Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus,” “Oppenheimer” is a character study about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy plays the man who led the action at Los Alamos, alongside an ensemble of Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh and Alden Ehrenreich.
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“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”, starring Tom Cruise, took third place, tumbling by 64% with $19.5 million in its second weekend of release.
In fourth place, “Sound of Freedom” added $18.8 million from 3,285 theaters in its fourth weekend of release. The thriller about child sex trafficking has generated $124 million to date, making it the 14th-highest grossing domestic release of the year.
Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” rounded out the top five, bringing in $6.7 million. After four weeks on the big screen, Harrison Ford’s movie has grossed $159 million domestically and $335 million worldwide.