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Audiences will have to wait a little longer to see\u00a0Christopher Nolan<\/a>‘s action thriller\u00a0Tenet<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Warner Bros. announced Thursday that the highly anticipated film will hit U.S. theaters in mid-August, rather than late July. As pointed out by to\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, <\/em>the news comes after multiple states\u2014including Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida\u2014reported alarming\u00a0spikes in coronavirus cases. In light of the surges, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he\u00a0was pulling movie theaters<\/a> from the list of businesses that are allowed to reopen under Phase 4. Officials in Los Angeles, the largest moviegoing market in the country, have yet to announce when theaters will resume business, leading many studios to reconsider scheduled release dates.<\/p>\n Tenet <\/em>was originally set to premiere on July 17, but was pushed back to July 31<\/a>\u00a0to give U.S. theaters time to reopen.\u00a0Warner Bros. now says the film will drop on Wednesday, Aug. 12.<\/p>\n “Warner Bros. is committed to bringing <\/span>Tenet<\/em> to audiences in theaters, on the big screen, when exhibitors are ready and public health officials say it\u2019s time,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement.\u00a0“In this moment what we need to be is flexible, and we are not treating this as a traditional movie release. We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy.”<\/span><\/p>\n Tenet<\/em>\u00a0features an ensemble cast lead by John David Washington. Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson,\u00a0and\u00a0Kenneth Branagh\u00a0also appear in the film. Nolan has kept plot details to a minimum, but recently told Total Film<\/em><\/a> magazine that his intention was to smash audience’s expectations.<\/p>\n “<\/span>It\u2019s a film of great ambition and great scale that takes a genre, namely the spy film, and tries to take it into some new territory, and tries to take the audience on a ride they might not have had before, and might not be expecting. <\/span>We\u2019re looking at first and foremost giving the audience an incredible ride in the spy movie genre, but using the audience\u2019s facility with following the conventions of that genre to push it into some interesting and unexpected territory.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n