Analyst Calls 'Tenet' Domestic Box Office "Positive Indicator of Demand"

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Bury Council has spent just a tiny fraction of its budget to fix potholes over the past year as road workers were diverted to cover staff shortages on bin collection rounds.

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David Byrne makes an appearance as a doctor in the latest trailer for Amy Schumer’s forthcoming dramedy Life & Beth.The Hulu series airs on March 18, and stars Schumer as a woman going through a midlife crisis as she approaches 40.In the first trailer, which you can see below, Byrne is briefly seen telling Schumer’s character that “sometimes, mental pain manifests in our body,” before operating an MRI scan.Elsewhere, she is seen out clubbing, going through a break-up with her boyfriend, played by Kevin Kane, returning to her parents’ home in the countryside, and kindling a romance with a farm worker played by Michael Cera.The show also stars Yamaneika Saunders, Jon Glaser, Jonathan Groff and Michael Rapaport. It will be broadcast on Disney+ internationally, including in the UK.The series will mark Schumer’s first on-screen appearance since the much-acclaimed indie drama film The Humans, which was released last September, and her first regular starring role on TV since Inside Amy Schumer, which concluded in 2016.Byrne recently announced plans for a new immersive theatre show in Denver in collaboration with the neuroscientist Mala Gaonkar.

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Imax CEO Richard Gelfond touted the recent theatrical release of Christopher Nolan's Tenetwhile pouring water on the premium VOD window for Hollywood blockbuster releases during an investor conference appearance on Wednesday. "Where it was safe and there was capacity, it did extremely well," Gelfond said of the Tenettheatrical rollout during a session at the Communacopia Conference that was webcast.Gelfond pointed to big business for Tenet at the multiplex overseas, including in China, but was less bullish about the North American play for the Warner Bros.

The disastrous debut of Warner Bros’ spy thriller “Tenet” at movie theaters has Hollywood studios fingering the panic button. “Tenet” — a $200 million Christopher Nolan production which has amassed less than $30 million in ticket sales since it hit US theaters on Sept. 3 — has given Tinseltown a wakeup call, with studios grappling with whether to release their remaining blockbusters this year or hold them until the coronavirus crisis wanes. “Studios are making decisions based on what’s happening with ‘Tenet,’” said MKM partners analyst Eric Handler.

lifted restrictions on movie theaters. Mike Sodano, who owns both venues, says that even though he can turn on the marquee lights again after dimming them for roughly six months, he’s hesitant to start welcoming back customers.“Movie theaters need three things to sustain themselves,” says Sodano.

Naman Ramachandran Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” topped U.K. and Ireland box office charts for the third weekend in a row, collecting $1.58 million (£1,233,090) from 612 locations for Warner Bros.

The numbers are still coming in for Tenet. The Christopher Nolan film brought in USD 6.7 million domestically over the weekend for a total of USD 29.5 million thus far in its U.S.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineChristopher Nolan’s “Tenet” crossed the $200 million mark globally, propped up by overseas grosses while U.S. cinemas struggle to draw audiences during the coronavirus pandemic.The time-bending sci-fi thriller generated $6.7 million in the U.S.

to travel to adjacent counties or states if theaters are not open in their local area.But the lack of theaters in major markets is starting to catch up to “Tenet,” which is a possible factor in why Warner Bros. chose to push back the release of “Wonder Woman 1984” from early October to Christmas Day.

The numbers are still coming in for Tenet.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRefresh for updates: Warner Bros. and Sony have unveiled their box office numbers for all the world, and town, to finally see this weekend with respectively Tenet counting a running domestic box office gross to date of $29.5M domestic and $200M+ WW, and Tri-Star’s The Broken Hearts Gallery opening to  $1.125M stateside at 2,204 theaters in 4th place.Over 3-days in its second weekend, Tenet made $6.7M, -29% off last weekend’s Labor Day 3-day of 2,910 locations, up by 100 venues (when you do the math was $9.4M last weekend, not $11.2M as some thought).

When reports came in that “Tenet” had made $20 million at the domestic box office, the conversation obviously focused on how difficult it is to analyze the performance of a $200 million-budgeted blockbuster in the middle of a pandemic. But soon it came clear that the numbers weren’t what they seem.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAs if there weren’t any bigger problems in the world during a pandemic, but, yes, Warner Bros. and Sony are shielding their box office hourly figures from rival studios in Comscore on their respective releases Tenet and The Broken Hearts Gallery. We’ve known about this for a while, but it’s becoming a bigger deal now as the blackout was only expected to last a week for Warner Bros, and now it’s extended into a second weekend with Sony joining in.Comscore is the data crossways between exhibitors and distributors.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlinePeople who closely follow box office earnings have noticed a surprising lack of transparency surrounding ticket sales for “Tenet,” the $200 million-budgeted sci-fi epic from director Christopher Nolan that released last weekend in U.S. theaters.Since “Tenet” premiered, Warner Bros., the studio behind the film, has parceled out carefully selected breadcrumbs of data to reporters and rival studios.

Disney's Mulan is off to a low-key start at China's theatrical box office, a market where it was once expected to be a sure-fire blockbuster. Mulan had pulled in just $4.4 million (30 million RMB) as of 5 p.m., Beijing time, Friday, according to data from local box office tracker Artisan Gateway.

After speculation, rumors, and then early reports, it appears that “Wonder Woman 1984” is actually getting delayed. But we still don’t have any idea when it will arrive in theaters.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBaz Luhrmann’s Warner Bros. Elvis movie is back on track, and will resume filming on Sept.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: With New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco movie theaters still not open, our exhibition sources are hearing that Warner Bros is apt to move Wonder Woman 1984 again, this time out of its current October 2 date to either sometime in November or possibly to late December. That would bump the studio’s Legendary feature Dune out of its December 18 weekend to sometime in 2021.Tenet is another reason why Wonder Woman 1984 won’t be able to go during the first weekend of October.

AT&T CFO John Stephens masked up and went to the movie theater to enjoy Warner Bros.’ “Tenet,” the Christopher Nolan film currently dominating both the box office and industry buzz.“I couldn’t have imagined being able to see that and enjoy it in the same way here in my home,” the telecom and entertainment company senior executive vice president said on Wednesday.“We understand the distribution model is going to evolve,” Stephens said at the Bank of America Media, Communications & Entertainment conference.Amid the coronavirus shutdown, WarnerMedia released “Scoob!” on HBO Max, for one local example.“So we’re going to continue to look at it, but in no way do I want to imply that we’re not going to continue to work with those theater owners,”

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorGood news for those in Los Angeles: Going to see Tenet just got closer.Orange County, Calif. has moved from the purple to the red tier in the state’s coronavirus monitoring system, which means that  movie theaters and restaurants for indoor dining can reopen at 25% capacity as well as churches for indoor worship.

Ann Sarnoff, CEO of Warner Bros., insists bosses at the studio had no plans to release Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Tenet straight to premium video on demand (PVOD).The highly anticipated time-twisting spy thriller is now playing in theatres worldwide and, despite rumors claiming that Nolan was controlling the studio’s decisions regarding the release of the film, Sarnoff insists there’s no truth in the speculation.“It’s overstated. Let me share with you the process that we went through,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The back and forth messiness between actor Ray Fisher and Warner Bros. regarding the third-party investigation into abuse on the set of “Justice League” continues.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorRefresh for latest…: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet added a further estimated $58.1M at the international box office this weekend, taking the overseas cume on the Warner Bros title to $126M after two sessions. With the time-bending film debuting in the U.S.

In the face of the ongoing pandemic, Warner Bros. “Tenet” is meeting tempered expectations with an estimated $20 million 4-day opening at the U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRefresh for updates: Warner Bros. long-awaited Christopher Nolan movie Tenet finally opened in the U.S., and together with its Canadian run, which began last weekend rang up $20.2M.Since movie theaters closed down nationwide due to the pandemic, in particular, the top 3 big circuits, Tenet has long been heralded as the comeback of theaters, the tentpole that will get exhibition back on its feet.There is no context for these numbers, as it’s not your typical Labor Day weekend release.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWhen I was a kid growing up in Brattleboro, VT, I had to wait months for a big Hollywood movie to come to town.One of the big year-end holiday movies of 1980 was Paramount’s Robin Williams pic Popeye, but it didn’t come to my town’s Art-Deco historical landmark theater, the Latchis until Easter weekend.This weekend, the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, which caters to a population of 12K, had Warner Bros.’ Christopher Nolan’s Tenet first, before Hollywood, the movie capital of the world. Such was the nature of big Hollywood films of the 1970s and early 1980s: They’d open NYC, LA and big city markets, and gradually make their way to the sticks.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaChristopher Nolan’s “Tenet” will cross the $100 million mark internationally on Saturday. The twisty thriller has made just over $20 million in China so far this weekend.The Chinese historical war epic “The Eight Hundred” is currently jockeying with “Tenet” for first place at the box office in the Middle Kingdom.

In some ways, the entirety of the film industry discourse revolves around Warner Bros. over the next month.