Christopher Nolan movie ‘Tenet’ to open July 31 as industry seeks rebound

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Director Christopher Nolan’s thriller “Tenet” will debut in cinemas on July 31, distributor Warner Bros. said on Friday, the to start with new blockbuster in months for movie theaters that need clean films to entice audiences following pandemic-related closures.

Theaters are setting up to reopen all over the world considering that heading dim in mid-March to help slow the distribute of the novel coronavirus. Cinema operators hope “Tenet” and other blockbusters will help generate a late-summertime rebound.

The “Tenet” release day declared Friday is two months afterwards than the earlier prepared July 17 debut. But Warner Bros., a device of AT&T Inc, confirmed that 1 of the year’s most highly expected videos will not face a lengthier delay as lots of in Hollywood feared.

Warner Bros. postponed another summertime release, “Wonder Girl 1984” to October from August. Walt Disney Co’s action epic “Mulan” is scheduled to reach theaters July 24.

“Tenet” is a massive spending budget, science-fiction spy movie starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson from the British director of hits like “The Dim Knight Rises” and “Inception.” Little has been revealed about the plot.

“We’re specially thrilled, in this complex and promptly transforming natural environment, to be bringing Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet,’ a world wide tentpole of jaw-dropping dimension, scope and scale, to theaters around the entire world on July 31,” Warner Bros. Photo Group Chairman Toby Emmerich said.

“It’s been lengthier than any of us could’ve imagined considering that we have viewed a movie on the massive display,” Emmerich included.

Studios need as lots of areas open as attainable to make back again their investments in massive-spending budget videos. Theater attendance will be minimal to enforce social-distancing necessities, and it is unclear how relaxed audiences will be to return to cinemas.

Big theater operators which include AMC Leisure Holdings and Cineworld Group Plc have said they expect most of their areas all over the world to be open in July.