Dune has already surpassed Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 at the domestic B.O. All of this culminated in Warners building Dune into Villeneuve’s best domestic opening of his career (beating Blade Runner 2049‘s $32.7M), and the filmmaker’s highest grossing move of his career, both worldwide, and domestic (beating Blade Runner 2049‘s $259.3M WW). Warner Bros, knowing that they were sitting on a great movie during the pandemic for Oscar season, started screening to voters and the press well in advance of its Venice and TIFF world premieres this fall. The sequel is currently scheduled to play cinemas on Oct.

having already greenlit a theatrical exclusive sequel for Dune 2 which will cover the second half of Herbert’s 1965 novel and the continuing adventures of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides. While Legendary and Villeneuve wanted a theatrical release, ultimately both sides were made whole by WarnerMedia in keeping the film’s theatrical and HBO Max 2021 release intact.Ĭlose to a year later after Villeneuve’s column, a great peace between the filmmaker and the studio prevails with Warner Bros. In truth, the horse left the barn for the slaughterhouse.” AT&T’s John Stankey said that the streaming horse left the barn. might just have killed the Dune franchise. Warner Bros.’ decision means Dune won’t have the chance to perform financially in order to be viable and piracy will ultimately triumph.

Streaming can produce great content, but not movies of Dune’s scope and scale. It is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently bearing an astronomical debt of more than $150 billion,” and that “streaming alone can’t sustain the film industry as we knew it before COVID. There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here. 10, writing that “With this decision AT&T has hijacked one of the most respectable and important studios in film history. When Warners first announced its HBO Max-theatrical plan for 2021, Villeneuve protested the maneuver in a Varietycolumn on Dec. The movie had 73 minutes shot in Imax, and the large format exhibitor drove 22% of the movie’s $41M opening weekend ticket sales, and 20% of its overall domestic total 13% of the pic’s overall global tally. Warner Bros, as Deadline first told you, is injecting some extra steroids into the all-star ensemble, booking it back into Imax auditoriums on Dec. While Dune was on HBO Max during its first 31 days in theaters, it’s now exclusively theatrical, currently playing in 1,312 theaters with a Thanksgiving weekend outlook of $2.26M over three days and $3.2M since Wednesday which will bring its running U.S./Canada total to $102.4M by Sunday. Todd McCarthy's Films Of The Year: It Was The Worst Of Times Off And Onscreen In 2021

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