Warner Bros. announces rollout release plans for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Warner Bros. is making sure that Christopher Nolan's new film TENET will be in theatres this summer, no matter what it takes. The film had originally been scheduled for release on July 17th, but due to the continuing pandemic it was first bumped to July 31st, then August 12th, then recently removed from the release schedule entirely. Now Warner Bros. has revealed how they're going to get this movie out into the world.

Starting on Wednesday, August 26th, TENET will be receiving a rollout release in over 70 countries, reaching select cities in the United States on Thursday, September 3rd. Here's how the rollout is expected to go – 

On August 26th, TENET will open in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the UK. On August 27th, it reaches Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Lebanon, Malaysia, Middle East, New Zealand, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and United Arab Emirates. East Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Vietnam get the film on August 28th. Kuwait, Qatar, and the US will see TENET on September 3rd. On September 10th, it will reach Azerbaijan, CIS Others, Kazakhstan, and Russia, and Japan gets the film on September 18th.

Warner Bros. has not yet set release dates for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, or China. The film's 150 minute running time may be an issue in China, which currently has a 120 minute limit in place for theatrical screenings.

TENET is "an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage" and has the following synopsis: 

John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet.” Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.

John David Washington's Protagonist is an operative for an organization called Tenet, but is said to have a "very warm emotional accessibility". He is joined in the cast by Robert Pattison as Neil, "slightly rascally character who operates within what they refer to as this twilight world of operatives in different secret services"; Kenneth Branagh as an Russian oligarch who is "unremittingly dark" and "a pitiless, avaricious, mean, desperate, terrifyingly dangerous individual"; Elizabeth Debicki as a character who develops an "ambiguous and complicated" relationship with Protagonist and happens to be the estranged wife of Branagh's character; and a "completely unrecognizable" Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Nolan produced the film with Emma Thomas. The cast also includes Dimple Kapadia, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Himesh Patel, Martin Donovan, and Denzil Smith.