And no filmmaker in recent memory has trained their audience as well as Christopher Nolan. People don’t just show up to Nolan’s movies—although they do, in droves. (With the exception of the pandemic-hampered Tenet,

Those 10 film screens alone had a staggering $70,000 per theater average, one of the highest of the year and usually the bragging rights of acclaimed arthouse movies playing on only four screens. Ten years after “Interstellar” was given a film release as a special exception at time when its studio,