Advanced bookings began last week and, after just six days, the film had become the biggest pre-release seller RIYADH: Movie director Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited summer blockbuster “Oppenheimer” has broken the 2023 record for advanced ticket sales in Saudi Arabia, according to figures. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @arabnews.lifestyle Advanced bookings began last week and, after just six days, the film had become the biggest pre-release seller, the Kingdom’s largest exhibitors revealed. Written and directed by Oscar-nominee Nolan, who shot the film specifically for IMAX screens, “Oppenheimer” charts the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer who was pivotal in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. “We put a lot of effort into shooting the film in a way that we can get it out on these large-format screens. It really is just a great way of giving people an experience that they can’t possibly get at home,” Nolan told the Associated Press. The movie stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer and Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist, and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar winner Matt Damon portrays Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the US Atomic Energy Commission, alongside Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, and Josh Hartnett as pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. “Oppenheimer” will be released in cinemas in Saudi Arabia on July 20.