As is always the case during development of a new Christopher Nolan film, we don’t know anything about it. Well, what we do know about it are the folks who are joining the cast, including his latest addition, Lupita Nyong’o.

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According to THR, Lupita Nyong’o is the latest actor to join Christopher Nolan’s upcoming new film.

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Heath Ledger’s Joker still ranks as one of the best performances in a comic book film. There’s a large portion of fandom that would say he’s easily the best. No matter what, Ledger is iconic as the Joker. But it appears Christopher Nolan might have been toying around with the idea of another actor for that role, someone who would actually go on to play the Joker at a later time. 

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Tom Holland was recently on the Men’s Wellness/Mental Health Rich Roll Podcast, and one of the main themes from the podcast was “launching a second career” and how he’s “more than [just] ‘Spider-Man’”—and dude wasn’t kidding. While “Spider-Man 4” is definitely in the works, the actor is starting to look at the next phase of his career, and it seems like it’s about to begin with Christopher Nolan’s next film.

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With the massive success of “Oppenheimer” behind him, Christopher Nolan is ready to move onto the next project, and apparently, he’s found a star to lead the cast.

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According to Variety, Christopher Nolan has a new film in the works through Universal with a 2026 release date. To add to the intrigue, it appears that Matt Damon is the filmmaker’s choice to lead the cast.

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In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo finds redemption in “The Convert.” The film follows a preacher sent to British-occupied New Zealand in the 1830s and caught up in the middle of a Maori tribal war. The Lee Tamahori (“Mulholland Falls,” “Along Came a Spider,” “The Devil’s Double”) film stars Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Jacqueline McKenzie, Lawrence Makoare, Antonio Te Maioha, and more. 

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The annals of unmade Christopher Nolan films are not particularly long. Perhaps one of the legendary projects mentioned in the past was Nolan’s unrealized Howard Hughes project—some brief elements of which he folded into Bruce Wayne’s recluse period in “The Dark Knight Rises.” There was also, at one point in the past, Nolan’s intentions of remaking the surreal 1960s TV series, “The Prisoner,” created by and starring Patrick McGoohan (which is loosely rumored to be among the next projects he is thinking about making post “Oppenheimer”).

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Jonathan Nolan (“Westworld”) is out in the world promoting his upcoming post-apocalyptic Amazon series “Fallout” and, of course, his time working on “The Dark Knight” trilogy with his brother Christopher Nolan is still a topic that journalists are insatiable curious about. While speaking with Josh Horowitz on his podcast, Happy Sad Confused, Nolan took a tour down memory lane, reflecting on all things Batman.

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While he was known for years as Christopher Nolan’s co-writer, his younger brother, Jonathan Nolan, has really taken off in recent years and made his name for himself on television. Following shows like “Person of Interest” and HBO’s “Westworld,” a series he created and led for many years, the younger Nolan is about to debut his latest show, “Fallout,” on Amazon Prime.

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Believe it or not, Jake Gyllenhaal was once in the running to play the Caped Crusader. IndieWire reports (via The Howard Stern Show) that the “Road House” actor revealed he was one of Christopher Nolan‘s final choices to play Bruce Wayne in “Batman Begins.” And that’s not only close casting Gyllenhaal unveiled: Baz Luhrmann was also looking at him to star in the 2001 musical “Moulin Rouge!

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While it’s hard to pinpoint an origin story for the backlash, it’s no secret that it became popular to hate on actress Anne Hathaway circa 2011 and 2012, the former being the year she hosted the Oscars with James Franco and the latter the year she won her first Oscar for “Les Misérables.” Perhaps it was the earnestness, possibly what was seen as an eager-to-please attitude. Still, the actress definitely took a perception hit in those ensuing years, seemingly adopted by the press as well.

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In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo stays up late to discuss the film “Late Night with the Devil” with producer and star David Dastmalchian (“The Dark Knight,” “The Suicide Squad.” The film follows a fledgling late-night host (Dastmalchian) who decides to invite some spooky guests on his struggling 70’s late-night show to boost ratings—unleashing evil in front of the whole world.

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After so many snubs and just not close enough, Christopher Nolan is finally an Oscar winner. The American-British filmmaker had earned eight nominations before the night began. Up for three individually tonight, he took his first Academy Award statue for Best Director.

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Nolan beat out some legendary competition including Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”), Jonathan Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”), and Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”).

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Updated: Full winners list below Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” won Best Picture, Best Director, and seven Oscars in total, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.

The 96th Academy Awards are finally here. And after a strike-affected awards season, with little controversy (well, maybe), Jimmy Kimmel is ready to emcee a ceremony that promises a massive “I’m Just Ken” musical number and a lot of wins for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” In fact, one of the only big questions remaining for the night is in one of the few categories where the blockbuster didn’t earn a nomination: Best Actress.

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As Timothée Chalamet’s “Wonka” has quietly crossed the $600 million mark worldwide—a remarkable figure given the film wasn’t a box office smash but clearly had great sustained longevity theatrically—the actor is starring down his next lead role in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” (read our review) It’s a film whose hype is so large at the moment it suggests it could best that “Wonka” record, but we’ll see if it has the same kind of four-quadrant appeal.

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Recently, “Oppenheimer” filmmaker Christopher Nolan made headlines by favorably comparing Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” to the “Star Wars” sequel, “The Empire Strikes Back.” Those comments come from a conversation that took place on February 2, 2024, after a screening of Nolan’s sci-fi “Tenet” in IMAX 70mm Film at AMC CityWalk, as the film was recently given a quick theatrical re-release (“Tenet” came out during the pandemic and wasn’t as widely seen theatrically as most of Nolan’s movies, only grossing 365.3 million, given that was the heart of COVID-19 season in summer 2020).

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What’s next for Christopher Nolan after “Oppenheimer“? Variety reports that the director doesn’t have exact plans yet for his next film, but he’d consider making a horror movie, so long as the idea was “really exceptional.”

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Nolan talked about his love of the horror genre at an event at BFI last night in London.

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When you think of filmmakers working today in terms of teams, one of the easiest ways to separate them is by their public statements about Marvel films. (Yes, this is reductive, but it’s sadly quite true.) There are folks like Martin Scorsese who famously called out Marvel and franchise filmmaking in general as detrimental to the art of cinema. And often, we put Christopher Nolan in that group as well, considering he is someone who is old-school in his methodology (shooting on film, practical effects, etc…) and philosophy.

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Given so much time has passed, most of the “what if” legends of most superhero films are out there already. For Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” we all know that Cillian Murphy lost out to Christian Bale for the Batman role. Still, the filmmaker was so intrigued that he cast him as Scarecrow instead, and that was the start of a beautiful acting collaboration that peaked with “Oppenheimer.” We also know Jake Gyllenhaal was up for Batman, Gary Oldman was up for Scarecrow (and took Jim Gordon instead), and Josh Hartnett was another actor up for Batman, too.

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When you look at the creative level most people hope to achieve when crafting a sci-fi/fantasy film, the original “Star Wars” trilogy is really that high water mark, particularly ‘Empire Strikes Back.’ So when anyone compares the upcoming “Dune: Part Two” to ‘Empire,’ that is high praise. But for it to come from the mouth of Christopher Nolan, that makes it a bit more meaningful.

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With 13 nominations apiece for the Oscars and the BAFTAs, “Oppenheimer” looks to be the awards season favorite. But director Christopher Nolan thinks his latest film may end up being more than that. In fact, Deadline reports that Nolan thinks “Oppenheimer” may usher in a sea change in cinematic culture that changes Hollywood for the better.

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“I think the success of “Oppenheimer” certainly points to a sort of post franchise, post intellectual property, landscape for movies — it’s kind of encouraging,” Nolan told the awards season podcast “Countdown To The BAFTAs,” hosted by Alex Zane.

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Unless you’re Quentin Tarantino, if you’re a really intensely celebrated filmmaker, sometimes you just don’t praise anything because it sometimes draws attention away from less work or becomes reductive absorbed. The great Stanley Kubrick once famously said, “I am always reluctant to single out some particular feature of the work of a major filmmaker because it tends inevitably to simplify and reduce the work,” when deciding to praise Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “The Decalogue,” regardless. Christopher Nolan is another one who kind of plays his cards close to the vest, heaping tons of praise on classic films, but is relatively sparing when discussing contemporary movies (also, there’s that English politeness where you don’t say anything if you don’t have anything good to say.)

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But maybe Nolan is changing slightly in this regard.

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Christopher Nolan is one of the only filmmakers who is able to demand a huge budget for a period drama like “Oppenheimer.” How is he able to do that? Well, his films are spectacles that earn hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. And Nolan is able to earn that box office because when people go to buy a ticket for one of his films, they know it’s going to be an epic experience.

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Some shows meet their moment immediately; some slowly build a following, maybe even creating a cult audience. The latter might be the case for “The Curse,” the wild, subversive, uncomfortable, and audacious new Showtime/Paramount+ series. It came out in November, but with episodes arriving only week by week, it’s slowly been building an audience and a word-of-mouth following. And it should as it comes from actor/producer Emma Stone, actor/comedian/filmmaker Nathan Fielder, and filmmaker/actor Benny Safdie, one half of the Safdie Brothers directing duo.

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Isn’t this interesting? Variety reports that Warner Bros. is giving Christopher Nolan‘s 2020 time-looping actioner “Tenet” a re-release in theaters, IMAX and 70mm next month as part of the build-up to “Dune: Part Two” on March 1. “Tenet” will run for one week only starting on February 23 in the US and select international markets with exclusive footage of Denis Villeneuve‘s sequel attached.

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The Directors Guild of America unveiled their final nominees for the 76th DGA Awards and there were few surprises. Making the cut were Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”), Greta Gerwig (“Barbie”), Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”), Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) and Alexander Payne (“The Holdovers”).

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