Christopher Nolan happy with BO collection of 'Tenet', says studios drawing wrong conclusions
The spy thriller saw a staggered release worldwide wherever the cinemas started to open in August.
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Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' was the first big-budget Hollywood feature to go for a theatrical release since the pandemic shut down the cinemas worldwide in March.
LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has said he is happy with the worldwide gross collections of his latest feature "Tenet" but has cautioned that Hollywood studios are "drawing the wrong conclusions" from it.
Nolan's "Tenet" was the first big-budget Hollywood feature to go for a theatrical release since the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down the cinemas worldwide in March.
The spy thriller, which features an ensemble cast of John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh, saw a staggered release worldwide wherever the cinemas started to open in August.
The film has grossed nearly USD 350 million globally in two months, kick-starting a debate about whether it is a disappointing or decent figure during the ongoing health crisis.
During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Nolan said he is "thrilled" by the film's performance at the box office.
"Warner Bros released 'Tenet' and I'm thrilled that it has made almost USD 350 million," Nolan said.
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The director, however, added he is concerned that other studios weren't as impressed by the figure.
"I am worried that the studios are drawing the wrong conclusions from our release -- that rather than looking at where the film has worked well and how that can provide them with much needed revenue, they're looking at where it hasn't lived up to pre-COVID expectations and will start using that as an excuse to make exhibition take all the losses from the pandemic instead of getting in the game and adapting -- or rebuilding our business, in other words," Nolan said.
"Long term, moviegoing is a part of life, like restaurants and everything else. But right now, everybody has to adapt to a new reality," he added.
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Gone are the days when going to the multiplex and ordering a bucket of the extra butter popcorn with diet cola was a weekly affair. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has completely changed our social lives.
Film production houses are trying to read people's minds, and are shuffling the release of their big-banner movie dates. Some producers are hoping to see people make it to the theatres by early 2021, and the rest have made up their minds, after all, about a digital release.
The pandemic continues to impact an ever-changing theatrical release calendar. Here's your updated calendar of what's releasing when.
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Christopher Nolan's directorial 'Tenet', which features Robert Pattinson, John David Washington and our very own Dimple Kapadia (in pic), is set to release on August 26.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the release of the sci-fi thriller was pushed twice. Following the coronavirus outbreak, the movie was pushed to July 31 and then moved to August 12.
In select cities in North America, the movie will release on September 2.
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Director Mahesh Bhatt has decided to release 'Sadak 2' on Disney+ Hotstar on August 28. The Alia Bhatt and Aditya Roy Kapoor-starrer, which will see Pooja Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt reprising their characters, is a sequel 1991 crime drama of the same name.
The details of the plot are not yet known.
Produced by Vishesh Films and Fox Star Studios, the movie was originally scheduled to be released in cinemas on July 10.
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The release of 'Mulan' won't have a theatrical release. Disney announced that the much-delayed live-action remake will now be hitting its streaming service Disney Plus.
The Liu Yifei-starrer will be available for the subscribers of the streamer for a premium rental price of $29.99.
Directed by Niki Caro, the adventure epic was previously scheduled to release on August 21, after being pushed from March to July in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Janelle Monae-starrer 'Antebellum' has plans to ditch the theatre release and go digital. The horror thriller will premiere on premium on-demand platforms on September 18.
The film was previously set for an April release, before being pushed to August 21, and later to an undetermined date due to the closure of movie theatres amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz-directorial debut will feature Monae as author Veronica Henley, who is kidnapped and forced to live out a horrifying reality in which she is an enslaved woman.
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The release of the much-awaited official remake of Tom Hanks's 1994 'Forrest Gump', 'Laal Singh Chaddha', has been moved to Christmas 2021. The movie was slated to hit the theatres on December 25 this year.
The production on the film is still under process.
The comedy-drama film, directed by Advait Chandan and written by Atul Kulkarni, is backed by Aamir Khan Productions along with Viacom18 Motion Pictures. Khan had announced the project in March 2019 on his birthday.
The movie also features Kareena Kapoor Khan and Mona Singh in a pivotal role
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Disney has reshuffled the release of the 'Star Wars' sequels by a year.
The next untitled 'Star Wars' movie that was dated to release on December 16, 2022, will now release on December 22, 2023, while the film after that has been shifted from December 20, 2024 to December 19, 2025. The third untitled film in the franchise will arrive in theatres on December 17, 2027 instead of December 18, 2026.
Other movies like 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' and 'Death on the Nile' will now release on August 28, 2020, and October 23, 2020 respectively.
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Keanu Reeves fans will have to wait longer for the new part of his popular 'John Wick' universe. The fourth part of the franchise was set to hit the big screens on May 21 in 2021, but it was later rescheduled to hit the screens on May 27, 2022.
The movie distributor company, Lionsgate, said that the fourth and fifth instalments of the movie will be shot back-to-back after Reeves is done with his 'Matrix 4' shoot in Berlin.
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Audiences will have to wait it out for a trip to Pandora. Disney decided to pushed all the sequels of James Cameron's 'Avatar' by a year.
The director confirmed on Twitter that the pandemic was preventing the Avatar team from recommencing their virtual production work on stage in Los Angeles. "That work is just as critical to the films as the live-action work," he added.
'Avatar 2' has been moved from December 17, 2021, to December 16, 2022; 'Avatar 3' from December 22, 2023, to December 20, 2024; 'Avatar 4' from December 19, 2025, to December 18, 2026; and 'Avatar 5' from December 17, 2027, to December 22, 2028.
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The third instalment of 'Spider-Man' will now take the spot formerly held by 'Avatar 2'.
Tom Holland's 'Spider-Man 3' was originally supposed to hit the screens on July 16, 2021, but Sony had delayed it to November 5, 2021.
The sequel to Sony Pictures Animations's 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' is currently slated for October 7, 2022, after it was delayed six months earlier this year.
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