Two days of previews for Warner Bros.’ much-anticipated “Tenet” showed a sign of promise over the weekend.
But a rising tide of coronavirus infections is now crushing the life out of the South Korean box office.Korea was the first place in the world to screen “Tenet” commercially.
The Christopher Nolan-directed “Tenet” earned $368,000 on Saturday and a further $347,000 on Sunday from previews on some 590 screens.
On both days it ranked second behind “Deliver Us From Evil,” a local hitman thriller in its third week of release, but with more than two times as many screens.Over the three days from Friday to Sunday, “Deliver” earned $1.41 million for a cumulative score of $30.6 million.
Korean comedy, “Ok! Madam” earned $812,000 for a two-week cumulative of $8.58 million, with “Tenet” third on $715,000.But the box office careers of all titles now look to be affected as measures to control the latest virus resurgence take effect.
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