Alfred Hitchcock Ben Hecht consulted Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology about the development of a uranium bomb. Selznick complained that the notion was "science fiction", only to be confronted by the news of the detonation of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945. Hitchcock formed an independent production company, Transatlantic Pictures, with his friend Sidney Bernstein. He made two films with Transatlantic, one of which was his first colour film. With "Rope" (1948), Hitchcock experimented with marshalling suspense in a confined environment, as he had done earlier with "Lifeboat" (1944). The film appears to
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (film) Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray release on December 18, 2018. As of December 16, 2018, "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" has grossed $68.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $62 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $130.5 million, against a production budget of $42 million. In the United States and Canada, "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" was released alongside "Assassination Nation", "Life Itself" and "Fahrenheit 11/9", and was projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,592 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $7.8 million on its first