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Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas In for UK Honor
UK to Honor
Oppenheimer
Filmmakers
Mar 28, 2024 4:30 PM CDT

UK to Honor Oppenheimer Filmmakers

For their service to film, couple will receive a knighthood and a damehood

(Newser) - The Academy Awards that Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas collected this month were for their work on Oppenheimer, but the filmmakers are to receive a more sweeping honor from the nation of their birth. The UK plans to bestow a knighthood on Nolan and a damehood on Thomas, the BBC...

Robert Downey Jr. Wins His First Oscar

Plus more from the Academy Awards

(Newser) - Oppenheimer, the solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan, the AP reports. After passing over arguably Hollywood's foremost big-screen auteur for years, the Oscars made up for lost time...

Oppenheimer Continues Its Roll
Oppenheimer Continues Its Roll
Feb 25, 2024 6:42 AM CST

Oppenheimer Continues Its Roll

Christopher Nolan's biopic wins big at SAG Awards, heads into Oscars with more steam

(Newser) - Oppenheimer continued to steamroll through Hollywood's awards season on Saturday, winning the top prize, for outstanding cast, along with awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards. As the Academy Awards draw closer, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic—already a winner at...

Biggest Oscar Snubs of the Year
Biggest Oscar
Snubs of the Year
Jan 23, 2024 12:00 PM CST

Biggest Oscar Snubs of the Year

'Barbie' director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie are shut out

(Newser) - It's that time of year when actors and moviemakers huddle around screens for the reading of the Oscar nominations , shedding tears of joy and disappointment. For those who worked on Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which nabbed the most nominations for the 96th Academy Awards at 13, it was surely...

Oppenheimer Viewer Spots Historical Error
Oppenheimer Viewer
Spots Historical Error
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 29, 2023 3:15 PM CDT

Oppenheimer Viewer Spots Historical Error

It involves the American flag; another controversy brews over scene featuring Hindu scripture

(Newser) - It's a fleeting moment in a three-hour-long movie . But it's a scene that will have Oppenheimer's historical consultants cringing along with the armchair historians who pointed it out. As CNN reports, viewers of the film depicting J. Robert Oppenheimer's life have spotted an error in a...

What Critics Are Saying About Oppenheimer
What Critics Are Saying
About Oppenheimer
MOVIE REVIEW
Jul 21, 2023 10:40 AM CDT

What Critics Are Saying About Oppenheimer

It's 'a new film classic,' with standout performances from a few

(Newser) - You may know of J. Robert Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But that's only one part of the theoretical physicist's story, told in an epic way in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer , out Friday. Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman's 2005 biography American ...

Zoe Kravitz: I Was Rejected as Too 'Urban'

Current Catwoman says a previous Batman movie wasn't as welcoming

(Newser) - Zoe Kravitz may be the new Catwoman , but nabbing that dream movie role was a lengthy process—one that involved a rejection based on the color of her skin, the biracial actor-musician tells the Observer . A decade before her debut as Selina Kyle in Matt Reeves' The Batman, which topped...

Big Hollywood Name Unloads on Warner Bros. Strategy

Director Christopher Nolan blasts idea to stream movies immediately on HBO Max

(Newser) - Warner Bros. stunned the film industry last week with the announcement that it would stream its 2021 movies on HBO Max at the same time they are released to theaters. Now, one of Hollywood's biggest directors is joining the criticism . Christopher Nolan, behind films such as Dunkirk, Inception, and...

Nearly All of AMC's Theaters Will Be Open by Mid-July
Big News for Movie Lovers
Jun 10, 2020 12:15 AM CDT

Big News for Movie Lovers

Most theaters expected to reopen by mid-July, including up to 98% of AMC theaters

(Newser) - After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen—even if it means only a few titles on the marquee and showings limited to as little as 25% capacity. AMC Theaters, the world's largest theater operator, said Tuesday that it expects to...

A Big Test for Hollywood, and America, Comes in July
A Big Test for Hollywood,
and America, Comes in July
the rundown
May 15, 2020 8:29 AM CDT

A Big Test for Hollywood, and America, Comes in July

New Christopher Nolan film, Tenet, is scheduled for release in theaters

(Newser) - Director Christopher Nolan has a new movie scheduled to come out in theaters on July 17. In normal times, that in itself would be big news in the entertainment world. In these weird pandemic times, that is even bigger news, and not just in the world of entertainment. Coverage:
  • Much
...

We Still Don't Know Why Germany 'Blew It' at Dunkirk
France Is Not Happy
With Nolan's Dunkirk
the rundown
Jul 26, 2017 8:19 AM CDT

France Is Not Happy With Nolan's Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan's film prompts a new look at epic WWII evacuation

(Newser) - The hot movie of the moment is Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk , which retells the story of the evacuation of allied troops from the French city of that name during World War II. But this was an epic evacuation, with more than 333,000 mostly British and French soldiers rescued from...

Dunkirk Tops Box Office With $50.5M Opening

Comedy 'Girls Trip' also defied expectations this weekend

(Newser) - It's victory for Dunkirk at the box office this weekend. Studios on Sunday say the Christopher Nolan World War II epic earned an estimated $50.5 million to top the charts, with $11.7 million of that coming from IMAX screens (and it's already a darling among critics)....

Nolan's Dunkirk May Be His Masterpiece
Almost
Everybody
Loves Dunkirk
movie review
Jul 21, 2017 8:56 AM CDT

Almost Everybody Loves Dunkirk

It might be Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, writes one critic

(Newser) - Dunkirk looks like a winner. The World War II movie about the evacuation of Allied troops from the city in France boasts a 92% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes , along with a 90% score from audiences. Director Christopher Nolan in particular is winning praise for the film, whose...

Critics Split on Nolan's Interstellar
 Critics Split on 
 Nolan's Interstellar 
MOVIE REVIEW
Nov 7, 2014 1:04 PM CST

Critics Split on Nolan's Interstellar

Matthew McConaughey's latest is both 'remarkable' and a 'disaster'

(Newser) - Should we save Earth, or leave it? That's the question at the heart of Interstellar, which sees Matthew McConaughey suit up as an astronaut hoping to find other planets capable of hosting human life. Make sure to use the bathroom on your way in: This flick is a long...

7 Most Overrated Movies Ever

James Bond, Inception among them

(Newser) - Looking for something to watch this weekend? You've probably heard great things about the following films, but don't believe the hype, Tim Robey writes in the Telegraph . He lists the 10 most overrated films:
  1. Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes, is hardly the thriller it was made out to
...

Man of Steel Not Quite Super
 Man of Steel Not Quite Super 
movie review
Jun 14, 2013 4:55 AM CDT

Man of Steel Not Quite Super

Zack Snyder directs Superman reboot

(Newser) - Man of Steel brings us the origin of Superman, with a little help from producer Christopher Nolan. While the heavy-handed movie has its moments, critics aren't quite convinced:
  • "The chief problem here is one of rhythm and balance in the storytelling and directing. The movie swings between destructive
...

Joseph Gordon- Levitt the Next Batman: Report

Will play caped crusader in Justice League , say insiders

(Newser) - Christopher Nolan may not be directing any more Batman films, but Warner Bros. isn't done with the character—and Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks set to take over where Christian Bale left off. The Dark Knight Rises' end seemed to indicate that the franchise would live on, and sure enough, the...

The Changing Face of Fear
 The Changing 
 Face of Fear 
OPINION
Jul 22, 2012 9:13 AM CDT

The Changing Face of Fear

Today's evil doesn't kill for a cause, but for destruction itself

(Newser) - America's great enemies of the past—Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or Mao's China—were evil, but at least they were evil with a point (however twisted). But these days, evil has changed, and from Timothy McVeigh to 9/11, the anthrax killer, and now James Holmes, the "world-burners,...

Dark Knight Suspect Planned Attack: Officials

Director Christopher Nolan calls carnage 'devastating'

(Newser) - James Holmes appears to have planned his assault on Dark Knight fans for some time. Law enforcement officials say he began buying weapons from gun stores around Aurora, Colorado, two months ago, and came to the Dark Knight Rises premiere fully stocked—with a Smith & Wesson AR-15 assault-style rifle,...

Batman Director Defends Fans Upset at Reviews

Christopher Nolan also thinks Limbaugh's theory is 'peculiar'

(Newser) - Christopher Nolan is defending fans irate over negative reviews of The Dark Knight Rises. The director says fans are very passionate about the characters. He noted that Batman has been around more than 70 years, so people are attached to the character. While the final piece of Nolan's Dark ...

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