25M and 8 IM would get it to 200M but that's like an extreeeeeme outlier unless it can keep pace and rise and it turns out to be somehow more backloaded
The highest grossing OW without IMAX is actually The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)—$142.8M—btw! Mockingjay part 1 is the last 100M opener without IMAX.
I agree but the point about Oppenheimer is right, people who thought it would win in the first place were insane but it could be Nolan's biggest opening outside the Dark Knight trilogy while being his first R-rated film in 2 decades.
Yeah, Nolan is very popular here. They had 5 shows of interstellar in a 630 person theatre and they all sold out. They're also showing all his movies from Batman Begins onward from 17-20 as a part of the 'Nolan Film Festival' that the biggest theatre chain is holding.
I think they were more talking about how, in public sentiment, Margot isn't being seen as a serious contender for anything whereas everyone is just raving about Gosling
he probably said 180 for the dramatic effect
"180M, 180 minutes"
Who knows what he's including and what he's not whether its with tax credits, with marketing, just production, etc