Cinemark Theaters Have Largest Box Office Month in Company History (2023) | Milestones | Jul 31, 2023
The solid box office performance of Cinemark Theaters’ July 2023 releases, including Barbie, Oppenheimer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Sound of Freedom, among others, helped the month break records for the theater chain. The July 2023 domestic box office performance was the company’s highest-grossing month in company history. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, ….
The Manhattan Project Ends with Trinity Test Atomic Detonation (1945) | Milestones | Jul 16, 1945
The Manhattan Project concluded on July 16, 1945, with the Trinity Test, the first successful detonation of an atomic device. Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer dubbed the test “Trinity,” inspired loosely by a sonnet by John Donne, “Batter my heart, three person’d God…” The Trinity Test took place on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing ….
Oppenheimer (2023) | Firsts, U.S. Theatrical Releases | Jul 21, 2023
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who risks destroying the world in order to save it. Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar winner ….