In the wake of 13 Oscar nominations for Oppenheimer, and to celebrate the upcoming big screen release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two on March 1, Christopher Nolan decided to make it a big cinema party: He’s having Warner Bros. re-release his pandemic feature Tenet in 70MM Imax, Imax, Imax digital and 70M for one week only on Feb. 23 in U.S. cities and select overseas markets.
The reissue of Tenet will include exclusive footage from Dune: Part Two, which was actually shot in Imax. Tickets go on sale for Tenet today, while Dune: Part Two tickets go on sale tomorrow.
Nolan said, “Seeing the way audiences responded to our large format presentations of Oppenheimer, I’m thrilled that Warner Bros. is giving audiences a chance to see Tenet the way it was intended to be seen, on the largest IMAX and large format film screens, and I’m honored to have our movie warm up the film projectors for Denis’ jaw- dropping Dune: Part Two.”
Villeneuve said, “As an audience member, I have always valued Chris’s forward thinking when it comes to shooting on film and especially in large formats. As directors, we are completely in sync; on Dune, we shot several sequences for IMAX, and I simply loved it, so for Dune: Part Two, we pushed it to 100 percent of the movie.”
Tenet will play in such venues as AMC Lincoln Square, Universal CityWalk IMAX, TCL Chinese IMAX and AMC Metreon on 70mm IMAX film.
Tenet was a driver in getting a majority of cinemas reopened during the latter part of Covid in September 2020, however, box office metro hubs NYC, LA and San Francisco were unable to reopen. The movie ultimately made $58.5M in U.S./Canada and $365.3M WW.