{"id":8098,"date":"2020-09-04T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=8098"},"modified":"2020-09-04T05:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:58:21","slug":"tenet-tests-american-appetite-for-coronavirus-movie-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/tenet-tests-american-appetite-for-coronavirus-movie-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenet tests American appetite for coronavirus movie-going"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tenet, starring John David Washington and costing a reported 200 million dollars to make, will be the first big budget release from a Hollywood studio since the coronavirus shuttered theaters in March.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Nolan\u2019s thriller Tenet finally arrives in US movie theaters this weekend, hoping to revive movie going after a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/pandemic-explained-who-novel-coronavirus-covid19-what-is-a-pandemic-6309727\/\">pandemic<\/a>-induced closure of indoor theaters and a dearth of new content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hollywood breathed a sigh of relief last weekend when Tenet brought in a solid $53.6 million in Europe and other markets, suggesting that audiences are hungry for new content and prepared to put up with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/why-social-distancing-in-data-coronavirus-6313355\/\">social distancing<\/a>&nbsp;and masks to see them on big indoor screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the industry is waiting to see if Americans are equally as keen. The Warner Bros. movie, starring John David Washington and costing a reported $200 million to make, will be the first big&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/budget-2020\/\">budget<\/a>&nbsp;release from a Hollywood studio since the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/coronavirus\/\">coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;shuttered theaters in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long wait \u201chas elevated this film to the status of being very important symbolically, culturally and financially. It represents a turning point for the theatrical business which has been sidelined for five months,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"580\" height=\"373\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although movie theaters in New York City and Los Angeles \u2013 the country\u2019s biggest markets \u2013 remain closed, more than half of the nation\u2019s indoor theaters are expected to be open although capacity will be limited to 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AMC Entertainment, America\u2019s biggest movie chain, said it was opening another 140 locations this weekend to put a total of 70% of its theaters back in operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/china-coronavirus-tracker-region-wise-cases-and-deaths\/\">China<\/a>, which is challenging the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/us-coronavirus-tracker-state-wise-cases-deaths-and-recovered-6372450\/\">United States<\/a>&nbsp;as the world\u2019s biggest movie market, is also rolling out Tenet this weekend. It\u2019s the Asian nation\u2019s first release for a major new Hollywood title since January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dergarabedian said US opening weekend box-office expectations for Tenet were fluctuating wildly between $15 million and $30 million. But the film won\u2019t be judged on its first few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know we\u2019re running a marathon, not a sprint, and look forward to long playability for this film,\u201d Toby Emmerich, Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman, said in a statement welcoming last weekend\u2019s results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tenet has little competition. The 2013 baseball film 42 is getting a limited re-release as a tribute to its star Chadwick Boseman, who died last week, but Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged, young adult movie The New Mutants and comedy Bill &amp; Ted Face the Music were released in late August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won\u2019t be until October that audiences get a new superhero movie, with Wonder Woman 1984<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenet, starring John David Washington and costing a reported 200 million dollars to make, will be the first big budget release from a Hollywood studio since the coronavirus shuttered theaters in March. 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