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It'll probably be years before we get any film that makes a billion dollars. Survivors of the Spanish Flu pandemic spoke about how it actually took up to three years for people to feel safe to actually go out and congregate. That nothing really returned to "normal" until roughly 1923.
I wouldn't say it's locked yet. I bought tickets for two different showings and the date was pushed maybe two days later.
I had the same thing happen to me. I am more optimistic this time as they are pushing ahead wiyh the knowledge of how COVID has changed public opinion and the way we live. I believe the first delay was partly because of all the unknowns involved.
“The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation updated its projections on Friday, estimating 410,451 deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. by Jan. 1. The new projection is more than twice the current death toll, which stands at approximately 187,200, according to Johns Hopkins University. The institute also projects a dramatic increase in the daily death count, which could rise to as high as 3,000 per day by December.”
https://www.google.it/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-09-04/key-model-predicts-more-than-410-000-coronavirus-deaths-in-the-us-by-january?context=amp
Tenet US opening weekend: between $9,750,000 to $10,500,000.
Tenet second international weekend: $52,000,000.
Tenet current word-wide total: approximately $150,000,000.
UPDATE: Warner Bros. has finally released the official numbers: Tenet has grossed an estimated $20.2M through Labor Day weekend domestically (including all preview & Canadian grosses).
That is a 4 day domestic opening weekend of $20,2 million, instead of the normal 3 days. If you remove the Canadian box office results, Tenet has barely grossed $10 million at the US box office this weekend. It was projected to open at $25 million.
I was suprised, that EON/MGM/Universal decided to start the NTTD campaign mid-week, not knowing the US- and China-numbers from Tenet.
Only the US and Brazil are running rampant with COVID. I know people don’t want politics gumming up the works in this thread, but the reason why these two countries are out of control with this pandemic is because they’re run by neofascists who don’t give enough of a damn, if at all. Stay safe, my fellow Americans and our Brazilian friends.
I spoke about the BoxOffice-numbers, not Corona-numbers.
And the canadian numbers are part of the US-BoxOffice-numbers.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases
Just enter countries.
We don’t even know if theaters will be open by November and its pretty much a given that with colder temperatures the situation will be worse than now, especially in Europe. Those numbers are depressing and I don’t see NTTD coming out under these circumstances.
Thank you mate.
So what does it matter what a film does in these pandemic times ?
Hopefully TENETS failure will lead to the release online or straight to DVD of other films .........
Funny enough, you answered your own question - because box office success is a great indicator of what's to come and these same returns may very well shape the future of moviegoing and cinemas as a whole. No need to bring politics into this and there's certainly no reason, only four posts in, to be so combative over something so logical.
Because big budgets need to make their money back and if it bombs, Bond films find themselves in jeopardy. Personally, I want my first impression of something I care about to be in a cinema, and if that can't be so, high definition, not DVD.
Really? I was hoping to see it on my phone at 2x speed and in pan/scan
What do you think DVD'S and blu rays play in ? HIGH DEFINITION TV'S
DVDs aren't high definition, you're missing his subjective point and arguing something irrelevant.
No question it would be an exhilarating thing experiencing the new Bond on a screen the size of your phone and the prospect of sped-up chipmunk voices sure is tantalizing, but it does bring to mind bad memories of the Bond team’s attempt at comedy with that cringeworthy Spectre promo featuring a baby-voiced Daniel Craig.
Interesting point old chap.
But what do you say to the fact that No Time to Die was filmed on Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2 G-Series Lenses with an anamorphic lens on a four perforation 35 millimeter Kodak film with a 2x squeeze on the native ratio for a total resolution of about 5600x3620 pixels? Or what about the sequences filmed on Imax 70mm horizontal film with 15 perforations and close to a 12k resolution with an aperture of 70.41 mm × 52.63 mm?
Will that show up on my motion smoothing LED high definition tv with a dvd player?
Trust me you will never know the difference considering the film will not play long at theaters anyway and you will be watching the DVD/TV Versions for years to come after that........
I am trusting you that there is no difference between dvd and imax 70mm film and the film will look just as good on my 4k tv with vcr
Personally I will be watching the Blu-ray and/or UHD version for years to come.
Call it a geek thing, but Bond is a special enough subject for some of us that the theater experience is part of what makes us fans. I can still recall the venue I saw the film, who I was with, my impressions at the time, and in some cases what I did afterward. I can't really say that with many things on home video, streaming or so much else that is so readily available these days.
While this could go in the general COVID-19 thread, I will post this here since there maybe NTTD implications.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54081131
“Social gatherings of more than six people will be illegal in England from Monday - with some exemptions - amid a steep rise in coronavirus cases.
A new legal limit will ban larger groups meeting anywhere socially indoors or outdoors, No 10 said.
But it will not apply to schools, workplaces or Covid-secure weddings, funerals and organised team sports.”
Apparently (IMO), this is not a done deal yet, and that details are pending. Does anyone have additional information on this, or how it may impact theaters in the UK?