Still a good performance for a time when about half the theaters in the country are closed including all the ones in the major markets. And yes, this definitely would have opened to $100+ million pre pandemic while Tenet would probably open safely in the $60 - $80 million range.
This would go with what I posted about earlier this week when I looked for daily numbers and didn't find them. I was wondering if Warners were going to try to pretend that everything that happened Tuesday to Sunday was their 2nd weekend number.
I decided to check to see what Tenet has been doing since this past weekend and after visiting both box office mojo and the-numbers.com it appears that Warners have not been releasing their numbers. Tenet has not been on the daily charts. New Mutants have been #1, Unhinged #2 and Bill & Ted...
Considering how many days worth of screenings were counted towards this weekend's total for Tenet $20 million is pretty small. Probably not much bigger than New Mutants last week when it actually $7million over 3 days and New Mutants wouldn't have been expected to open anywhere near as high as...
1. Tenet $20.2 million
2. New Mutants $2.9 million
3. Unhinged $1.67 million
4. The Personal History of David Copperfield $361 thousand
5. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run $345 thousand
2 - 5 are 3 day numbers, the article for deadline didn't specify if Tenet was 3 day or 4 day numbers.