Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” opened with a $20.2 million debut over Labor Day weekend in the U.S. The movie is already nearing the $150 million mark globally, thanks to an impressive European box-office.
With New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles theaters still shut down, they happen to be the three biggest movie markets in the country, “Tenet” launched during the holiday weekend in around 2,800 cinemas, despite only about 65-70% of multiplexes having reopened in the U.S
Warner Bros. has a plan to slowly, but surely, rollout “Tenet” in U.S. theaters on a week-to-week basis, that means that New York and California could eventually screen it, whenever that may be, but with those states’ governors’ refusing to adhere to the rest of the country’s reopening guidelines, albeit for political and/or non-political reasons, then don’t expect those states to all-of-a-sudden see the light next week and reopen, in fact, I’d be shocked if they relent before the November election is over.