Oppenheimer has achieved a massive box office feat for a biographical movie. The Christopher Nolan movie stars Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leading a massive ensemble cast that also includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh. The movie opened opposite Greta Gerwig’s Barbie on July 21, forming one half of the box office juggernaut known by the portmanteau “Barbenheimer.”
Per Collider, the Oppenheimer box office has surpassed the $910.8 million gross of Bohemian Rhapsody this weekend. This feat makes it the highest-grossing biographical movie of all time. Other titles it has surpassed in its rise to the top include 2014’s American Sniper ($547.4 million) and the 2017 musical The Greatest Showman ($435.7 million).
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