You’ll recall that back in December, Christopher Nolan expressed his dissatisfaction with Warner Bros’ decision to release all of its 2021 movies on HBO Max for a 31-day period at the same time they played in theaters, even going so far as to call HBO Max the “worst streaming service.”
Needless to say this factored into Nolan’s decision to jump from the WB ship, but the director and the studio were having issues even before that.
As a proponent of the big screen experience, Nolan argued with WB about releasing Tenet in theaters, with the latter being concerned about releasing a tentpole picture at a time when many movie theaters were closed due to the pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines were still a ways off.