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I agree with that -- but I do really want to see it in the theater, so I would prefer that it be pushed.
Expecting 80% of theaters to be open by mid-July is just a fantasy.
I assume that the chain theaters easily represent 80% of theaters.
I don't see them opening without NY and LA.
When thousands of people in Los Angeles ignore it and do what they want, how will they enforce the stay at home orders? They can't lock that many people up and at that point, there's not much they can threaten people with. When the rest of the country will be reopened in some form relatively soon and people are doing what they want, how does LA tell businesses that they can't open too?And LA isn’t opening before August, so I think that’s that.
My guess is that if they were announcing the bad news of a date change, they'd do it late in the day on Friday so I think they're going for July.(1) Announce a date change on the end;
or
(2) Confirm that WB is actually seriously going to try to release this on July 19 and begin the final marketing push.
We'll see what happens.
Vacation days have no meaning for me anymore so I just realized that today is probably the last day before the Memorial Day weekend starts. Now I'm thinking that today could be the day that Warners does the announce-bad-news-and-run move that usually takes place on a Friday.My guess is that if they were announcing the bad news of a date change, they'd do it late in the day on Friday so I think they're going for July.
It won’t be streaming only but it won’t be July, no matter Nolan’s stated preference.
He wants it to screen on film: 35mm, 70mm, and IMAX 70mm film. Those formats cost the most to exhibit a film in and require an infrastructure that is now dormant. It adds a tremendous cost to the release, which in normal times wouldn’t be an issue. But if theaters open this summer, we’re gonna be seeing limitations like 25% of seating capacity only. And there’s simply no viable way to screen actual film prints with that as a ceiling on earnings. The cost of making the print, shipping it to the theater, taking the projectors out of mothballs and the re-installation and maintenance efforts, plus the cost of hiring projectionists, simply isn’t recoverable at 25% capacity.
Josh, I don't understand how in the U.S. that Mr Nolan could accomplish his goal, that you noted, of having Tenet being screened "on film: 35mm, 70mm, and IMAX 70mm film", since almost every film projector that was previously being
I mean, it's still a way off, but that seems pretty unlikely....Warner Bros needs at least 80% of the world's theaters to be open, including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco (which rep 25% of a pic's opening weekend), in order to keep Tenet on its opening release date.