Barbie and Oppenheimer's Box Office Is Proof Studios Need to Make a Fair Deal

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Barbie and Oppenheimer opened this weekend, and crossing theater aisles for both films was a cultural phenomenon; Barbenheimer.

Elon Musk riffed on Oppenheimer's iconic quote to declare a meme war on Tesla short sellers. They still won't give up, he says.

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Elon Musk.

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Who was Lewis Strauss, the villain played by Robert Downey Jr. who tried to frame J. Robert Oppenheimer as a communist?

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Lewis Strauss arrives at London Airport for a tour of British atomic energy plants, April 21, 1955.

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Open Channel: Tell Us Your Thoughts on Barbie

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2023 has been a pretty big year for movies, but not many of this year’s blockbusters have quite the hype behind them that Barbie’s had.

'Barbie' blows up 'Oppenheimer' as Greta Gerwig's plastic fantastic looks set to make $100 million more than Christopher Nolan's atomic blockbuster this weekend

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The science you should understand before seeing 'Oppenheimer'

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Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb.

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Why 'Barbenheimer' might not be enough to fuel a movie-stock rally

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The highly anticipated debut of Barbie and Oppenheimer may not fuel a movie stock rally.

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The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored

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Maria Goeppert Mayer worked on the Manhattan Project and later won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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This exclusive chart reveals why the groundswell of buzz around 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' could help reverse Hollywood's box-office doldrums in spite of the actors' strike

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Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie as Ken and Barbie in "Barbie."

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Oppenheimer went into a deep depression after reading about the effects of the atomic bomb on Japan and even publicly spoke out against using the bomb

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1950.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1950.

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