Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ nears $150 million mark worldwide

LOS ANGELES: Christopher Nolan’s latest film espionage thriller ‘Tenet’ is well on its way to collecting $100 million at the box office internationally.

The film opened with a disappointing $20 million dollars in the domestic North American market. The film is the first major Hollywood film to be released in cinemas in the past six months.

Its worldwide total currently stands at $146 million and will need to make several times that figure to recover the cost of production. Nolan is known for blockbusters that have earned over one billion dollars but this time it will be a challenge.

The espionage thriller will need to earn $650 million just to break even and as cinemas continue to reopen, more films will challenge Tenet.

Christopher Nolan is known for blockbusters like The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk. 

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Tenet features John David Washington in the lead role. His character is tasked with saving the world from a war that a character says is worse than Armageddon.

The movie also stars Kenneth Branagh, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia and Michael Caine.

Tenet has received positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a rating of 74 per cent and the critical consensus reads, “A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production.”