Two most anticipated films of the year 2023 are releasing at the end of this month. The films are Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Both the films are set to premiere head-to-head on the 21st of July making it one of the most exciting face-offs in recent times.
The Warner Bro’s Barbie could open on $80 million however Warner Bro’s are being cautious suggesting that it will open at $60 million. On the other hand, Universal picture’s Oppenheimer is said to debut at only $40 million domestically. This would mark the Christopher Nolan’s lowest film debut excluding Tenet which was opened amid covid for $20 million.
And along with these, Paramount is releasing Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning on the 12th of July and this release will also be a grand event even though Barbie and Oppenheimer are releasing later the same month. It would be exciting to see which debut comes first this month as all three of the films carry almost similar chances.
Barbie
Barbie is a romantic comedy film that stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken and is about the life of the iconic line of toy dolls by Mattel. This film would be the first ever live action Barbie film as there were many animated versions before.
The film was announced in 2009 and originally Sony pictures has the rights to it but later on Sony pictures lost the rights to it and Warner Bros got the right to the film in 2018. Robbie was cast in 2019 and Gosling and other cast were confirmed in the early 2022 along with the director and cowriter of the film Greta Gerwig, other writer of the film was Baumbach.
Barbie will hold its premiere in Los Angeles on July 9th and is said to premiere all over the United States on the 21st of July. This film won the most anticipated film of 2023 award as well due to the extraordinary marketing and merchandising done for the film on social media which also increased the hype of it.
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is an R rated drama film that is focused more towards the adults and it is about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer who is also called the father of the atom bomb. Based on books such as American Prometheus, this film shows the story of how the father of atom bomb tried to save the world and could almost destroy it as well.
The film stars Cillian Murphy in the lead role of Oppenheimer and with a supporting cast of other A listers such as- Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh. The film is written and directed by Christopher Nolan who announced the film in 2021. This is the first film of Nolan to receive an R rating since 2002 where his film Insomnia got an R rating.
This film is set to release in the UK and the US on 21st of July by Universal Pictures.
