Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is on track for a $30-$32 million box office opening weekend. Friday numbers were between $16-$17 million for the Legendary/Warner Bros’ joint venture. IMAX sales are doing a lot of the heavy lifting, currently accounting for 22%-24% of the overall number. All the film ne...
Read MorePretend I said something clever about spice because Warner Bros. has released a new Dune trailer. An adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, Dune stars Timothée Chalamet as hero Paul Atreides, with Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, and J...
Read MoreIt turns out Wonder Woman 1984 really was the canary in the coalmine. In a press release earlier today, Warner Bros. Picture Group announced that it will be releasing its entire slate of films in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, as it is doing with the upcoming DCEU movie. Each film w...
Read MoreThat didn’t take long. Reacting to Dune moving to its October 1, 2021 release date, The Batman has shifted its premiere to March 4, 2022. (Sidebar: I once read a Batman comic where one of the Riddler’s riddles was, “What is a soldier’s least favorite day?” The answer was “March 4th.”) ...
Read MoreAs 007 goes, so goes the cinematic landscape. In the wake of No Time to Die’s latest delay, Cineworld has decided to close all is theaters beginning October 8; this includes Cineworld theaters in the UK and Regal Cinemas in the United States. While losing some major end-of-year releases like the n...
Read MoreThe Kwisatz Haderach has finally arrived, as the first full trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is online. For years, this long-in-development adaptation has become almost mythical to fans, as everyone had an idea of what it might look like, whether they had read the books, seen the Sci-Fi Cha...
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