Movie Reviews and Previews Christohper Nolan is bullying David Zaslav Speaking of Warner Bros. Discovery and their spiky relationships with filmmakers, over the last year, I’ve been keeping an eye on Christopher Nolan’s next film, chiefly because even after Universal met every one of his demands to release Oppenheimer—including releasing the film in his favored late July By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 01:35 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Intro for January 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sundance has begun! Yesterday were the first premieres and the opening night gala of the Sundance Film Festival, which brought out a lot of stars. Kristen Stewart was there, as she received the Visionary Award, as was Christopher Nolan, who received the inaugural Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award. Nolan By Sarah • Jan 19, 2024 09:38 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, In the ongoing “state of cinema” conversation, which has mostly been reduced to Marvel nerds yelling at Martin Scorsese for not liking cape sh-t, Christopher Nolan has entered the chat with a very measured response and sensible perspective. What! Someone being sensible about a topic we love yelling By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian Murphy and half of Hollywood in Oppenheimer Films about Great Men are usually acts of hagiography, and in many ways, Oppenheimer is no different. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, is invested in Oppenheimer as a once-in-a-generation genius, a Great Man who literally moved the earth, but Nolan is By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer in Paris As we’ve mentioned a few times now in today’s posts, the deadline for the producers and the actors to reach a new deal is tonight. And if that doesn’t happen, the actors have already decided to join the writers on strike. Sarah just wrote in the previous By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise vs. Christopher Nolan Ever since the trailers for Barbie and Oppenheimer started dropping, people have been trying to make a narrative of Barbie vs. the nuclear bomb since both movies have the same release date of July 21, but it turns out the REAL fight is between Tom Cruise and Christopher Nolan. According By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer will test Christopher Nolan’s appeal We are one month away from the fall festivals throwing us headlong into awards season 2022, but one movie is already planting its flag for 2023: Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s historical drama about the inventor of the atom bomb. The teaser was released online (after playing exclusively in theaters in By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, Tenet Tenet has finally arrived for on demand home viewing, which means it is finally time to review Tenet! Or maybe I have already reviewed Tenet! Maybe my review of Tenet has drifted back from the future, to materialize at just the right moment—now!—and I can close the loop By Sarah • Dec 18, 2020 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet is dateless Yesterday, the inevitable happened and after a month of hop-scotching release dates, Tenet was pulled from Warner Brothers’ release calendar entirely. They’re still committed to a 2020 release date, with studio chief Toby Emmerich issuing a statement that they will “share a new 2020 release date imminently”, but c’ By Sarah • Jul 21, 2020 09:32 am
Christopher Nolan Don’t sit around Christopher Nolan Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman interviewed each other for Variety’s Actors on Actors series and during their conversation, Anne shares a detail about working with Christopher Nolan that some people are making fun of online. Christopher Nolan, of course, is a Brand Name Director. His latest film, Tenet, was By Lainey • Jun 30, 2020 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet blinked Since the coronavirus lockdown began in the spring, the hopes of the film industry “returning to normal” hung on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, due to be released on July 17. Warner Brothers and the industry at large so believed in Tenet’s power to lure audiences back to enclosed spaces By Sarah • Jun 15, 2020 11:22 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, What is the future of movie theatres? Bilge Ebiri attempted to answer the question at Vulture yesterday as restrictions begin to lift across North America and authorities are making plans to reopen the economy. Some people think that after all these weeks of being at home and watching By Lainey • May 27, 2020 08:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet reveals itself as its release date becomes questionable A new trailer for Tenet dropped last night, released first inside Fortnite, because when I think “Christopher Nolan”, I totally think “e-sports”. Lainey pointed out that there is probably some overlap between Nolan, Batman fans, and online gaming, and dropping a trailer in Fortnite is a way to engage that By Sarah • May 22, 2020 10:59 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Tenet and its status now as the “Last Blockbuster Standing” because, at the time, Warner Bros had yet to push back its release date, July 17, 2020. Tenet’s director, Christopher Nolan, is one of the leading crusaders for the By Lainey • May 08, 2020 08:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is Tenet? Christopher Nolan is one of the last big-name directors who can get butts in seats based on his name alone. He doesn’t have to tell us what his movies are about or even, really, who is in them (although he attracts star-studded casts, so Nolan casting announcements are always By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 09:48 am
Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk The opening scene from Saving Private Ryan is the gold standard of cinematic depiction of World War II. Recreating the Omaha Beach landing in searing detail, Steven Spielberg brought to life one of the most harrowing and horrifying chapters in that war’s history. Christopher Nolan now attempts to do By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 01:29 pm
