'Tenet' has been released despite the pandemic

After months of delays, concerns, handwringing and re-setting, a Hollywood studio released a major movie in theaters around the world at some stage in a global pandemic.

And thousands and thousands of humans got here to see it.

“Tenet,” the time-bending Christopher Nolan thriller that Warner Bros. had been hoping would kickstart the movie commercial enterprise after a months-long hiatus, grossed $53 million in countries around the world over the weekend. Filmgoers from South Korea to France, from Canada to Taiwan, grew to become out wearing masks in socially distanced theaters, reworking the most enormous film launch since lockdowns started in March into an early hit.