Tom Cruise Is Frustrated That Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER Is Taking Up All the IMAX Theaters
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming atomic bomb film Oppenheimer is exclusively booked in every IMAX theater and screen in North America for three entire weeks, and Tom Cruise is reportedly very frustrated with the situation.
According to a report from Puck News, Cruise is said to have been complaining "loudly" to executives at Paramount about this whole situation because Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One will be in theaters a little over a week before Oppenheimer is released, so that movie will only have nine days worth of screenings in IMAX.
The report also says that Cruise has also been calling around to studio and theater executives, trying to open up as many premium large format screens as possible for Dead Reckoning which will be released on July 12th. Oppenheimer comes out on July 21st.
So, a year after Cruise "saved movies" with Top Gun: Maverick, the actor is now going into battle for the theatrical rollout of his next film, and it's one that he's most likely not going to win. Oppenheimer was filmed entirely with IMAX cameras, and IMAX is going to want to show that off. So, it’s got an entire three weeks of exclusivity.
On top of that, it’s said that Universal Pictures had locked in Oppenheimer‘s release date months before Dead Reckoning moved to its current release date.
The epic thriller will tell “the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.” Nolan is such a strong storyteller and this movie is going to be something special, it just looks like in incredible movie that tells a fascinating story.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. He is joined by Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
The movie also stars Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence, along with Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, and Matthew Modine.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.