I think WB position Tenet and Christopher Nolan to welcome moviegoers back to the theatre again, so it won't be postponed.
Though I'm afraid it won't be the only Cinema savior film. Disney's candidate is Pixar's Soul.

Anytime after this pandemic settles down is a good bet for this.

Tenet is a wild card. I think they’re much more likely to leave that where it is because if it disappoints, it’s an original film and they can write it off pretty easily.

I feel like what will happen is that some theatres start showing films again, then there's another outbreak because of it, and then other theatres shut down. Hollywood realizes they're going to lose a ton of money by trying to open and then having to cancel movies in the middle of their run, and just decide to release everything on streaming + VOD until 2021.

The movie's budget is OVER 200 MILLION DOLLARS! they'll be treating this like all big budget movies. If by June things are not back to normal than it's going to get pushed back for sure.

If Tenet releases in December it has a decent chance at a BP nom. In July that chance is reduced to 0.

And if the situation doesn't change the BP lineup will be:

Bad Boys for Life
Sonic
Birds of Prey
The Invisible Man
Call of the Wild
Dolittle
Onward
The Boy 2

, provided Dune moves off 2020.

Not zero if Tenet get Palm d'Or at Cannes Film Festival that is expected to postpone to early July. But the committee has to decide that the film is suit for main competition. In 2015 Cannes committee pushed Mad Max to out of competition, many expected that if it's in competition it can win Palm d'Or and had higher chance at winning Oscars best picture.

I doubt it, it looks basic as hell.

This moves again to 10/2/20.

Ugh I'm just tired at this point lol

Yeah surprised that WB moved two of its tent poles when they have been pushing for reopening of Cinemas

Why move this unless they're expecting TENET to flop?

This is irritating as if the movie was in the can then moving it summer was useless. They should've just stuck with November 2019 uggggh

I don't even know how the release schedule looks right now, and while October has shown it can produce big openings and blockbusters recently, why not go for a November/December release instead? Assuming we're all still here by that time (2020...) and things are mostly normal regarding theaters being opened, I'd think people would "swarm" (as much as they can assuming capacity limits) to theaters over the holidays.

Unless they're thinking October over November/December in case COVID-19 spikes in the fall, potentially killing the box-office again in the winter months... Or some constitutional crisis beginning if Trump loses the election but refutes it, causing mass rioting. You know, just normal #2020 events now.

They are trying to avoid Black Widow and Bond, and I guess they don't want to move Dune.

Yeah I think Black Widow and Bond should be moving based on WW and not the other way around. I do see Corpse's point, I am not even sure how October will look like, its not the biggest month for movies and even with COVID-19 situation the more people go back to their routine I expect their workloads will also increase so keeping this in November/December would have been the better option.

I would assume the WW move is to see if it's a good idea for The Batman to stay there the following year.

With the current atmosphere it will never be an apples to apples comparison. Movie going habits would change drastically by next year for sure.

I would say with 99% confidence this is getting pushed back, most likely to mid-December in DUNE's date.

Theaters should only go up from here. If the vaccines actually do arrive and work around 11/1 as discussed, WW84 opening in mid-December could be poised to make some serious money.

This is what WB should do RN:

WW84 - 12/18/2020 ft. THE BATMAN teaser trailer
DUNE - 5/21/2021
GODZILLA vs. KONG - 6/25/2020
THE SUICIDE SQUAD - 8/6/2021
ELVIS - 10/1/2021 ft. THE BATMAN theatrical trailer *also debuts on MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL*
FANTASTIC BEASTS - 11/12/2021
THE BATMAN - 12/17/2021

2022
SUMMER
THE MATRIX REBOOTED
BLACK ADAM

WINTER
NOLAN COMEBACK MOVIE

WB would really screw theater owners over if they pushed this.