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Oppenheimer has solely been in theaters for just a few days, however star Cillian Murphy is already eager about his subsequent gig — and his followers have some concepts.
Murphy, 47, not too long ago fielded a query from Cinefilos about whether or not he would say sure to showing in a possible Barbie sequel after months of Barbenheimer memes casting him in opposition to Margot Robbie.
“Would I play a Ken in Barbie 2?” Murphy mentioned with fun. “Certain, yeah! Let’s learn the script, let’s have a dialog.”
Murphy, who performs atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan‘s movie, went on to notice that he was trying ahead to seeing Barbie, which was directed and cowritten by Greta Gerwig. “I can’t wait to see the film,” he mentioned. “I feel it’s nice for cinema. You’ve bought all these nice motion pictures occurring this summer time.”
Barbenheimer turned an object of web fascination after social media customers realized the 2 vastly totally different motion pictures shared the identical Friday, July 21, launch date. Whereas the jokes began as a web-based gag, the dialog appears to have helped the movies on the field workplace. Barbie, got here in first place with $162 million, giving it the largest opening weekend of the yr and the largest opening ever for a film directed by a girl.
“This historic end result displays the extraordinary warmth, curiosity and enthusiasm for Barbie,” Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. president of home distribution, mentioned in an announcement. “This doll will certainly have lengthy lengthy legs.”
Oppenheimer, in the meantime, pulled in additional than $82 million. In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, the 2 motion pictures’ large success marks the primary time a three-day weekend has seen one movie open with greater than $100 million and one other with greater than $50 million.
Cinemark, one of many largest theater chains within the U.S., mentioned Barbenheimer delivered their greatest summer time weekend of all time.
“Folks love coming collectively to expertise nice storytelling in a movie show, as confirmed but once more by the sheer quantity of customers who visited our places to see Barbie and Oppenheimer throughout opening weekend,” Cinemark chief advertising and marketing and content material officer Wanda Gierhart Fearing advised THR. “It seems Barbie really is the whole lot, and Christopher Nolan followers turned out in droves to see his latest masterpiece within the larger-than-life theatrical format that he meant.”
Nobody concerned with Barbie has made any bulletins a couple of sequel amid all its record-breaking achievements, however the film’s spectacular debut is an indication that audiences are right here for all times in plastic. Robbie, 33, hinted final month that Barbie may definitely turn out to be a franchise, however she famous that nobody was eager about that risk whereas engaged on the venture.
“I feel you fall right into a little bit of a entice for those who attempt to arrange a primary film while additionally planning for sequels,” she advised TIME in June. “It may go 1,000,000 totally different instructions from this level.”
