically acclaimed movie grossed a revenue of around $550 million.
A still from Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper
With only just a week into the release of Oppenheimer, the movie has already secured a collection of $400 million and it is expected to become one of the major blockbusters of 2023. Oppenheimer has closely inched towards breaking the revenue records of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of The Wall Street. The Leonardo DiCaprio starrer movie became the second highest-grossing R-rated biopic, based on the life of a popular stockbroker Jordan Belfort. It has been expected that the sci-fi biographical drama based on the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer would bag multiple nominations and awards.
Oppenheimer Star Cillian Murphy On His Decade Long Bond With Christopher Nolan
The bond between the Oppenheimer director and actor duo needs no description in Hollywood. Christopher Nolan’s admiration for one of his favorite actors is very well highlighted in the cameos performed by Cillian Murphy. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Dunkirk star spoke about his relationship with the legendary director. He said-
“I’d always show up for Chris, even if it was walking in the background of his next movie holding a surfboard Though… not sure what kind of Chris Nolan movie that would be. But I always hoped I could play a lead in a Chris Nolan movie. What actor wouldn’t want to do that?”
While talking about his first mainstream role and watching himself play the main protagonist in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy said-
“I am, yeah. I don’t like watching myself – it’s like, ‘Oh, fucking hell’ – but it’s an extraordinary piece of work. Very provocative and powerful. It feels sometimes like a biopic, sometimes like a thriller, sometimes like a horror. It’s going to knock people out. What [Nolan] does with film, it fucks you up a little bit.”
Source: The Digital Fix
