A few days ago came the report that China is planning to re-open movie theaters in low-risk areas according to the China Film Association. The July 20th reopening date comes with several health and safety measures, the most unique of which being movies released in China can’t run more than two hours in an effort […]
And unless it cuts over half an hour from the runtime it will be barred from release in China
With Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” pulled from its mid-August global release, we learned last week the new plan now is to likely open in global markets and States safe enough to show the film first and then roll it out in areas that are able to get their pandemic under control. Then earlier this morning, eagle […]
Warners seems hellbent on taking a financial hit on Tenet as they push ever onwards with constantly shifting release dates. They have no overhauled the release schedule to stagger releasing the film with it now opening on:
26 August 2020
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the UK
27 August 2020
Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Lebanon, Malaysia, Middle East, New Zealand, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates.
28 August 2020
East Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Vietnam
02 September 2020
U.S.A.
03 September 2020
Kuwait and Qatar
10 September 2020
Azerbaijan, CIS Others, Kazakhstan, Russia
18 September 2020
Japan
No Planned Release Currently
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Uruguay and Venezuela.
I still feel like no-ones more hyped for this than Nolan himself. Even pre-COVID it seemed like a tall order to sell this one to the levels needed, the current push is just madness.
Come Aug. 26, virtually all roads in the lucrative U.K. and Ireland cinema market will lead to Christopher Nolan's "Tenet."
Tickets for Tenet are now on sale and Vue have said that sales for the film account for 60% of all UK cinema ticket sales. It's hard to push that as great news though given how low ticket sales are currently so a translation into how the film will do is off the table.
I'm not a massive Nolan fan, his films feel cold and full of grey or cold and full of brown or cold and full of both. With silvery bits.
One thing you can't doubt is that innate, egocentric feeling of gravitas and "importance" his films emit, they're certainly a spectacle at least the first time around.
They just fade on a second viewing, the ones I've seen (I count seven). And I'll say that TENET looks like a funky version of INCEPTION and I quite fancy seeing it.
Once. Just the once.
Anyhoo, would you rather go on a night out in Burton's vision of BATMAN or Nolan's???
It could be the only film I see for the rest of the year but I don't know if to risk Tenet this week. There's a screening that's not too busy by the looks but reviews are fairly meh...
This is a film that's going to be best enjoyed after a couple of viewings. It certainly kept me entertained and it does provide hints but I think it would be very easy to lose track of who is where and in what state. As ever with Mr Nolan's films it looks great and has some cracking action seqeunces. Might catch it again at the cinema seeing as it's so cheap and quiet at the moment.
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