Christopher Vourlias With Nigerian cinemas set to open Aug. 28 for the first time in more than four months, local exhibitors are hoping that Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” will help a reeling box office return to its pre-pandemic heights.Nolan’s mind-bending, time-twisting thriller, which Warner Bros.
is also releasing in South Africa, Ghana and East Africa on Friday, will be the first test of whether Nigerian movie-goers are ready to return to cinemas that have been shuttered since late March, when coronavirus began spreading in Africa’s most populous nation.Despite sluggish word of mouth around Nolan’s latest blockbuster earlier this year, a marketing blitz by Warner Bros.
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