Matt Damon Calls Off ‘Oppenheimer’ vs. ‘Barbie’ Social Media Rivalry: ‘People Are Allowed to Go See Two Movies in a Weekend’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Social media has been having a field day with “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” ever since it was revealed that Universal and Warner Bros.

would be opening the two tentpoles on the same day: July 21. Adding drama to the rivalry is the fact that Nolan left Warner Bros.

after a two-decade partnership and made “Oppenheimer” at Universal, only for Warner Bros. to then set its Greta Gerwig-directed tentpole for release on the same day as Nolan’s atomic bomb drama.  “This is the first I’m hearing about it, actually.

I haven’t paid any attention to that,” Matt Damon recently told Vanity Fair after learning about the social media debates over which film fans will see first on opening night. “People are allowed to go see two movies in a weekend. ‘Oppenheimer’ is one of them!” Damon has four daughters, so it might be presumed they go check out “Barbie” before “Oppenheimer.” “I’ll have to ask them that,” Damon said. “If that’s the case, they’ll see two movies that weekend!” Damon stars in “Oppenheimer” as General Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project who appointed J.