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When talking about Tenet with a lot of my friends it's often a case of 'I'll wait until something better to go back to the cinema'.
This is not likely...Blockbusters typically make their most money in the first 2-3 weeks of release. However - given the new climate - blockbuster films are now expecting to play over a much longer period of time. Warner are giving Tenet a full 2 and a half months before the next 'Big Film.' It's not a sprint these days, it's a marathon. The hope is that Tenet can post $10-20m in the USA for another 8 weeks and another $30-40m internationally till either Black Widow or Bond comes along....
The question then being, who exactly will blink first? Bond or Black Widow?
Either one is set to be the next tentpole going up to the slaughter....All signs point to the Widow bailing and Bond going out fighting. In their article today covering the matter, The Hollywood Reporter said: 'There are rumors that Disney and Marvel's Black Widow could vacate its Nov. 6 release date because of concerns over the state of the box office. One event pic that's determined to stay on the calendar so far is MGM's James Bond installment No Time to Die, set for Nov. 20.'
This is the strongest argument I've seen so far.
Releasing the film in November would potentially be no different to releasing in February, June or November 2021. It's better to get the film in November, where it'll play in theatres till Spring 2021. The only thing cutting into it's screen capacity is Wonder Woman and Dune which aren't due till late December. Also, one of those films will inevitably move....
If I was being super cautious, I would bump NTTD another 3 months to either 5th or 12th February 2021. Currently, Dr Fauci is confident that a vaccine will be ready by the end of the year and that extra bump would give Eon enough time to gage the situation theatrically....Plus, they had February earmarked for this year before moving. It's a good date and yielding great success for Black Panther, Deadpool and Fifty Shades of Grey.
It may not make any difference fundamentally, but it could give Eon just a tiny bit more confidence. Personally, I would do it if I was them....Plus, Bond on Valentine's Day makes world's of sense:
We now have the answer:
Tenet is going towards a second domestic weekend of $6.75 million to $7 million.
Tenet will not be joining the club of films to have a bigger second weekend than opening weekend. Even with the current pandemic.
Same here. If it has to move I hope it's sometime in Spring, but I have no idea how many movies are set to release in that time-frame, I'm rather ignorant on the matter as I haven't been following any movie news outside of these boards.
https://deadline.com/2020/09/after-we-collided-international-box-office-social-media-voltage-pictures-1234575942/
Says Voltage President and COO Jonathan Deckter, “Our success in the UK is a testament to the power of a strategic grassroots social campaign that spoke directly to our film’s target audience in the forum they prefer. Traditional release marketing will always have its place, but as far as Afternators are concerned, they live and breathe social.”
[...] In a world where capacity restrictions are still in force during the COVID era, the performance is impressive. Deckter explains that the film was originally eyeing an April/May overseas release, but then pushed to October 2 before shifting that scenario when Wonder Woman 1984 took the same date (the WB film moved again just yesterday). “We had a group Zoom with the European distributors in late June — just after Wonder Woman declared October 2 — and we had a big decision to make, push back or move forward. All of the European distributors saw a gap in the market and made the case to go early September and we agreed. The release pattern on this film was always to have international lead the charge since the first film out performed the U.S. by 400%.”
So what does this have to do with the new Bond film NTTD...???????????????????????
It's an update on the current box office, and an example of strategic marketing and distribution consideration.
All of which is very relevant to NTTD.
Tenet may have stumbled, but other films are doing okay, if not better than expected.
Although NTTD and After are entirely different franchises and audiences, it is interesting to note the positive effect marketing to the target audience has had, and some fans feel Bond hasn't always done that recently.
Actually I prefer the 1987 version myself all others these days is TOTAL CRAP !
LOL NTTD grabbing it......lols
With 70% of theaters now opened, the total box office at the US this weekend failed to reach $15 million, meaning there's not enough box office intake to cover exhibitors' operating expenses.
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/tenet-6-7-million-total-box-office-is-under-15-million-theaters-hurt-1234586104/
https://deadline.com/2020/09/gerard-butler-greenland-movie-july-opening-date-1202956851/
There is now no new wide releases of any kind in the USA until Honest Thief on October 9th.
Aren't all of his films disasters?
Only Greenland and Geostorm. ;-)
That's VERY rich coming from you.
Tomorrow Never Dies was ok
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/black-widow-release-date-delay-soul-disney-plus-1234769426/
This makes No Time To Die the next big budget film to arrive in cinemas.
Sorry. Bad joke
Carry on.............
I wish this joke wasn't so possible to actually happen. If they keep on pushing this film and things don't get better, we might get a November 2021 release date first, then a November 2022 one next. It's just starting to feel like an endless cycle with this movie.
True. I imagine they'd aim sooner, though if delayed again. Possibly February 2021?
They'll have to hurry if they want a February release, as this is likely where Black Widow will move to.
That said, cinemas are still closed where I live with no opening in sight. I almost wish a Blu-ray release were an option at this point.
In a perfect world we would have gotten Danny Boyle's B25 in 2018 or 2019 and now EON would be writing the script for Fukunaga's B26 starring a new Bond actor to be released on 2022 for the 60th anniversary.
I don’t know about that. A lot of the rumblings I heard about Boyle’s Bond didn’t sound very appealing to me.