Los Angeles, Dec 17 (Ians) Jack Quaid started a group chat called the ‘Oppenhomies’ with the cast of Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ when the actor got stranded filming in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
“It’s like my biggest claim to fame at this point… starting a huge text chain,” Quaid said during an impromptu panel for author Jada Yuan’s “Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan’s Atomic-Age Thriller” at a private Brooklyn.
The actor, who also stars in the hit show ‘The Boys’, recalled how he’d taken a taxi from his Hampton Inn while filming the Nolan drama to a local grocery store, then realised he had no way to get back, reports pagesix.com.
“I’m leaving, I have my cartful of groceries, I’m on my phone and I realise I was very lucky to get that Uber… because there’s no Uber,” said Quaid.
He...
“It’s like my biggest claim to fame at this point… starting a huge text chain,” Quaid said during an impromptu panel for author Jada Yuan’s “Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan’s Atomic-Age Thriller” at a private Brooklyn.
The actor, who also stars in the hit show ‘The Boys’, recalled how he’d taken a taxi from his Hampton Inn while filming the Nolan drama to a local grocery store, then realised he had no way to get back, reports pagesix.com.
“I’m leaving, I have my cartful of groceries, I’m on my phone and I realise I was very lucky to get that Uber… because there’s no Uber,” said Quaid.
He...
- 12/17/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
This is our last filmmaking books column in 2023, and it’s a good one. Plus, you can watch for even more gems from recent months in our companion column running next month. As always, thanks for reading and supporting so many great authors and artists.
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
As an adolescent in the early 1990s, one of my Sunday night rituals was recording that week’s episode of “Siskel & Ebert”––it aired late-night in Buffalo, NY––and watching it the following day. The internet was in its infancy, so the reviews of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were both a lifeline to what was happening in film and a cinematic education. It is no exaggeration to say that I learned how to discuss movies thanks to Gene and Roger. For my generation, then, the release of...
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
As an adolescent in the early 1990s, one of my Sunday night rituals was recording that week’s episode of “Siskel & Ebert”––it aired late-night in Buffalo, NY––and watching it the following day. The internet was in its infancy, so the reviews of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were both a lifeline to what was happening in film and a cinematic education. It is no exaggeration to say that I learned how to discuss movies thanks to Gene and Roger. For my generation, then, the release of...
- 12/11/2023
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
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In Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," Albert Einstein (Tom Conti) only briefly appears. The famous scientist shares a few scenes with Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) himself, but these interactions are pivotal to the Manhattan Project, and the haunting realization about the world's future towards the end. There seems to be a misunderstanding regarding the involvement of the real Einstein in the creation of the atomic bomb — while the scientist's popular E = mc^2 equation does explain the theoretical nitty-gritty of the massive energy released by an atomic bomb, it does not provide any instructions for actually building one. Einstein was, in fact, denied security clearance to be involved with the Manhattan Project, and did not have a close relationship with Oppenheimer until the last decade of his life.
Nolan took some creative liberties to drive the film's dramatic nexus toward interesting directions, and...
In Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," Albert Einstein (Tom Conti) only briefly appears. The famous scientist shares a few scenes with Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) himself, but these interactions are pivotal to the Manhattan Project, and the haunting realization about the world's future towards the end. There seems to be a misunderstanding regarding the involvement of the real Einstein in the creation of the atomic bomb — while the scientist's popular E = mc^2 equation does explain the theoretical nitty-gritty of the massive energy released by an atomic bomb, it does not provide any instructions for actually building one. Einstein was, in fact, denied security clearance to be involved with the Manhattan Project, and did not have a close relationship with Oppenheimer until the last decade of his life.
Nolan took some creative liberties to drive the film's dramatic nexus toward interesting directions, and...
- 12/2/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
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Never one to skirt the truth, visionary director Christopher Nolan has always paid close attention to getting the real story down on 70mm film, even down to the smallest detail. "The Dark Knight" was so grounded in reality that Batman seemed more like an actual historical figure than a traumatized superhero. With "Oppenheimer," Nolan and his team had one of the most exhaustive biographies ever written at their disposal, "American Prometheus," written by authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. That deep dive into the definitive account of the creation of the atomic bomb and its aftermath even led to more discoveries that the historians missed the first time around.
In the ongoing effort during production to make "Oppenheimer" as accurate as possible, Nolan originally wanted to film the show-stopping spectacle of the atomic bomb detonation at the same location...
Never one to skirt the truth, visionary director Christopher Nolan has always paid close attention to getting the real story down on 70mm film, even down to the smallest detail. "The Dark Knight" was so grounded in reality that Batman seemed more like an actual historical figure than a traumatized superhero. With "Oppenheimer," Nolan and his team had one of the most exhaustive biographies ever written at their disposal, "American Prometheus," written by authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. That deep dive into the definitive account of the creation of the atomic bomb and its aftermath even led to more discoveries that the historians missed the first time around.
In the ongoing effort during production to make "Oppenheimer" as accurate as possible, Nolan originally wanted to film the show-stopping spectacle of the atomic bomb detonation at the same location...
- 10/27/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
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It seems a little trite and obvious to put into words, but the film "Oppenheimer" had to be made carefully when it came to the movie's optics. The ostensible protagonist of the biopic is J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy), a man whose life and legacy are fraught with numerous political, social, and moral issues that cannot be easily resolved in reality, let alone a single motion picture. Added to that is writer/director Christopher Nolan's unique approach to telling his story, which revolves around adopting an intensely subjective point of view, an aesthetic that began with the movie's script being written in the first person (from Oppenheimer's perspective) and continued as far as the depiction of a number of surreal, dreamlike visions that Oppenheimer experiences during the film.
In adapting the book "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin,...
It seems a little trite and obvious to put into words, but the film "Oppenheimer" had to be made carefully when it came to the movie's optics. The ostensible protagonist of the biopic is J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy), a man whose life and legacy are fraught with numerous political, social, and moral issues that cannot be easily resolved in reality, let alone a single motion picture. Added to that is writer/director Christopher Nolan's unique approach to telling his story, which revolves around adopting an intensely subjective point of view, an aesthetic that began with the movie's script being written in the first person (from Oppenheimer's perspective) and continued as far as the depiction of a number of surreal, dreamlike visions that Oppenheimer experiences during the film.
In adapting the book "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
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J. Robert Oppenheimer has and will be remembered by history as the father of the nuclear bomb — provided his creation leaves a history left to be recorded. In fact, his other enduring creation was just a means to an end for him and his colleagues on the Manhattan Project to build the bomb. What is that creation? Los Alamos Labs, which audiences got to see on the silver screen this year in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."
Los Alamos (meaning "The Cottonwoods" in English) is a town/county in New Mexico located outside the state capital of Santa Fe. The American Southwest was Oppenheimer's adopted homeland; in Nolan's "Oppenheimer," Oppie (played by Cillian Murphy) says that a way to combine his physics research and New Mexico would be his paradise. The monkey's paw curls and he gets his wish, choosing Los...
J. Robert Oppenheimer has and will be remembered by history as the father of the nuclear bomb — provided his creation leaves a history left to be recorded. In fact, his other enduring creation was just a means to an end for him and his colleagues on the Manhattan Project to build the bomb. What is that creation? Los Alamos Labs, which audiences got to see on the silver screen this year in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."
Los Alamos (meaning "The Cottonwoods" in English) is a town/county in New Mexico located outside the state capital of Santa Fe. The American Southwest was Oppenheimer's adopted homeland; in Nolan's "Oppenheimer," Oppie (played by Cillian Murphy) says that a way to combine his physics research and New Mexico would be his paradise. The monkey's paw curls and he gets his wish, choosing Los...
- 10/26/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
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New Mexico has never exactly been a hot bed of the entertainment industry. Yes, that was where "Breaking Bad" was made, but when you think about the big wigs in the industry, you aren't picturing them living there. That is not a judgment on the state or its people. It's just not New York or Los Angeles. Well, New Mexico happened to be the central location for one of the biggest films of the year: Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."
The program to develop the atomic bomb may have been called the Manhattan Project, but the place where it was being created was Los Alamos, New Mexico, as its open desert space made it the perfect place to test a bomb in isolation. Christopher Nolan, being the practical filmmaker he is, wanted to shoot in New Mexico, and shooting at any...
New Mexico has never exactly been a hot bed of the entertainment industry. Yes, that was where "Breaking Bad" was made, but when you think about the big wigs in the industry, you aren't picturing them living there. That is not a judgment on the state or its people. It's just not New York or Los Angeles. Well, New Mexico happened to be the central location for one of the biggest films of the year: Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."
The program to develop the atomic bomb may have been called the Manhattan Project, but the place where it was being created was Los Alamos, New Mexico, as its open desert space made it the perfect place to test a bomb in isolation. Christopher Nolan, being the practical filmmaker he is, wanted to shoot in New Mexico, and shooting at any...
- 10/25/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Stories from the sets of notoriously particular filmmaker Christopher Nolan are always entertaining, and the new book "Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan's Explosive Atomic-Age Thriller" is full of them. Jada Yuan's behind-the-scenes look at the making of the blockbuster historical drama features an assortment of surprising tidbits, including one about, believe it or not, an excruciatingly long haircut.
Strange as it sounds, fans of Cillian Murphy are no stranger to stories about the actor's hair. When Murphy worked on "Peaky Blinders," he said he was "alarmed by" the signature closely shaved undercut style his character Tommy Shelby sported in the show, noting he was "contractually obligated" to stick with the style. Couple an actor who understandably has opinions on his own hair with a director who's famous for his at times excruciating attention to detail, and apparently you get a five-hour haircut. According to Yuan, Murphy started the production with longer hair,...
Strange as it sounds, fans of Cillian Murphy are no stranger to stories about the actor's hair. When Murphy worked on "Peaky Blinders," he said he was "alarmed by" the signature closely shaved undercut style his character Tommy Shelby sported in the show, noting he was "contractually obligated" to stick with the style. Couple an actor who understandably has opinions on his own hair with a director who's famous for his at times excruciating attention to detail, and apparently you get a five-hour haircut. According to Yuan, Murphy started the production with longer hair,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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We can safely assume Cillian Murphy will (deservedly) receive his first acting Oscar nod and perhaps his first win for "Oppenheimer." As the "father of the atomic bomb," Murphy is tasked with playing someone haunted by his every waking moment. Whether he is a young scientist fixated on unraveling the secrets of the universe or an older man tormented by the horrors that his creation has inflicted, J. Robert "Oppie" Oppenheimer is a figure who always carries the weight of the world on his shoulders in the film. That's not necessarily simple to communicate without resorting to histrionics, so it's a credit to Murphy that he often does so with little more than a harrowed expression.
Perhaps the only thing more intimidating than pretending to be someone who is relentlessly tormented by their inner demons is (gasp) pretending to be...
We can safely assume Cillian Murphy will (deservedly) receive his first acting Oscar nod and perhaps his first win for "Oppenheimer." As the "father of the atomic bomb," Murphy is tasked with playing someone haunted by his every waking moment. Whether he is a young scientist fixated on unraveling the secrets of the universe or an older man tormented by the horrors that his creation has inflicted, J. Robert "Oppie" Oppenheimer is a figure who always carries the weight of the world on his shoulders in the film. That's not necessarily simple to communicate without resorting to histrionics, so it's a credit to Murphy that he often does so with little more than a harrowed expression.
Perhaps the only thing more intimidating than pretending to be someone who is relentlessly tormented by their inner demons is (gasp) pretending to be...
- 10/24/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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Anyone who's watched a Christopher Nolan movie knows that the blockbuster director has his eyes set on one thing above all else: verisimilitude. Even as someone whose movies have dabbled in superheroes, mind heists, and actual magic, Nolan always seems to circle back to grounding his stories in reality ... because, in many ways, fact really can be just as dramatic and inexplicable as fiction. In that sense, it might have been inevitable that he'd end up making an epic-sized biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atomic bomb." True to form, "Oppenheimer" digs deep into its source material to uncover every step taken on the path towards one of history's most unspeakable atrocities.
Nolan's obsessive quest to research all aspects of Oppenheimer's life and especially the political rivalry between he and Lewis Strauss, however, didn't just stop there.
Anyone who's watched a Christopher Nolan movie knows that the blockbuster director has his eyes set on one thing above all else: verisimilitude. Even as someone whose movies have dabbled in superheroes, mind heists, and actual magic, Nolan always seems to circle back to grounding his stories in reality ... because, in many ways, fact really can be just as dramatic and inexplicable as fiction. In that sense, it might have been inevitable that he'd end up making an epic-sized biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atomic bomb." True to form, "Oppenheimer" digs deep into its source material to uncover every step taken on the path towards one of history's most unspeakable atrocities.
Nolan's obsessive quest to research all aspects of Oppenheimer's life and especially the political rivalry between he and Lewis Strauss, however, didn't just stop there.
- 10/24/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
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This year, "Oppenheimer" became an unstoppable hit for Universal Pictures. Of course, a new movie from "The Dark Knight" and "Inception" director Christopher Nolan is always going to pique the curiosity of even the most general audiences. But the fact that a three-hour historical biopic starring Cillian Murphy in his first leading role as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man responsible for creating the atomic bomb, made over $939 million at the worldwide box office is quite shocking. Bolstered by the natural hype phenomenon known as Barbenheimer, which paired this year's hit "Barbie" with an unlikely double-feature partner, "Oppenheimer" is one of the biggest cinematic successes of 2023. And soon, you can find out how it all came together.
Insight Editions
This month, Insight Editions is releasing "Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan's Explosive Atomic-Age Thriller," a 272-page book that chronicles the making of the film,...
This year, "Oppenheimer" became an unstoppable hit for Universal Pictures. Of course, a new movie from "The Dark Knight" and "Inception" director Christopher Nolan is always going to pique the curiosity of even the most general audiences. But the fact that a three-hour historical biopic starring Cillian Murphy in his first leading role as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man responsible for creating the atomic bomb, made over $939 million at the worldwide box office is quite shocking. Bolstered by the natural hype phenomenon known as Barbenheimer, which paired this year's hit "Barbie" with an unlikely double-feature partner, "Oppenheimer" is one of the biggest cinematic successes of 2023. And soon, you can find out how it all came together.
Insight Editions
This month, Insight Editions is releasing "Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan's Explosive Atomic-Age Thriller," a 272-page book that chronicles the making of the film,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
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