Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” did not live up to pre-pandemic expectations, but the filmmaker is still “thrilled” with how his movie performed at the box office.
“Warner Bros. released ‘Tenet,’ and I’m thrilled that it has made almost $350 million,” the director said in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times while promoting author Tom Shone’s book “The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Marvels, and Mysteries of Christopher Nolan.”
However, Nolan is concerned that the studios are learning the wrong lessons from the experimental rollout during a pandemic.
“But I am worried that the studios are drawing the wrong conclusions from our release — that rather than looking at where the film has worked well and how that can provide them with much-needed revenue, they’re looking at where it hasn’t lived up to pre-COVID expectations and will start using that as an excuse to make exhibition take all the losses from the pandemic instead of getting in the game and adapting — or rebuilding our business, in other words,” he said.