Commentary: 'Black Widow,' 'West Side Story' postponed again, this time to 2021. Theaters are stuck and closing again
Like so much else in 2020 that doesn't involve a couch and a remote, American moviegoing has become a hotly debated matter of risk and reward in a seriously flattened segment of the escapism economy.
The time-inversion Christopher Nolan thriller "Tenet," which opened in the U.S. Sept. 3, was supposed to be the cavalry riding, in reverse, to the rescue.
It didn't work out that way.
After four strained weeks and few other movies on offer, "Tenet" has made $36 million in the U.S. and Canada. It has pulled in a pandemically respectable $220 million in other countries - the countries that have managed this crisis more aggressively, effectively and humanely
