Logan Paul proved his courage by boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather in 2021, but has just tested his mettle once again by admitting that he walked out of “Oppenheimer” — because “everyone’s just talking” in the historical thriller and “nothing happens.”
“I walked out of ‘Oppenheimer,’” said Paul in a recent clip from his “Impaulsive” podcast that went viral. “Separately, 18 minutes into ‘Interstellar’ and I was considering walking out ‘cause it was so slow, and now ‘Interstellar’ is in my top three favorite movies.”
“I didn’t know what they were trying to — what are you doing?” Paul continued in his partial review of the film, which chronicles the titular physicist’s effort to develop the first atomic bomb. “Everyone’s just talking. It’s just an hour and a half, 90 minutes, it’s all exposition, just talking, just talking, talking. It’s all exposition, nothing happens.”
To his credit, right before he brought up “Oppenheimer,” Paul conceded, “My attention span is horrible.” He admitted as much after his co-host said he showed Paul “No Country for Old Men” and realized the newfound boxer “has a 42-second attention span.”
“And by the way, after the fact, when it was done, I realized what you were doing,” said Paul in his defense. “Those first 20 minutes are really important for building the characters. But at the time I didn’t know what I was watching.”
Paul has since been trounced online for his thoughts on “Oppenheimer,” considering the film hit theaters to universal praise — and brought in more than $700 million at the worldwide box office.
“Logan realizing all he’s doing on his podcast is talking and walks out of his own podcast,” joked one Twitter user, with another recalling the biggest blemish of his career: “‘Aw man. This movie has talking?!?! Let’s go play around with a dead body in a forest. This is lame.’”
Paul is currently preparing for a fight against mixed martial artist Dillon Danis.
The boxer is currently preparing for a bout against Dillon Danis, however, and reportedly just wished the fighter a happy birthday — by delivering a cake to their joint press conference in the shape of Danis lying on his back with a bruised face.
The fight will be held at Wembley Stadium in London on Oct. 14.
doesn’t he literally host a podcast where it’s sole existence is just to talk
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s recently released film Oppenheimer continues to create new box office records globally. Despite facing a tough clash against Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, the film has managed to hold steady at the box office and has reportedly crossed the $700 million mark in global earnings. With this, the film has reached a new milestone and is now the fourth highest grossing movie worldwide in 2023.Also Read – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Day 1 box office collection: Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh film earns more than Barbie but less than Oppenheimer
Notably, Oppenheimer is also Christopher Nolan’s fourth-highest-grossing film of all time. His top three box office successes include The Dark Knight (USD 1.006 billion), The Dark Knight Rises (USD 1.08 billion) and Inception (USD 837 million).
In India, Oppenheimer has so far minted over Rs 150 crore (around $18 million) and has established itself as a super-hit.
Oppenheimer Plot
The film revolves around World War II, when Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appointed physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer, accompanied by a team of scientists, spent years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.
Oppenheimer Cast
Cillian Murphy stars in the titular role of Robert Oppenheimer. His wife is played by Emily Blunt. Other cast of the film includes an ensemble cast of actors including Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Alden Ehrenreich, etc. The film is written by Christopher Nolan, Kai BirdMartin, and Sherwin.
Warner Bros. has apologized after its Japanese subsidiary criticized its parent company for engaging with the “Barbenheimer” marketing craze.
While the quirky contrast between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” was a recipe for box office magic when both films were released in the U.S. on July 21, people in Japan have called the mashup marketing push for the feminist comedy and atomic bomb origin story disrespectful, given the country’s history with nuclear weapons.
On Monday, Warner Bros. Japan responded to backlash against “Barbenheimer” in a statement on Twitter, where they accused their U.S. counterpart of making light of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work on the atomic bombs, which would destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
In its statement, Warner Bros. Japan called on its U.S. counterpart to “take appropriate action” on what they described as “highly regrettable” posts from official “Barbie” social media accounts.
Barbie and Oppenheimer were both released on July 21.
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Several now-deleted replies to fan-created art appear to be at the center of Warner Bros. Japan’s complaint, which reminded readers that “Barbenheimer” is not an official Warner Bros. project. (“Oppenheimer,” meanwhile, belongs to Universal Pictures.)
According to The New York Times, the official “Barbie” movie account joked about a fan-made image of Barbie with her hair coifed into the shape of an mushroom cloud in one since-removed Twitter reply. “This Ken is a stylist,” the account wrote back.
In another now-deleted reply, the account responded to a fan’s edit of Barbie and Oppenheimer in front of flames saying, “It’s going to be a summer to remember.”
Flocks of Japanese Twitter users responded with the hashtag #BarbieNoKen, which is a play on words that translates to “The Barbie Incident,” according to the Times. Others shared photos of victims’ bodies and flattened cities, while some vowed to boycott “Barbie” when it comes out on Aug. 11 in Japan.
Warner Bros. apologized for the posts in a statement on Tuesday, telling the Times it “regrets its recent insensitive social media engagement” and offered “a sincere apology.”
When asked about Japanese moviegoers’ reaction to “Barbenheimer,” Universal told the Times it was not aware of any controversy.
While “Barbie” will be in Japanese theaters soon, “Oppenheimer” has yet to set a release date for the region.
Though there has been some speculation the film will not screen in the country because of its sensitive subject matter, it is not uncommon for films to premiere in Japan long after their domestic debuts.
Next week, Japan will mark 78 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s estimated the attacks killed as many as 240,000 people upon impact and in the months after.
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s grandson is angry that Christopher Nolan’s film about the making and deployment of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained a scene suggesting he was “trying to kill somebody” — despite the mass deaths resulting from his creation.
“The part I like the least is this poison apple reference, which was a problem in ‘American Prometheus,’” Charles Oppenheimer told Time in a recent interview. “If you read ‘American Prometheus’ carefully enough, the authors say, ‘We don’t really know if it happened.’”
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s 2005 book, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography, essentially served as the blueprint for “Oppenheimer.” Both contained a scene from the physicist’s time at the University of Cambridge.
The moment occurs early in the film and shows J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) seemingly trying to poison his tutor with a potassium-cyanide-laced apple. He then scrambles to throw it away before physicist Niels Bohr (Kenneth Branagh) unknowingly reaches for it.
“There’s no record of him trying to kill somebody,” Charles Oppenheimer told Time about the scene. “That’s a really serious accusation and it’s historical revision. There’s not a single enemy or friend of Robert Oppenheimer who heard that during his life and considered it to be true.”
Charles Oppenheimer added he was bothered the moment was included in “American Prometheus” without a disclaimer noting it was “an unsubstantiated rumor.”
He added that Nolan’s film “told a compelling story,” however, which he accepted as “art that was really engaging.”
Charles said his grandfather, J. Robert Oppenheimer (pictured), never tried to kill his tutor.
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As for the hundreds of thousands killed as a result of his grandfather’s work, Charles Oppenheimer said that the U.S. government wrestled control of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s creation away from him and refused to heed his proposals on how to manage the new weapon.
“I think his advice is really relevant today, because he was right about how to manage atomic energy,” he told Time. “If we had followed his actual hard policy proposals, we could have avoided an arms race right after World War II … [He] saw where we should go.”
The U.S. detonated two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, killing an estimated 210,000 people. As shown in the film, former President Harry Truman refused to heed J. Robert Oppenheimer’s advice to co-manage America’s new power with its allies.
While he had gripes with the apple scene, Charles Oppenheimer is admittedly biased.
“I find that being related to him and having insight into who he was doesn’t always seem that interesting to other people,” he told Time. “They’re happy to ask a historian or a writer, and it’s not necessarily true that my impression of his values is taken as the answer.”
“So I kind of struggle with saying that I have a view of who he is and what he cared about.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Waves of pink-clad moviegoers passed under cardboard palm trees on the frenzied first day of “Barbenheimer.”
After a feverish drumbeat propelled forward by a mushroom cloud of memes, the most anticipated day on the year’s movie calendar finally arrived as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” — two movie opposites brought together by cross-marketing fate — landed in theaters.
“I think it’s the contrast,” said Lucy Ruiz, 17, as she and a friend made their way into the first showing of “Barbie” on Thursday at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, New York. “If you want to do both in the same day, it’s like two sides of the same coin.”
For Ruiz, the second half of her “Barbenheimer” would have to wait. “Maybe next week,” she said of seeing “Oppenheimer.”
But many are flocking to see both on opening weekend. The National Association of Theater Owners says some 200,000 moviegoers in North America have booked same-day tickets to each movie. The movie of the summer has turned out to be not “Indiana Jones” or “The Flash,” but a double feature.
“I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this,” says Michael O’Leary, president of the theater association, who compared the phenomenon to a sold-out Taylor Swift concert tour. “But while that’s an amazing special event that captures the cultural attention, it’s not accessible to everybody the way these two movies are. This is a phenomenon open to everyone, regardless of where they live.”
From left, Gabrielle Roitman, Kayla Seffing, Maddy Hiller and Casey Myer take a selfie in front of an “Oppenheimer” movie poster before they attended an advance screening of “Barbie” on Thursday in Los Angeles.
As of Friday, it was already clear “Barbenheimer” had morphed into the movie event of the year. The collision of Greta Gerwig’s bright satire of the Mattel doll and Christopher Nolan’s three-hour opus on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, wasn’t cannibalizing ticket sales for either but fueling excitement for the most jarring and color-clashing of movie weekends.
Studios forecasts had hovered around an $80 million opening weekend for “Barbie” and about $40 million for “Oppenheimer.” But it’s likely that both will greatly exceed those totals, and maybe even — especially in the case of “Barbie” — double them.
Warner Bros. said Friday that “Barbie” took in $22.5 million in Thursday previews, the best such tally of the year and a clear sign that the film will easily sail past $100 million for the weekend. Universal Pictures’ “Oppenheimer” notched $10.5 million in preshow ticket sales, a likewise strong start.
“Barbenheimer” is poised to be not just a viral trend but a box-office behemoth. For a movie industry that still hasn’t entirely recovered its pre-pandemic footing, it’s a much-needed jolt of moviegoing joy in a summer season where many of the top releases have fallen shy of expectations. Overall sales on the year are running about 20% below the box-office pace of 2019.
As much as the “Barbenheimer” fanfare has been driven by internet fascination, it’s in many ways an old-school movie weekend. Both movies are roundly acclaimed, original works by two of the best filmmakers working today. “Oppenheimer” has been hailed as a masterpiece; in my review, I called it “a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty.” The Associated Press’ Jocelyn Noveck called “Barbie” “brash, clever, idea-packed (if ultimately TOO packed) and most of all eye-poppingly lovely.”
For some moviegoers, “Barbenheimer” is their first blush with the once common practice of catching a double feature. Jack Robinson, 17, had tickets to see both movies with friends Saturday. He planned to don a suit for “Oppenheimer” before changing into pink for “Barbie.”
“I used to go to the movies a lot with my family and friends before corona happened. I’m very excited,” said Robinson. “It’ll be interesting to not leave the movie theater. Usually, it’s like bathroom and go home.”
In recent years, theater owners have often bemoaned not having enough films in the marketplace as streaming made inroads and studios increasingly concentrated their release schedules on fewer but bigger films. But “Barbenheimer” points to the possible reward when a varied group of films collective rise the box-office tide.
“Barbenheimer” may have momentarily eclipsed last week’s top film, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” — which, despite Tom Cruise’s lobbying, is losing IMAX screens to “Oppenheimer” this weekend. But having three big movies in close proximity to one other, O’Leary said, “is a good problem to have.”
“It’s certainly preferable to the alternative,” said O’Leary.
Parrot Analytics found that global demand for the casts of each film — all of whom have been publicly enthusiastic about seeing their rival movie — grew at virtually the same rate between late April and mid-July. The audience demographics are almost opposite one another. “Barbie” is appealing to a largely female and younger audience, while “Oppenheimer” is most popular with males and those over the age of 30, Parrot found.
Yet in a much-divided America, “Barbenheimer” has been the great pop-culture unifier of 2023. There is harmony in contrast.
“I’m doing ‘Barbie’ first and then ‘Oppenheimer’ because I know ‘Oppenheimer’ is going to be something I have to digest,” says Jill Kupnick of Brooklyn.
Movie theaters are catering to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon with double feature tickets and plenty of “Barbie”-themed promotions of candy and cocktails. But most are programming their own “Barbenheimer” days. Freelance writer Kelsey Weekman called it “the closest we’ve come to having school spirit week as adults.”
“I have a friend who has outfits picked out and knows how she’s styling her hair,” Krupnick says. “There’s a level of play involved that you rarely see in more mainstream cinema. It’s more common with Marvel movies or in the fantasy genre than something like this.”
“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have melded together so much that it’s become possible — despite their vast differences — to confuse one for the other. At the Yonkers Alamo Drafthouse, a sharply dressed man wearing a pink shirt beneath a blazer inquired about showtimes for “Oppenheimer.”
A clerk courteously answered and then, noticing the man’s attire, asked, “Did you want times for ‘Barbie,’ too?”
Cillian Murphy is already earning rave reviews for his portrayal in “Oppenheimer” of the eponymous physicist who built the first nuclear bomb. Part of the Irish actor’s method was to look as much like the scientist as possible ― and that included extreme tactics, as co-stars Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon recently shared.
In an interview with Fandango, Blunt said filming the Los Alamos National Laboratory scenes in New Mexico offered great local cuisine. But Murphy skipped out while portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer, she said.
“We were all in New Mexico, like, eating quesadillas, and [Murphy] was like, in his room, eating an almond,” Blunt said during a group interview with Fandango posted last week. Damon added: “He declined every dinner invitation for the entire film. We invited him to dinner every night. He never came once.”
“He had such a monumental undertaking,” Blunt told Extra in an interview last week. “And he could only eat, like, an almond every day. He was so emaciated.”
Murphy joins many other actors in changing their bodies for a role or feeling pressure to do so. Stars themselves have warned that altering their bodies can be unhealthy physically and mentally ― while others have cautioned that celebrating dramatic weight loss by actors is dangerous for observers as well.
Murphy recently told The Guardian that “becoming competitive with yourself” in regards to how thin one can get for a role isn’t healthy, and notably declined to discuss details of his “Oppenheimer” diet.
“I don’t want it to be, ‘Cillian lost x weight for the part,’” he told the outlet.
“I love acting with my body, and Oppenheimer had a very distinct physicality and silhouette,” Murphy told the Times. “I had to lose quite a bit of weight … he was very slim, almost emaciated, existed on martinis and cigarettes.”
While Murphy has worked with visionary director Christopher Nolan before — and starred in “Inception” (2010), “Dunkirk” (2017) and the “Dark Knight” trilogy (2005-2012) — “Oppenheimer” marks the first time he’s leading a blockbuster of such scale.
