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Monday 7 SepteMber 2020
'Tenet' tallies $20.2M as Americans step back into theaters

By JAKE COYLE latest time-bender. Mov-
AP Film Writer iegoers gave the thriller,
NEW YORK (AP) — In a lit- starring John David Wash-
mus test for American mov- ington, Robert Pattinson
iegoing in the pandemic, and Elizabeth Debicki, a "B"
Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" CinemaScore, the lowest
brought in an estimated grade for a Nolan release
$20.2 million through the since 2006's "The Prestige."
holiday weekend in U.S. Reviews (75% positive on
and Canadian theaters. Rotten Tomatoes) have
The result could be greet- been good but far from
ed as either the rejuve- overwhelming.
nation of U.S. cinemas — Warner Bros. declined to
more Americans went to make executives available
the movies this weekend to discuss the opening but
than they have in nearly said in a statement that
six months — or a reflec- "Tenet" had to be judged
tion of drastically lowered differently. "We are in un-
standards for Hollywood's precedented territory, so
top blockbusters given the any comparisons to the
circumstances. pre-COVID world would be
About 70% of U.S. movie inequitable and baseless,"
theaters are currently open; said the studio.
those in the country's top This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Robert Pattinson, left, and John David Analyzing the film's perfor-
markets, Los Angeles and Washington in a scene from "Tenet." Associated Press mance was virtually im-
New York, remain closed. possible, said senior media
Theaters that are operating lower than in the U.S., be- with $30 million in ticket $200 million to make and at analyst Paul Dergarabe-
are limiting audiences to a gan showing "Tenet" a sales from Friday to Mon- least $100 million to market, dian for data firm Com-
maximum of 50% capac- week earlier. The film de- day. Internationally, "Tenet" will need to get close to score. He acknowledged
ity to distance moviego- buted stateside with nightly has exceeded expecta- $500 million to break even. North America remains a
ers from one another. "Te- preview screenings Mon- tions. In two weeks of re- In the film's favor: It current- more challenged market-
net" played in 2,810 North day through Wednesday lease, its overseas total is ly has the big screen almost place than Europe or Asia,
American locations, about before the official opening $126 million, with a global entirely to itself. Some mul- but called it a solid start in
three-fourths of what most on Thursday. Warner Bros. tally thus far of $146.2 mil- tiplexes played "Tenet" as what will be lengthy run for
major releases typically included all of the above lion. Warner Bros. has em- many as 100 times over the "Tenet."
launch in. in its estimated gross Sun- phasized that the usual weekend. With little else on "It's going to take a longer
Warner Bros. declined to day, along with expected opening-weekend calculus the horizon, Warner Bros. is time to assess this," said
split up U.S. and Canadian returns for Monday's Labor is out the window. Few on- counting on a long run for Dergarabedian. "The win is
box office receipts. The- Day. lookers felt it was possible to "Tenet." just to have movies open.
aters in Canada, where "Tenet" opened stronger gauge how "Tenet" would Not in the film's favor: Au- To me, that says a lot."
COVID-19 cases are much in China. It debuted there open. The film, which cost diences didn't love Nolan's Disney on Sunday didn't
share digital returns for
Another Marx (his daughter) gets Venice Film Fest spotlight "Mulan" — a practice that's
been common among
streaming companies and
activist and women's rights says so much about the
campaigner who wrote way we are," she said. To previous anticipated VOD
the first English translation hammer home the cur- releases like Universal's
of Flaubert's "Madame rent-day relevance of that "Trolls World Tour" and Dis-
Bovary." But Italian direc- dichotomy, the film's score ney's own "Hamilton." But
tor Susanna Nicchiarelli includes punk rock music "Mulan" is also playing in
also sought to highlight and Nicchiarelli spliced in theaters in some overseas
the less-than-empowered archival footage of 20th- territories. It began with
side of Miss Marx, who for century labor protests to $5.9 million in Thailand, Tai-
years tolerated her louse "whip the audience into wan, the Middle East, Sin-
of a partner as he cheat- this insistence" that the is- gapore and Malaysia. Next
ed on her, squandered sues Marx fought for still week, it debuts theatrically
her money and otherwise haven't been resolved, in its most important mar-
humiliated her. "The focus Garai said. "The wheel of ket: China.q
was on the dichotomy be- history has turned through
Director Susanna Nicchiarelli poses for photographers upon tween the public activism the 20th century, but the Solution Sudoku
arrival at the premiere of the film 'Miss Marx' during the 77th
edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, and her public beliefs and same conversation about
Sept. 5, 2020. the inconsistency with her the dynamic around capi-
Associated Press private relationship," said talism and who benefits
By NICOLE WINFIELD competition films directed Romola Garai, who plays from it is the same," said
Associated Press by women. One of them, Eleanor in the film. "We Garai, who said she first
VENICE (AP) — There's "Miss Marx," certainly are left to wonder why learned about Eleanor
been a lot of talk about backs that trend. and how human beings Marx's contribution to la-
gender parity, feminism The historical drama pro- can be so eloquent on the bor and feminist causes
and equality at the Ven- files Karl Marx's youngest one hand, and that can working on the 2015 British
ice Film Festival this year, daughter, Eleanor, an in- so not enter your psyche historical drama "Sufrag-
with nearly half the in- novative British-born social on the other hand." "That ette." q Puzzle on Page 13