Warner Bros. Pictures removed Christopher Nolan’s Tenent from the 2020 release calendar indefinitely. The film was supposed to launch on August 12.
The move’s a devastating blow to the exhibition industry who needs as many big tentpole films as possible to recover lost funds from the COVID-19 shutdowns. Tenet‘s only one of many film’s to reschedule a release date due to COVID.
The shutdown couldn’t come at a worse time, because late spring and the summer months are the biggest times of the year for theaters.
Tenet dropping from the release schedule is the latest sign that we’re still not out of the woods quite yet.
In a statement, Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich says:
“We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s wholly original and mind-blowing feature.
We are not treating Tenet like a traditional global day-and-date release, and our upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect that.”
Basically, this means that the studio’s not dropping the film globally on the same date.
Rather, the studio will adopt a release schedule coinciding with local health and government officials reopening countries and possibly even city-by-city.
That schedule remains to be seen, but something should drop soon.
Emmerich confirms that the studios are ready to support the exhibition venues saying that theaters will get “new content as soon as they [movie theaters] could safely reopen”.
Warner Bros. also moved the release date of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It to June 4, 2021.
As of this time, there’s no word if Wonder Woman 1984 or the new Dune film will follow suit.
Nolan’s film’s going to be crazy when it finally hits theaters. The trailer hints that this might be a time travel tale, but Robert Pattinson and the synopsis say otherwise.
Check out the synopsis below:
John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet.”
Armed with only one word—Tenet—
and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Not time travel. Inversion.
So, not time travel…inversion (whatever that means). Check out the trailer below:
[Variety]
