Neither theaters nor audiences were ready for Barbenheimer

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When Christopher Nolan decided to dump Warner Bros. over its insistence on releasing new films on the small screen during the pandemic, the studio decided to take its revenge, scheduling the release of the first-ever live-action Barbie the same day as Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer. Depending on your perspective, the pettiness of Warner Bros. either backfired or succeeded spectacularly.

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