Nolan sets next film with Universal, spurning Warner Bros.

NEW YORK – After a nationalist fallout implicit merchandise strategy with Warner Bros., Christopher Nolan's adjacent film, astir J. Robert Oppenheimer and the improvement of the atom bomb, volition beryllium released by Universal Pictures.

Representatives for the workplace confirmed Tuesday that Universal has get the rights to concern and administer Nolan's not-yet-titled film. Deadline Hollywood first reported the deal.

Nolan besides wrote the film's publication astir the theoretical physicist. Production is expected to statesman aboriginal adjacent year.

With lone a fistful of exceptions, Warner Bros. had agelong been location to Nolan going backmost to 2002's “Insomnia.” With the workplace helium made “The Dark Knight” trilogy, the best-picture nominee “Dunkirk,” the 2010 mind-bender “Inception” and 2020's time-traveling “Tenet.” (Warner Bros. handled planetary organisation connected 2006's “The Prestige” and 2014's “Interstellar.”)

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Last year, Warner Bros. launched “Tenet” successful theaters successful September astatine a clip erstwhile overmuch of the movie manufacture was timid astir releasing big-budget movies. The sci-fi thriller yet grossed $363.7 million, making it easy the biggest Hollywood pandemic merchandise of the year.

But erstwhile Warner Bros. successful December announced plans to merchandise each of its 2021 films simultaneously connected HBO Max, Nolan — agelong an ardent advocator for the theatrical acquisition — was 1 of the studio's harshest critics. In a statement, helium said “some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and astir important movie stars went to furniture the nighttime earlier reasoning they were moving for the top movie workplace and woke up to find retired they were moving for the worst streaming service.”

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“Warner Bros. had an unthinkable instrumentality for getting a filmmaker’s enactment retired everywhere, some successful theaters and successful the home, and they are dismantling it arsenic we speak," wrote Nolan. "They don’t adjacent recognize what they’re losing. Their determination makes nary economical sense, and adjacent the astir casual Wall Street capitalist tin spot the quality betwixt disruption and dysfunction.”

Shortly thereafter, helium called the studio's plans “a mess” in an interrogation with The Associated Press.

“It’s a unilateral determination that the workplace took. They didn’t adjacent archer the radical involved,” Nolan said. “You person these large filmmakers who worked with passionateness and diligence for years connected projects that are intended to beryllium diagnostic films with fantastic movie stars. And they’ve each present been told that they’re a loss-leader for a fledgling streaming service.”

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Executives for Warner Bros. person maintained that the workplace volition instrumentality to releasing movies exclusively successful theaters adjacent year.

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