Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” has just had its third weekend in international cinemas and second in the United States, in the process passing the $200 million mark worldwide. However clearer numbers are now coming out painting a rather dire picture for exhibition as a whole.
Following reports of the studio shielding domestic grosses for the film the other day, further numbers have now been released. The film’s second weekend haul has been revealed to be $6.7 million in the U.S. and Canada during its second weekend of release, a number that reportedly represents a 29% drop compared to the Friday-Sunday period of its opening weekend.
Working back from that, it’s now confirmed that the film’s Friday-Sunday domestic haul last weekend came in at around $9.5 million with the other $10.5 million earned coming from Monday-Thursday previews and the holiday Monday. Domestically the film ends the weekend just shy of $30 million domestically and $177 million internationally with $50 million of that coming from China.
With a $200 million production budget, the movie will have to make at least $400-450 million at the global box-office to break even. Whether it will hit that mark will be determined in coming weeks.
Source: Deadline
