The Monthly October 2024
Three things to know. Two trailers to watch. One article to read. Here’s what you need to know for this month.
Why hello there. Welcome to the second edition of The Monthly. October is just about over, so now it’s time to boil the month down to its most important bits of pop culture news.
Three things to know. Two trailers to watch. One article to read.
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3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Nolan sticks with Universal for mysterious next film
A new Christopher Nolan movie is always a big deal. The director has delivered a string of critical and box office hits, launching the Dark Knight Trilogy, diving into dreams with Inception, taking us into the cosmos with Interstellar, showing us the creation of the atomic bomb with Oppenheimer and, um, doing whatever it is he did with Tenet. (Look, I haven’t seen Tenet.)
The news that Nolan has a new movie in the works isn’t a surprise. The fact that Nolan is sticking with Universal Pictures, though, is a bit of a surprise. The director had a long working relationship with Warner Bros. up until the studio began sending their films directly to Max during the pandemic — a massive infraction for Nolan, who is a Cinema guy with a capital C.
Nolan set up Oppenheimer with Universal, which scored a Best Picture Oscar nomination and grossed just shy of $1 billion worldwide for the studio.
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