• ‘Tenet’ snags $200 million globally, struggles at US box office

    ‘Tenet’ snags $200 million globally, struggles at US box office

    Christopher Nolan’s spy thriller “Tenet” had another lackluster weekend at the US box office despite raking in $207 million in global box office sales. The movie, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, generated a paltry $6.7 million in the US and Canada during its second weekend of release, dropping 29 percent compared to its …
  • Disney’s ‘Mulan’ off to slow box office start in China

    Disney’s ‘Mulan’ off to slow box office start in China

    “Mulan” pulled in soft box office sales on its opening day in China — a market where Disney had banked on raking in the big bucks. The live-action remake of the 1998 animated classic amassed just over $8 million on Friday, according to Chinese online ticketing platform Maoyan. That would put “Mulan,” which was expected …
  • Spy thriller ‘Tenet’ to be screened at Los Angeles drive-ins

    Spy thriller ‘Tenet’ to be screened at Los Angeles drive-ins

    Christoper Nolan’s spy thriller, ‘Tenet” is hitting Los Angeles drive-ins, granting fans who have been unable to see the film in the theater a reprieve. Initially, the $200 million flick, starring Robert Pattinson and John David Washington, was off limits at drive ins in any market where indoor cinemas remain dark, such as Los Angeles. …
  • Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ earns $20 million at box office

    Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ earns $20 million at box office

    Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — the first blockbuster film to enter the theaters following widespread lockdown orders — brought in an estimated $20.2 million through the holiday weekend in US and Canadian theaters. The movie’s Labor Day weekend release displayed the new realities for US theaters as Americans went to the movies en masse for the …
  • Why Christopher Nolan has become one of Hollywood’s surest bets

    Why Christopher Nolan has become one of Hollywood’s surest bets

    What better way to mark the 20th anniversary of Christopher Nolan’s groundbreaking “Memento” than with “Tenet,” the strangest movie rollout in memory? “Tenet” hit theaters Thursday — two days before “Memento” premiered in 2000 — where it landed in an alien theatergoing landscape of required masks and one-third capacity limits. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, …
  • ‘Awful’ sound quality in ‘Tenet’ divides Christopher Nolan fans

    ‘Awful’ sound quality in ‘Tenet’ divides Christopher Nolan fans

    The boffo global box office for “Tenet” is proof of the public appetite for Christopher Nolan’s abilities as a filmmaker, but as the film opens in more countries and, gradually, the United States, familiar questions are being raised about the director’s idiosyncratic approach to sound, and its impact on how much — or how little …
  • ‘Tenet’ will have early access US screenings starting Aug. 31

    ‘Tenet’ will have early access US screenings starting Aug. 31

    Moviegoers will get the chance in select cities to see Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” early, three days before its Thursday, Sept. 3, opening date. Warner Bros. is offering early access screenings on Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2. The announcement was made today by Jeff Goldstein, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Domestic Distribution. Goldstein said, “Warner Bros. …
  • George Clooney’s latest, ‘The Midnight Sky,’ headed to direct to Netflix

    George Clooney’s latest, ‘The Midnight Sky,’ headed to direct to Netflix

    George Clooney. He’s wrapping “The Midnight Sky.” It’s from a novel. It’s a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thing, whatever exactly that means. It’s stuff about a lone creature stuck in the Arctic looking for help from a spacecraft returning to Earth, which is about as tough as getting a cab in New York. And, forget the rocket, …
  • The historical importance of Princess Beatrice’s wedding bouquet

    The historical importance of Princess Beatrice’s wedding bouquet

    All civilization knows Princess Beatrice, daughter of dandy randy handy bandy Prince Andy, of whom we and Ghislaine won’t speak, just married businessman Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on Windsor’s Royal Lodge grounds. Because of the coronavirus, not Andrew, only 20 guests including Her Majesty. The wedding bouquet contained myrtle. In 1840, when Queen Victoria married Albert, …
  • Enough! Let America mask up and go to the movies again

    Enough! Let America mask up and go to the movies again

    It’s hot as Mars outside, and everybody wants to be sitting in a freezing movie theater watching a two-hour action flick and forgetting how much everything sucks. Says the government: Too bad! Despite our impressive progress on containing the coronavirus in New York, our sweaty citizens still can’t just put on a mask and sit …