Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfter a months-long industry shutdown due to the COVID-19 crisis, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is breathing new life into Italy’s cinemas, where the film is getting off to a solid start.The watershed blockbuster pulled in €403,000 ($476,000) from 791 Italian screens on its first day, Aug.
26, selling more than 57,000 tickets. It’s the first encouraging box office result in the country since the Italian government allowed cinemas to reopen in June.
Driven by “Tenet,” roughly half of the country’s screens are now operational.It’s fitting for the time-bending thriller, which was partly shot in Italy, to be playing in 70MM format at the Cinema Ritrovato Lumière in the central Italian city of Bologna,.
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