Studio Insider Believes That If TENET Is Delayed, We Won't See New Movies In Theaters Until Christmas

Studio Insider Believes That If TENET Is Delayed, We Won't See New Movies In Theaters Until Christmas

The hope is that Tenet will be released in theaters this July, but a studio insider has claimed that if Warner Bros. delays it, that could be it for new movies until Christmas rolls around. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - May 15, 2020 04:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: The Washington Post

Christopher Nolan is keen for Tenet to arrive in theaters as planned in mid-July, but we've heard a lot of conflicting stories about whether it will actually be possible. Right now, it's looking highly likely that theaters in major markets like New York and Los Angeles won't be open by then, and that alone could result in Warner Bros. pushing the movie to later in 2020 or 2021. 

That might not sound like the end of the world, but a report from The Washington Post points to that decision being something which could have major ramifications for the entire film industry.

An anonymous studio executive weighed in the fallout of Tenet potentially being delayed, and believe that such a move could halt any theatrical releases until Christmas. "If Tenet doesn’t come out or doesn’t succeed, every other company goes home. It’s no movies until Christmas."

That's a crazy thought, and one which could spell doom for everything from Mulan to Black Widow

Disney CEO Bob Chapek has indicated that the studio is going to use Tenet to help them decide what to do about Mulan, and what will be really interesting is whether we suddenly see a wave of VOD releases as a result of this. Alternatively, it could just lead to more delays and 2020 movies hitting in 2021.

Right now, it's hard to say either way, but we'll keep you guys updated as soon as we hear more!

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TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 5/15/2020, 5:05 AM
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. If you moved a movie from July why couldn’t you try in October and November? Why would that automatically mean December?
JDL
JDL - 5/15/2020, 12:07 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - October is a bad month for anything but horror movies and has no holidays when school is out. November is slightly better with Thanksgiving but has nowhere near the potential of the last two weeks of December.

If they do move it they have a scheduled unannounced date on Nov 20 which weirdly is also the date for their G vs. K. If that doesn't work then they will have to either move Dune or hope there are enough free screens left for Tenet.
JohnnyAssCheeks
JohnnyAssCheeks - 5/15/2020, 2:36 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - I hope this COVID thing destroys Hollywood.


The only upsetting part is the collateral damage it'll have on great filmmakers like Christopher Nolan. That's the only sad part.

But Hollywood, the public's fascination with celebrity, all the pointless glitz and glam of the industry, it all needs to DIE!

For a long time, I use to dream of how I would destroy Hollywood if I could. I thought the only way was to infiltrate the industry and destroy it from the inside, which would've been near impossible to accomplish. I never thought a pandemic would be the perfect solution.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 5/15/2020, 3:15 PM
@JohnnyAssCheeks -
JohnnyAssCheeks
JohnnyAssCheeks - 7/5/2020, 8:06 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - I stand by what I said. F**k Hollywood
Rmcbride7349
Rmcbride7349 - 5/15/2020, 5:16 AM
Yeah I don’t buy that. At the rate things are opening back up in the US I think there’s still a good chance we could see theaters open in July. And if he’s right and we don’t see new movies until Christmas, that would such a disaster for both theaters and studios it’s hard to comprehend how either they could survive. The theater chains definitely can’t survive that long without making any profit and the studios borrow money to make these movies so they need they need to start paying back their debts ASAP, or the interest payments alone could cripple them.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 5/15/2020, 5:19 AM
I wonder if movies start going to the VOD route will their budgets go down? It’s going to be hard to clear 500 million or a billion dollars using that platform.
MuadDib
MuadDib - 5/15/2020, 5:25 AM
I’ll say it AGAIN, until there’s a vaccine, 12-18 months maybe even LONGER, nothing is going back to normal!

I don’t understand what these studio executives are thinking or who they’re listening to. Ignore Trump, he said this would be gone by April, it was nothing to worry about. He said we had 15 cases and it would soon be zero.

Dr. Fauci has been consistent all along.

Speaking for myself only, but I would imagine a vast majority of ppl, movies aren’t more important than my life. Shocker!

You won’t be seeing ppl pack into theaters to watch anything until it’s SAFE!

So the choices are, VOD, or wait till 2021-2022 but the schedules gonna be jam packed if everyone hold back and try’s to launch at the same time.

Herd immunity isn’t reached till 70% of the population is infected and has antibodies. That won’t happen anytime soon, unless we completely remove all restrictions and let everyone get infected. But that would lead to 600,000 dead at a MINIMUM. Worst case we’re taking over a MILLION dead.

So back to the topic at hand, will any movie make truck loads of money opening in theaters anytime before there’s a vaccine? Well class?

That’s right, the answer is NO! Bc staying a live and healthy is more important that watching the latest blockbuster movie! Smh 🤦🏻‍♂️

It’s not that hard a concept to grasp!

CharleyBologna
CharleyBologna - 5/15/2020, 8:04 AM
@MuadDib - Long time lurker, first-time poster. This comment was just too much, so I created an account.

We have an infection rate far, far higher than we knew, growing daily as more get access to testing. We are finding that the vast majority of infected are asymptomatic. The death rate of those who are ill is very low. The illness and death rate for the healthy, non-elderly is minuscule and is vanishing as we learn just how many are really infected.

We are destroying our economy and - most importantly - our lives out of fear for an illness that only affects the most vulnerable, who are at-risk for every other serious illness. Yes, including Influenza. Also including Pneumonia. They should be protected from COVID just as they are protected from those other illnesses. The rest of us, just need to move on with life.

And I'll add that this modern version of quarantining just doesn't work. You think Roy Horn wasn't quarantined - every measure to keep him safe wasn't taken? Yet he got it. Why? Because no one can be put fully into isolation. Everyone he came into contact with brought him in contact with everyone they came in contact with, and so on. That's the way this works. This self-isolation BS is not sensical and the efforts to do that have slowed the virus but not stopped it, but they have crippled our means of producing and taking care of our families.

"Bc staying a live and healthy is more important" [insert what it's more important than here]. You can use that argument for anything. Movies? Sure. Sports. Why not. Grocery stores? Well, they have to work because we want to eat, right (think about that, and realize just how insane it is to make the clerk at Walgreens work but not allow the clerk at the comic shop to do the same).

Truly, when it comes down to the essence of this problem, individuals must be empowered to make the choice of when they can get back to life. Not you. Not Dr. Fauci. Individuals. Day 1 of movie theater opening, will I be there with my kids in tow? Not likely. But I respect those who are ready to move forward with their lives and trust them to make that choice.

The world recovered from the Spanish Flu. It will recover from this, though we may be far poorer and more hungry than our modern, comfortable minds can comprehend because we sheltered in place, in fear, for far too long and let our systems grind to a halt out of nothing but irrational fear of something we now know isn't the threat we thought it was.

And I really want to see Tenent. So please, everything, open back up.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 5/15/2020, 5:30 AM
Everything is going to depend on how bad of a spike we see in cases from reopening. Do we see what was happening in New York happen elsewhere, where the hospital system was on the verge of being overrun? (Remove New York from the data, where the outbreak was so bad and counted as so many of the US’s cases before they got a handle on it, and the rest of the country has yet to reach a plateau... most of the US is still on the upward curve... so things could still go very badly.)

If not, then theaters will probably be left alone to try and stay open. Theaters take up big footprints which mean big leases though, and some have already begun to go under thanks to being closed this long. A lot more will follow if there are no crowds until next year, and the total possible box office that can be achieved is going to drop along with those closures. At some point, holding out for big theatrical money may be unrealistic.

Regardless, however, WB is going to have to make the decision soon... they need to ramp up a very expensive ad campaign for “Tenet”, which most of the film going audience knows next to nothing about.

LNBfett12
LNBfett12 - 5/15/2020, 5:31 AM
I love Chris Nolan. He’s up there as one of my favorite directors ever. But c’mon...just move the damn movie already. Unless of course it’s 100% the studio playing these games, but I thought I read somewhere that he had a large influence on the move too...?

Either way...can’t wait for 2021!
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/15/2020, 5:32 AM
Nolan is being stubborn
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 5/15/2020, 8:00 AM
@BlackBeltJones

I don’t know. The movie could have a low opening but pretty much dominate the screens for however many weeks.

Guaranteed there will be distancing orders. Sports will prolly start trying to come back, too.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/15/2020, 8:05 AM
@regularmovieguy - I love movies but even I’m apprehensive about going back too early. I know folks who have the mindset of movie theaters being the last thing they want to return to when stuff reopens. I think. Nolan is so fixated on the idea of movies being this grand communal experience that will reinvigorate people coming together, but when you weigh against the potential dangers it’s risky.

Sports with no fans will be weird but I’ll take it. I wouldn’t open theaters until fall. See what everything looks like during the summer with small shops, salons, parks and barbershops open during that time.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 5/15/2020, 8:29 AM
@BlackBeltJones

This whole thing is going on a day-by-day basis. My state of Ohio just opened today...my roommate is a bartender and they're going to be serving people with restrictions in place.

Nobody knows if this is a good idea or bad idea or straight up stupid idea. I expect OH and whatever states open in the next few weeks will see spikes in cases. But we have to gradually open these businesses back up.

A lot of movie theaters are already feeling the heat. I think the big guys like AMC and Cinemark will be okay, maybe. I just don't think anyone knows where we'll be at in two weeks let alone two months in July.
rexlincoln
rexlincoln - 5/15/2020, 6:20 AM
Here in the UK it seems like everything's slowly going back to normal. I'm being dragged back into work next month.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/15/2020, 1:33 PM
I was just thinking how we were supposed to have news this week of whether or not Tenet would end up changing it's release date and so far nada. And tbh around this month and days it is when we would get the 2nd trailer after the first one came out in December. There haven't been any TV spots either.

I think it will and it should. The cinema experience won't disappear but it has to open it has to be slowly.
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