$565 million: Oppenheimer broke the all-time box office record

Oppenheimer, the 3-hour biopic based on the father of the nuclear bomb, atomized the box office this summer! In France, Christopher Nolan’s film attracted almost 3 million viewers. Internationally, the work collected 565 million dollars.

With this score, Oppenheimer became the highest-grossing World War II feature film in history. It surpasses another Christopher Nolan landmark, Dunkirk, which brought in $527 million.

On the 3rd step of the podium, we meet Private Ryan. Steven Spielberg’s epic classic grossed $482 million worldwide. Therefore, Oppenheimer enters the history of cinema with an unexpected commercial triumph for a 3-hour film, including long dialogue sequences.

If it cashes in a lot of dollars, Oppenheimer is also recognized by critics and the public. Major filmmakers have especially praised Nolan’s film, such as Paul Schrader, who called it a “The best movie of the century”. For his part, Oliver Stone, the director of Platoon or JFK, spoke of a “classic” that he believes is impossible to achieve in the current climate.

With Barbie having just hit a billion dollars internationally, Oppenheimer is a summer blockbuster starring Cillian Murphy!

Let us remind you that the story takes us to 1942. Convinced that Nazi Germany is developing nuclear weapons, the United States secretly launches the Manhattan Project, which aims to create the first atomic bomb in history.

As a pilot of this device, the government hired J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who would soon be called the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” It is in the ultra-secret laboratory of Los Alamos, in the heart of the New Mexico desert, that a scientist and his team develop a revolutionary weapon whose dizzying consequences still weigh on the world today.