While almost every movie has fled the release schedule until the end of Summer, if not well into next year, one film is holding course – Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet”.
Currently slated for mid-late July, the time-travel espionage thriller is the first tentpole scheduled to arrive on the release schedule with exhibitors labelling it, Niki Caro’s “Mulan” and Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman 1984” as the films that will hopefully help revive their currently shutdown sector.
But is the big budget film risking people’s health by pushing for cinemas to re-open? A big proponent of theatrical exhibition and the “collective human engagement” that comes with it, Nolan himself appealed to Congress to aid cinemas after they were forced to close their doors.
In a recent earnings conference call with IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond, it has also been revealed that it’s Nolan and not the studio who is the one pushing for his film to maintain its July release date and not be delayed. Gelfond says: “I don’t know anyone in America who is pushing harder than Chris Nolan to have the theaters open and to have his movie released in July when it’s scheduled for.”
It has been confirmed that the film’s post-production has continued throughout the lockdown with IMAX using a number of remote tools in their workflows to ensure key staff members can report to work and keep Nolan’s film on track for its July release.
For now Nolan is getting his way, even as the global pandemic isn’t really slowing down for now either in the U.S. or around the world overall.
Source: CBM
