The Golden Globe Awards got a new look this year. Gone is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a weird cabal of foreign journalists who love nothing more than accepting gifts and hobnobbing/taking selfies with talent. That shadowy outfit disbanded last year in the wake of scandal. Now, the Golden Globes …
Read More »Margot Robbie Tells Cillian Murphy an 'Oppenheimer' Producer Asked Her to Move 'Barbie' Release
The Barbenheimer phenomenon was one of the defining cultural moments of 2023. For Variety‘s Actors on Actors special, Barbie‘s Margot Robbie and Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy sat down for a chat to discuss their two films and how movie-watchers set up double features to see the films back-to-back. “People kept asking …
Read More »'Oppenheimer': Cillian Murphy Put His Life on the Line in This Scene
One of the year’s biggest hits — and a surefire Oscar contender — is Oppenheimer, filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s three-hour epic, captured on sprawling 65 mm, about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s stewardship of the Manhattan Project that created the world’s first atomic bomb, his anxiety over unleashing such a destructive …
Read More »'Oppenheimer' Becomes Biggest Biopic of All Time
Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimerhas overtakenBohemian Rhapsodyas the highest ever grossing biopic. The film starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb, Robert J. Oppenheimer, has now grossed $912.7 million across the globe, taking it pastQueen biopicBohemian Rhapsody’s $910.8 million. Oppenheimerhas already broken box office records this summer. It is Universal …
Read More »Ben Shelton at the U.S. Open Proves Barbenheimer Isn't Dead… Yet
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Who is Ben Shelton? At only 20 years old, the Georgia born tennis pro has become the one to watch at the last U.S. Open, 2023 proving so …
Read More »'Barbie' Is Headed to IMAX With New Post-Credits Footage
Hi, new Barbie footage. Greta Gerwig‘s blockbuster hit is heading to IMAX for a limited one-week engagement beginning on Sept. 22 and the release will include bonus scenes after the credits. “We made Barbie for the big screen, so it’s a thrill to be able to bring it to IMAX, …
Read More »Why Can't We Stop Talking About the Anti-Porn 'Oppenheimer' Lady?
“Any advice for my husband and I wanting to watch Oppenheimer but being fully afraid of the Florence Pugh scene everyone is talking about?” Last weekend, creator Jourdan K. posted a TikTok about going to see the film Oppenheimer with her husband, answering the above question from a follower. She …
Read More »The Teenage Atomic Spy That 'Oppenheimer' Left Out
In Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a fair amount is made of Klaus Fuchs, the German theoretical physicist who passed secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviet Union. But nowhere in this substantive blockbuster do we hear about Theodore Hall. A wunderkind physicist from Far Rockaway, New York City, recruited to the …
Read More »Warner Bros. Apologizes For 'Insensitive' Barbenheimer Memes After Criticism From Japanese Studio Sector
The cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer, the double-viewing fiasco of Warner Bros.‘ Barbie and Universal’s Oppenheimer, has lined the pockets of both studios while movie-goers dress up to head to their theaters and make the ultimate commitment to the bit. Many brands have also played into the popular social marketing, but …
Read More »Right-Wing Cranks Try to Get in on the Barbenheimer Fun
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is surfing into cinematic history on a wave of right-wing tears — and a boatload of cash. The blockbuster film, which grossed a record-breaking $155 million domestically (and $377 million internationally) in its first weekend has also shattered the psyches of conservative commentators who have reflexively branded …
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