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Christopher Nolan is moving to Universal for his next movie, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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00:00Christopher Nolan is moving to Universal.

00:03After shopping around his next feature project,

00:06The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Nolan's upcoming World War II film

00:10about scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer,

00:12who is considered one of the fathers of the atom bomb,

00:15has landed at Universal.

00:17The filmmaker's longtime home, Warner Brothers,

00:19was set to be in talks for the project, as well as Sony and Paramount.

00:23Nearly all of Nolan's films since 2002's Insomnia

00:26have been released by Warner Brothers,

00:27save for The Prestige, which was distributed by Disney,

00:31and Interstellar, which saw Warner's and Paramount

00:33splitting up international and domestic rights, respectively.

00:36The move comes after Nolan, a strong proponent of the theatrical experience,

00:40spoke out last year against Warner Brothers' decision

00:42to send its 2021 slate day and date to HBO Max,

00:46saying,

00:46Some of our industry's biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars

00:50went to bed the night before,

00:52thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio,

00:54and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service.

00:58Nolan generated box office billions with the Dark Knight trilogy

01:01and earned his first Best Director Oscar nomination

01:04for his previous World War II film, Dunkirk.

01:07He was last seen in theaters with Tenet,

01:09which Warner Brothers released exclusively in theaters a year ago

01:13amid the coronavirus pandemic,

01:14where it grossed just $58.4 million domestically

01:18amid a theatrical landscape diminished by the pandemic.

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