Tag: Tenet
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Pixar’s Elemental Is Now The Biggest Original Hollywood Movie Since The Pandemic
Even though things didn’t start out on the best foot, Pixar’s “Elemental” has had a downright astonishing run at the box office since it opened last month and, in its seventh weekend, managed to cross a pretty impressive milestone. Amazingly enough, it now ranks as the highest-grossing original Hollywood film released in theaters since the…
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Christopher Nolan Certainly Seems Up For Directing A Bond Movie
After confusing the hell out of everyone with “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan has returned with “Oppenheimer,” a biopic wrapped in a thriller that’s looking like it will be one of the best movies of the year. That’s good news as it proves the famed director hasn’t become entirely submerged in his own proclivity for philosophical exploration…
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How ‘Oppenheimer’ Pulled Off an Atomic Bomb Explosion Without CGI: A Giant Aquarium, Balloons and More
In 2020’s “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan blew up a 747, and for his latest feature, “Oppenheimer,” he recreated the Trinity Test without using visual effects, opting to find a way to do it in-camera instead.“Obviously, we couldn’t make an explosion the size of the actual explosion so we used trickery,” cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema explains, and…
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Oppenheimer Ending Explained: Did We Destroy The World?
Is “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan’s best, most ambitious film yet? That might sound hard to believe from the director who delivered a movie with a complicated series of timelines in “Memento,” an entire “Batman” trilogy, the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream meticulousness of “Inception,” more timeline shenanigans with “Dunkirk,” and, oh yeah, that feature-length excuse to film things in reverse known…
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Christopher Nolan’s Unmade Films: Movies the ‘Oppenheimer’ Director Almost Made
There are some directors who have an army of orphaned projects; films that, for whatever reason, never ended up getting shot or released. Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and (especially) Luca Guadagnino have whole filmographies of projects they started developing before eventually abandoning.Christopher Nolan is not one of those directors. Generally speaking,…
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‘Oppenheimer’ Composer Ludwig Göransson Recorded the Explosive Score in Five Days
“Oppenheimer” composer Ludwig Göransson guesstimates there’s “about two and a half hours of music in the film,” which he recorded over the course of five days.The film marks his second collaboration with Christopher Nolan, after the pair first teamed up on 2020’s “Tenet.” Göransson describes the “Oppenheimer” score as “dynamic.”“Sometimes, it’s just the use of…