A little clearer7 Sep 2020 21:57
Tenet - the Warner Bros. (NYSE:T) thriller that may be the biggest film release of this pandemic year, in terms of stakes - debuted in the U.S. with $20.2M, with one day remaining in the long Labor Day weekend.
That figure is hard to judge against any historical comparisons - with a subset of U.S. theaters open, and those that are open enforcing capacity restrictions.
But it marked a triumph of sorts in even making it to theaters after multiple delays.
Internationally, Tenet has earned $126M over two weekends, making its global total $146.2M so far. And in China, where theaters were able to reopen more quickly, it grossed $30M over the weekend, trailing only Chinese war epic The Eight Hundred.
Meanwhile, it's an IMAX-friendly film and there wasn't much equivocation from IMAX, which noted the film drew $11.1M in its theaters, the company's biggest September weekend ever. IMAX delivered 14% of the overall global box office despite accounting for just 1% of screens.
The $11.1M brings Tenet to $16.3M total in IMAX theaters, which are imposing at least 50% capacity restrictions in most markets worldwide.
Far behind Tenet at No. 2 was The New Mutants (NYSE:DIS), with $2.9M in grosses in its second week.