![]() ![]() The allure of the movie theater remains whether a piece of content is available at home or not." "This should be a very encouraging sign for theater owners. "What I think Warner's strategy has proven is that movie fans, by and large, will choose the movie theater experience when given the choice - particularly for movies like this," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore. It fared particularly well on large-format screens, with IMAX accounting for about $9 million in ticket sales. Moviegoers gave "Dune" an A- CinemaScore and critics (83% on Rotten Tomatoes) have praised the operatic sweep and visual craft of Villeneuve's film. have yet to confirm a sequel to "Dune," which chronicles a violent power shift on the desert planet Arrakis, where a valuable mineral called "spice" is harvested. Villeneuve's "Dune," which adapts only the first half of the book, stars Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Javier Bardem. "Dune" is the second big-screen attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's 1965 epic, following David Lynch's much derided 1984 version. Altogether, "Dune" added $47.4 million internationally for a global cumulative gross of $220.7 million. This weekend, it debuted with $21.6 million in China, where Legendary and Wanda handled distribution. ![]() (The studio didn't release streaming figures.) Coming into the weekend, "Dune," which first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, had already grossed $130 million internationally. Goldstein estimated the film would have debuted with approximately 20% more in box office had it not also been streaming simultaneously. "Once we get out of the pandemic, if we have a movie like this, clearly you'd want to go into theaters first. "This was a tremendous result as we're ramping out of the pandemic," said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. Pictures shows Jason Momoa in a scene from 'Dune.' (Warner Bros. Expectations had hovered closer to $30-35 million for "Dune." For now, the $165 million-budgeted "Dune" marks the best domestic opening for any of the studio's hybrid releases, surpassing the $31.7 debut of "Godzilla vs. has continued to maintain it will return to exclusive theatrical releases next year. "I strongly believe the future of cinema will be on the big screen, no matter what any Wall Street dilettante says," Villeneuve wrote in a lengthy statement to Variety last December. Villeneuve vehemently protested the decision. When the studio first charted that course for all its 2021 releases due to the pandemic, how the strategy would affect "Dune" - one of the year's most anticipated spectacles - was always one of the biggest question marks. launched the Legendary Entertainment production simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. Original movies are over-performing, despite box office slumpĭenis Villeneuve's "Dune" debuted with $40.1 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North America, drawing a large number of moviegoers to see the thundering sci-fi epic on the big screen despite it also being available to stream in homes. ![]()
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