After months of shuttered cinemas and film releases shoved to video-on-demand (or delayed), it almost feels odd to be writing a box office report. Especially one for the United States, where there are big states where most of the cinemas are still not open. While drive-ins have picked up some of the slack, bigger movies are still not seeing the results they might were this a normal situation. Which explains why Tenet topped the charts with $4.7 million in its third week of release.
Christopher Nolan's new action thriller, which had been the great hope for the return of blockbusters to cinemas, has struggled to make a big impact with screens across California and New York still closed. After three weeks, the movie's US total stands at $36 million, a small fragment of the $250 million it has earned across the world.
Second place was The New Mutants, which took in $1.6 million (with $17.7 million domestic total total), while third was new entry, kidnapping thriller Infidel, which earned $1.5 million.
Returning veteran Unhinged, which has been on release for six weeks already, added $1.3 million for a $15.7 million running total, while The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run, also now out for six weeks, took $210,000.
Armando Iannucci's The Personal History Of David Copperfield earned $150,000 in its fourth week, while Words On Bathroom Walls slipped to seventh on $149,425. New post-World War II thriller The Secrets We Keep, starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Chris Messina, landed eighth with $89,955 on very limited cinema release (like most of the other titles, it is more widely available to home audiences). Finally, My Brothers' Crossing took in $6,445, releasing on just 55 screens.