Oppenheimer box office collection day 3: Christopher Nolan’s film eyes Rs 50 cr, breaks record in IMAX format

Oppenheimer box office collection day 3: With its steady, solid collections, the historical drama has now clocked Rs 49 cr in first weekend.

By: Entertainment Desk

Mumbai | Updated: July 24, 2023 09:32 AM IST

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Oppenheimer has released to rave reviews and fantastic box office collections. (Photo: Oppenheimer/Instagram)

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Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is having quite a blast at the Indian box office. The historical drama, which released on Friday and saw an opening of Rs 14.5 crore, earned Rs 17.25 crore on Sunday, according to early estimates reported by industry tracker Sacnilk.

The film’s Sunday collections were similar to that of Saturday, where it had also earned Rs 17 cr. With its steady, solid collections, Oppenheimer’s box office collection for the first weekend stands at Rs 49 crore.

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The numbers, to put in context, are phenomenal, as only franchise or action films usually record such numbers. Tom Cruise’s seventh installment of Mission Impossible, for example, did a business of Rs 63 cr in five days, while Nolan’s latest has almost touched Rs 50 cr mark in three days. The best performing Hollywood film in India this year has been Fast X, which netted Rs 108 cr in its lifetime.

According to box office analyst and consultant Jatinder, Oppenheimer, Barbie (which has clocked Rs 18.50 crore in three days) and Mission Impossible seven have collectively put up one of the best weekends for Hollywood films in the country.

In terms of gross figures, the box office analyst wrote that Oppenheimer was able to clock Rs 60 crore, followed by Barbie which put up Rs 20 crore and then Mission Impossible 7, which earned Rs 14 crore in the last weekend. The total of Rs 94 crore weekend emerged as the fifth best ever for Hollywood in India.

Meanwhile, ticket booking platform BookMyShow reported that 1.4 million tickets have been booked for Oppenheimer and over 500,000 tickets have been sold for Barbie. The two films are breaking records on IMAX format as with 12 am and even 3 am shows running packed.

Starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Florence Pugh, Oppenheimer opened to rave reviews across the world. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J Sherwin. Murphy stars as the titular theoretical physicist, regarded as one of the fathers of the atom bomb.

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