Christopher Nolan’s Tenet Release Is Now Delayed Indefinitely
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More grim news for the American theater industry today, as Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, intended to serve as a starting gun of sorts for the return of blockbuster cinema to theaters, has been delayed by Warner Bros. yet again—this time without an immediately announced new date. Both the studios and theaters are clearly facing a reckoning, driven by surging cases of COVID-19 as states backpedal on their reopening plans. Notably, there’s still no timetable for when theaters in the country’s two biggest film markets, New York City and L.A., will be open.
Tenet was originally supposed to open on July 17, but was then pushed back twice to Aug. 12, with small, incremental changes to the release date that were clearly the result of wishful thinking on Warners’ part. This latest change seems to be different—Tenet has been removed from its Aug. 12 release date, and another date has not been announced. Instead, the studio says it will share that date “imminently.”
“We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s wholly original and mind-blowing feature,” said Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich in a statement. “We are not treating Tenet like a traditional global day-and-date release, and our upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect that.”