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The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold? Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly […]

Interstellar crosses half a billion at the global box office

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Despite being the first Christopher Nolan film since 2002’s Insomnia not to take top spot at the box office in the States, the sci-fi epic Interstellar is enjoying a solid run around the world, with the filming crossing the half billion barrier this past weekend. Having grossed $147.1 million domestically and $395.2 million from international […]

Read Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar prequel comic Absolute Zero

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Thanks to Wired, a seven-page prequel comic to Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar has arrived online for our reading pleasure. Entitled ‘Absolute Zero’, the the “lost chapter” has been written by Nolan with art from Sean Gordon Murphy and explore’s Dr. Mann’s earlier Lazarus mission to find a hospitable planet for humanity… Read the full comic […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gets a first teaser trailer

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Universal Pictures has released a first teaser trailer for Oppenheimer, the hotly-anticipated new film from director Christopher Nolan and starring his frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy in the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist credited as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ for his work on the Manhattan Project, the Allied development of nuclear weapons […]

Feast your eyes on the poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Following endless casting announcements for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the film’s official Twitter account was christened today with the first poster for his J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic, which is due to land on July 21st 2023. Check it out in all its explosive glory below…. Nolan’s first film with Universal Pictures, Oppenheimer stars (take a deep […]

Christian Bale reveals he’d return to Batman if Christopher Nolan had another story to tell

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Christian Bale has revealed that he would return to the role of Bruce Wayne and Batman, but only if it was Christopher Nolan who was switching on the Bat Signal.  As he prepares to make his debut in the MCU playing the Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder, Bale has been speaking […]

Olivia Thirlby joins Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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At this point, it’s becoming easier to list the actors that aren’t involved with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, but despite the fact that cameras have already been rolling for a couple of months the fan-favourite filmmaker continues to expand the high profile cast of his J. Robert Oppenheimer movie. The latest addition to the cast is […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer adds Alex Wolff

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With production currently taking place in New Mexico, director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Oppenheimer has added yet another name to its ensemble cast as Alex Wolff (Old, Hereditary) has signed on to star in the biopic. Although Wolff’s role in the film is yet to be revealed, he will star in a stacked cast that includes longtime […]

Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon featured in set photos from Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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While Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is still going about casting everyone in the industry, the project has also begun production on some of the film’s most important scenes as we now have our first look at Cillian Murphy on set as J. Robert Oppenheimer. In these photos, from Twitter user @FilmOppenheimer, we see the Peaky Blinders […]

Vikings actor Gustaf Skarsgård joins Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Not long after Matthias Schweighöfer was announced to be joining the cast of director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer, it has been reported that Vikings and Westworld actor Gustaf Skarsgård has landed a role in the film. Skarsgard will play Hans Bethe, a German-American nuclear physicist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics and was tasked […]