Tag: Tenet
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With ‘Tenet’ at $53 Million, Believe the Hype: Initial International Box Office Is Strong
Warner Bros. reported that Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” grossed around $53 million in 41 territories outside the U.S., including Canada. Initial reporting largely reflects a five-day take, with most screenings starting on August 26. It’s a good start; initial lowball expectations were around $40 million.In a statement, Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich took pains…
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Box Office: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Enjoys Surprisingly Strong Debut Overseas
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” launched internationally this weekend, generating a surprisingly robust $53 million debut despite the ongoing pandemic.The sci-fi epic, long pegged as the film that would restart moviegoing after prolonged cinema closures, had the strongest start in the United Kingdom, where it made $7.1 million. “Tenet” launched in 41 international markets this weekend, including…
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‘Tenet’ Approaching $40 Million+ Opening Overseas, While ‘New Mutants’ Scares With $8 Million Opening At The Domestic Box Office
Despite thousands of theaters both in the U.S. and abroad still closed, the biggest movies of the summer are making big first impressions at the box office, as moviegoing resumes in North America and blockbusters return to the screen.Read More: Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Believe He’s “Saving” Film With ‘Tenet’: “Cinema Is Bigger Than Any One…
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‘Tenet’ gets release dates for Latin America, India
International release underway.Warner Bros executives have dated Tenet across Latin America – currently among the worst-hit Covid-19 regions in the world where cinemas are slowly reopening.Christopher Nolan’s film has begun its release in a large swathe of the international arena this week and is scheduled to land in the US and China on September 3…
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‘Tenet’ Korea Box Office Weakens, Releases Delayed as Virus Surges
Hollywood blockbuster “Tenet” opened on top of the Korean box office, but its performance is declining as the coronavirus makes a comeback in the country. Releases of other films, including “Mulan,” are now being postponed or halted.Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” began its commercial career in the world’s fourth largest theatrical market on Wednesday earning $596,000 from…
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Daily Podcast: Justice League, AppleTV+, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Lord of the Rings, Nutty Professor, Powerpuff Girls, and Tenet
On the August 26, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Justice League, AppleTV+, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Lord of the Rings, nutty Professor, Powerpuff Girls, and Tenet. In The News: Ben:…
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‘Tenet’ Audiences in U.K., France Embrace Thriller, Even in Quiet Early Screenings
London’s Leicester Square, a bustling area best known for its glitzy film premieres, was eerily quiet on Wednesday morning. Flashy billboards for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” lit up the adjacent Odeon and Cineworld venues, but audience members were in short supply.Cineworld claimed one of the earliest London showings of the film with a 10 a.m. 2D…
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Face masks, time travel and James Bond auditions: discuss Tenet with spoilers
Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster creates a palindromic origami of bizarre physics inside an 007-style thriller. If you’ve seen it, what did you think?Charged with the twin missions of kickstarting cinemagoing post-lockdown and out-Nolanning every previous Christopher Nolan movie, Tenet carries a lot on its shoulders. The fact that it made it into cinemas is an…
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Tom Cruise Went To A Crowded Cinema To Watch ‘Tenet’: “Big Movie. Big Screen. Loved It.”
I have yet to see “Tenet,” but I’m pretty sure Tom Cruise isn’t in it. And unless Christopher Nolan is really Tom Cruise in a “Mission: Impossible”-style mask, then the actor didn’t direct it, either. So, why is Cruise, someone who doesn’t necessarily take to social media often to talk about his love of specific…
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International box office: ‘Greenland’, ‘Unhinged’ soak up audiences; market braces for ‘Tenet’
‘Tenet’ played previews at the weekend in Australia and South Korea, and on Monday in France.While Tenet does not officially release until this Wednesday (August 26), the highly anticipated Warner Bros release played previews at the weekend in Australia and South Korea, and on Monday (August 24) in France.Warner Bros put a block on the…