Christopher Nolan The Odyssey: When in Korea Christopher Nolan’s films are popular in Korea. For example, back in 2014, Interstellar was seen by “over 7 million of 50 million Koreans” with a box office of over $50 million alone in the country. When you factor in Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer, Nolan has brought in over “36 By Lainey • Aug 04, 2026 01:56 pm
Christopher Nolan The Odyssey in China Earlier this week, I posted about Christopher Nolan’s popularity in China. Even though his films often feature an ensemble of A-listers, including The Odyssey, for a large segment of the Chinese audience, he’s the actual superstar. Which is why almost all IMAX screens in China will be By Lainey • Jul 31, 2026 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 27, 2026 Dear Gossips, Most people, at least the ones who know what they’re talking about and not just social media trolls, were expecting The Odyssey to do well during its second weekend at the box office. Preliminary numbers are now in – only a 30% drop from the first weekend for By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey No one in modern cinema loves a dead wife more than Christopher Nolan, whose oeuvre is littered with dead women, haunting their men, sometimes literally, from the beyond. These spectral spouses—in the case of Oppenheimer, it is a dead mistress—drive Nolan’s protagonists through his timey-wimey narratives By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 11:12 am
Christopher Nolan Odyssey Colour Coordination Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, and Tom Holland were all seen coordinating but separately yesterday in New York on various press commitments to promote The Odyssey, opening this coming Friday. The film has already broken IMAX sales records. I saw it in IMAX and loved it in IMAX – I mean it’ll By Lainey • Jul 14, 2026 11:42 am
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya is the Teacher’s Pet Do the kids still use this expression? If not, the teacher’s pet is the teacher’s favourite, a label assigned to one student by the other students who believe that the teacher’s pet can do no wrong in the teacher’s eyes. Back in my day, we’d By Lainey • Jul 13, 2026 12:20 pm
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 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, 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 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
