‘Oppenheimer’ reaches new box office milestone internationally
nme.comOppenheimer continues to break records around the world, and now the film has become Christopher Nolan’s biggest Box Office hit overseas.The biopic profiles Robert J.
Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy), the real-life American physicist who played a pivotal role in the creation of the atomic bomb in World War II.
The film has garnered over $960million (£757million) worldwide to date at the Box Office.Last week, the film received its long-awaited release in Japan where it opened to mixed reviews.Often dubbed ‘the father of the atomic bomb’, Oppenheimer was instrumental in the creation of the nuclear weapons that were used in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict in human history.
Hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens were killed.The release of the film in the country has proved critical, with the mayor of Hiroshima saying (via Associated Press): “From Hiroshima’s standpoint, the horror of nuclear weapons was not sufficiently depicted.
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